Crewkerne 46 0 0 40 Congresbury 28 15 0 25 Old Cleeve 23 0 0 20 North Curry 23 0 0 20 Henstridge 23 0 0 20 Camel 23 0 0 20 Dulverton 11 10 0 10 Creech St Michael 9 4 0 8 Langford 4 12 0 4 Capton[205] 2 6 0 2 Whatever this strange unit represented, it formed the basis in these Manors of a reckoning wholly independent of the 'hides' or ploughlands of the Manor, and as clearly artificial as the system of hidation I have made it my business to explain. XV. 'WARA' The meaning of 'Wara' is made indisputable by the I.C.C. When land was an appurtenance, _quoad_ ownership, of a Manor in one township, but was assessed in another in which it actually lay, the land was said to be in the former, but its 'wara' in the latter. As this 'wara' was an integral part of the total assessment of the township, it had to be recorded, under its township, in the I.C.C. Here are the three examples in point: [HISTON.] De his xx. hidis jacet Warra de una hida et dimidia in hestitone de manerio cestreford. Hanc terram tenuit comes alanus [_sic_] et est appretiata in essexia (p. 40). [SHELFORD.] De his xx. hidis tenet petrus valonensis iii. hidas de firma regis in neueport.... Hæc terra est berewica in neueport, sed Wara jacet in grantebrigge syra (p. 49). [TRUMPINGTON.] De his vii. hidis [tenet] unus burgensis de grenteburga i. virgam. Et Warra jacet in trompintona, et terra in grantebrigga (p. 51). To these I may add a fourth instance, although in this case the name _wara_ does not occur: [BATHBURGAM.] De his vii. hidis tenet Picotus in manu regis dimidiam hidam et dimidiam virgam. Hæc terra jacet in cestreforda et ibi est appretiata xxx. sol. in essexia (p. 36). The lands at Histon and 'Bathburgam' were mere outlying portions of the royal Manor of Chesterford in Essex, and those at Shelford were a 'berewick' of the royal Manor of Newport, also in Essex. But they were all _assessed_ in Cambridgeshire, where they actually lay. So also we read under Berkshire (61_b_): 'Hæc terra jacet et appreciata est in Gratentun quod est in Oxenefordscire, et tamen dat scotum in Berchesire'. Again (203_b_) we read under Pertenhall: 'Hec terra sita est in Bedefordsire, set geldum et servitium reddit in Hontedunscyre'. A good instance of the same arrangement in another part of England is found in those Worcestershire Manors which were annexed as estates to Hereford, but which were assessed in those Worcestershire Hundreds where they actually lay (see p. 61).