Carlton was a large and populous village at this time, and appears to have been so from early Saxon times. It is supposed that the name is taken from the large number of “Ceorls,” or “Karls,”—as we should now say “Working-class people”—who lived there. Lake Lothing would furnish them with an easy passage to and from the sea, and when landed at Carlton the fish would be on the old Roman road leading to Beccles, Norwich, and Bury. Doubtless the herrings which Hugh de Montfort got from his farms in this parish were caught by fishermen living there. Fishing in small boats, by what we should now call “longshore-men,” had probably been carried on from these sea-side villages for hundreds of years before Domesday. But at this time the herring fishery had become established at Yarmouth, and the celebrated Free Fair was already held there during the autumn season. In the account of Gorleston we have noticed that 24 men belonging to that manor were said to be fishermen living away at Yarmouth. As there were as many as 70 burgesses in Yarmouth in the time of King Edward, and the town paid a large rent to the king, we may be quite safe in regarding Yarmouth as doing a large business in the herring trade even in late Saxon times. LIVE STOCK ON THE FARMS. Although the returns from the different estates in our neighbourhood are compiled on the same system in Domesday Book, they vary very much in respect of the details given, particularly in respect of the live stock on the manors and farms reported. This is no more than what we should expect. The returns of the live stock which they possessed would give the Conqueror very useful information as to the amount of taxation his subjects could bear, and he could hardly expect to get many trust-worthy returns on this head. In the accounts of many of the manors they are omitted entirely. In the accounts of others the return of live stock is very small in proportion to the size of the estate. It is probable that the stock owned by the tenants is omitted altogether. Pigs must have been the animals on which the lower class of tenants principally relied for their meat, but the pigs in most of the returns are very few, only eight on the King’s estate in Lowestoft. In the account of a large manor at Mutford—to which 40 tenants belonged—the return of live stock mentions 7 geese, 30 pigs, 30 goats, and two hives of bees. Some of the estates appear to have been very well stocked. On the farm of 40 acres belonging to the parish priest of Somerleyton, there was 1 horse, 4 cows, 5 pigs, and 33 sheep—besides the plough cattle. On the King’s farm in Lound, which was not half the size of his Lowestoft estate, there were 50 pigs. On a farm of 40 acres in Belton there was 1 horse, 2 geese, 7 pigs, 30 sheep, and 3 goats. In addition to these animals the owners of these estates had draught oxen for ploughing.