DOMESDAY SURVEY paying i shilling, while Cockley Cley measuring i league by i league pays IS. 2d. Even the measurements themselves are confusing, being expressed sometimes in leagues and occasionally in miles,^ while the value of the league is itself uncertain, Blomfield estimating it at 2 miles,*' while Professor Maitland inclines to 1 2 furlongs,^ and i mile has been suggested. Neither can we deduce any exact statements as to area from the measurements given. As Professor Maitland has shown,* they indicate shape rather than superficial measurement, and only afford the roughest guess at actual area. If we attempt to compare the actual geld paid with the number of assessed carucates we are in no better case. In some cases, especially upon the king's lands, the number of carucates is not given at all, and comparison with other manors shows that the relation between the number of carucates and the number of ploughs is a very uncertain one. We may, however, take a few instances at random. The adjacent vills of Fring, Shernborne, and Bircham are assessed equally for geld, all paying is. 3^. The lands held in each are as follows : — Fring ' Carucates Acres Valet T.R.E. 151^. Count Eustace L i. d. L s. d. [Orgar] I freeman I — ) 3
200 I sokeman . 30 I
I I sokeman — 15 J 1 63^. William de Warenne I freeman • ' " 20
I 4 I 4 3 5 414 31 i$ih. Fring is half a league long and half a league wide. 167^. William de Warenne 4 freemen . , I freeman Shernborne Carucates Acres 2 — — 40 } Valel I s- 3 d.
T.R.E. £ ^. d. 300 244^. Ivo Talboys 16 freemen . . 3 [5]^ - 4
200
268(7.
Bernard Arblaster
I —
I
16
278A.
Invasiones
[i sokeman of Harold]
Now W. de Pertenai
I freeman
. — 60
— 6
6
8 6 068 006 6 [8]"= 106 872 632 244^. Shernborne is i league long and half a league wide. ' e.g. Massingham, f. 109^. ' Hist. Norf. , 2 ». ' Dom. Bk. and Beyond, 432. ' Ibid. 370, 371. 'Part of Fring was a 'berewick' in Smethden (f. 193^), but the carucage is not given, and cannot safely be deduced from the plough-teams, and is, therefore, ignored here.
- The figures in brackets give the areas T.R.E. The figures, however, looic as though there had really
been 20 freemen holding 5 plough-lands, of whom Ivo Talboys had 16 with 3 plough-lands and William de Warenne 4 with the remaining 2 plough-lands.
