NOTE The reader should bear in miiiJ throughout that the date of the Domesday Survey is 1086 ; that King Edward, to whose time it refers, died 5 January 1066 ; that the ' hide ' was the unit of assessment on which the (Dane)geld was paid, and that the ' virgate ' was its quarter. Parallel with the ' hide ' was the ' carucate ' of the northern portion of Rutland, the ' bovate ' represent- ing an eighth of it. The essential portion of the plough {caruca) was its team of oxen, eight in number. The ' demesne ' was the lord's portion or the manor, the peasantry holding the rest of it under him. It is necessary to remember that when Domesday speaks of a place as held by a certain tenant it does not follow that the whole of it is meant. The vill may have comprised other manors, which form the subject of separate entries. 137 18
