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Abbot acres alodium ancient arable belong bishop book-land bordarii bordiers borough burgesses Burghal Hidage burh called Cambridgeshire carucates century charters church common Confessor's Conquest counties court D. B. ii danegeld demesne document Domesday Book Earl Edward English entries Essex Feudal England fiscal five hides folk-land geld gift give grant habet half held Herefordshire hida Hidage Hist hold houses hundred Ibid jurisdiction justice Kemble Kent king king's land land-books liberi homines lord lord's manerium manor manses Meitzen Norfolk Norman number of hides oxen pasture perches perhaps Pipe Rolls plough Regis rent royal sake and soke Schmid seems seignorial serfs sheriff shillings shire slaves soca soke sokemen speak Suffolk sulungs teamlands teams tell tenants tenement tenet tenuit tenure terra thegns Tribal Hidage village villani villeins vills virgate wergild whole Wiltshire wite Worcester words Yorkshire
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Page 24 - ... how much meadow; how much pasture; how many mills; how many fisheries...
Page 24 - They inquired what the manor was called; who held it in the time of King Edward; who holds it now; how many hides...
Page 9 - Too often we allow ourselves to suppose that, could we but get -back to the beginning, we should find that all was intelligible and should then be able to watch the process •whereby simple ideas were smothered under subtleties and technicalities. But it is not so. Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety ; it is the goal not the starting point. As we go backwards the familiar outlines become blurred ; the ideas become fluid, and instead of the simple we find the indefinite.
Page 356 - In particular there lies a besetting danger for us in the barbarian's use of a language which is too good for his thought. Mistakes then are easy, and when committed they will be fatal and fundamental mistakes. If, for example, we introduce the persona ficta too soon, we shall be doing worse than if we armed Hengest and Horsa with machine guns or pictured the Venerable Bede correcting proofs for the press; we shall have built upon a crumbling foundation.
Page 223 - ... the baronial castle. When therefore we speak, as we shall have to speak, of forces which make for the subjection of the peasantry to seignorial justice and which substitute the manor with its villeins for the free village, we shall — so at least it seems to us— be speaking not of abnormal forces, not of retrogression, not of disease, but in the main of normal and healthy growth. Far from us indeed is the cheerful optimism which refuses to see that the process of civilization is often a cruel...
Page 337 - And whence, we must ask, comes that system of intermixed The strip. ' strip-holding ' that we find in our English fields? Who laid and the out those fields ? The obvious answer is that they were laid out by men who would sacrifice economy and efficiency at the shrine of equality.
Page 13 - Frensham and some other villages. If we mistake not, all that Domesday Book has to say of the whole of this territory is that the Bishop of Winchester holds Farnham, that it has been rated at 60 hides, that it has been worth the large sum of £65 a year and that there are so many tenants upon it3.
Page 520 - A century hence the student's materials will not be in the shape in which he finds them now. In the first place, the substance of Domesday Book will have been rearranged. Those villages and hundreds which the Norman clerks tore into shreds will have been reconstituted and pictured in maps...
Page 15 - On the other hand, we may easily find a country in which there are few villages of this character. The houses which lie within the boundary of the parish are scattered about in small clusters; here two or three, there three or four.
Page 222 - But against the hypothesis that this was the general case the English language and the names of our English villages are the unanswered protest. It seems incredible that the bulk of the population should have been of Celtic blood and yet that the Celtic language should not merely have disappeared, but have stamped few traces of itself upon the speech of the conquerors.