APPENDIX A.

the Exchequer, told me I would be distreyned for it,—my answer
was, I was not willing to make my land chargeable with a burthen
more than my ancestors had paid—that there was a Court of
Survey to be kept in the Spring,—that if I could not then dis-
charge myself of having land, held of the 32 Denns, I would and
must pay it.”

“ Aldington Court. 1664. S^r John Maynard Serg^, at Law was
chosen to the Great Office though it were affirmed, he being
Kings Serg^t would procure a discharge. The order before men-
tioned of 6s. 8ιZ. for such Culets as received from the Steward a
transcript of what they were to collect, and 10s. for the Great
Office was at this Court willingly assented to.”

This determined refusal of a Markgraviat in the Mark of Kent
is amusing enough ; the Alberts, Berchtholds and Luitpolts did
not make quite so much difficulty about Brandenburg, Baden or
Ancona. How the dispute ended I do not know, but the right
was not in question : all that Sir Roger doubted was its applica-
bility to himself. Still the nature of the jurisdiction seems clear
enough, and the transition of an old Mark Court into a Lord’s
Court, with a steward, is obvious from the custom of the Tenants
chusing “ before the Steward himself could reach the Court the
abolition of which, Sir Roger naturally considered an excellent
thing.

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APPENDIX В.

THE HI'D.

Fkom the tables in the above chapter, it appears that we cannot
allow one hundred actual acres to the Hid, and still less one hun-
dred and twenty. A similar result will be obtained if we examine
the entries in Domesday. Thus

I have intentionally selected one or two examples where the
whole acreage exactly makes up the sum of hides multiplied by

¹ Here are to be added 125 acres of meadow and wood, and one ɪeuga of
pasture. (Donιesd. iii. p. 138.)

² Add 27 acres of mead and pasture, and a wood, 6 quadragenæ long by 2
qιιadr. wide. (Ibid. p. 137.)

³ Add 20 acres of mead and pasture, and a wood, 6 quadragenæ long by 2
wide. (Ibid. p. 137.)

* Add 91 acres of mead, pasture and forest. (Ibid. p. 138.)

⁶ Add 86 acres of mead, etc., and a forest a Ieuga and a half square. But
there was also land not geldable which sufficed for 20 ploughs ; and the 20
geldable hides were calculated at 30 ploughs. Taking the same proportion,
we ought to reckon not 30 but 33⅜ hides in Pilton, which at 30 acres would
give 1000 arable ; at 40 would give 1333J, while the whole acreage is but 1210.
This would exclude the calculation of 40 acres ; but we cannot trust the merely
approximate supposition that the land of 20 ploughs was to be reckoned in
the same proportion as that for 30.

^β Taunton properly is 52} geldable bides, and land for 20 ploughs not geld-
able. The 65 hides are made up subject to the same error as the last calcu-
lation. The appendant manor of Lidgeard, with the meadow pastures, etc.,
amounting to 519 acres, is also to be added, as well as forest a Ieuga long, by
a Ieuga wide, and pasture two leugæ long by one wide.

⁷ To these add 149 acres of mead, etc. Forest 12 quad, long by 3 wide:
again forest 12 quad, long by 2 wide, and 6 quadragenæ of marsh.

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