Domesday And Feudal Statistics, With a Chapter On Agricultural Statistics
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Could we transfret the centuries doubtless a landowner would be able to indicate the exact boundaries of his property, and likewise inform of its total Hides, and indicate exactly by whom each item of taxes and rates was paid — further it might be found that some tenants paid neither rates nor taxes, and others perhaps in pro- portion to their holdings in the common fields, the owner acquitting the demesne at a more or less arbitrary computation for arable, wood, and grass, by Hides, which may ...indicate different quantities of ground on 2 adjoining properties. Again either the whole estate may be, say, 10 Hides, or but such portions of it as are concerned in defending them ; in Yorkshire (1086) there can be small doubt that Yorkshire wood and rough pasture is within the carucate, as the dimensions of same are often given and com- prised within the larger areas of the Manors — see also Kelham's D. B. Illustrated (p. 231) ; " took from this land i Hide of the aforesaid wood," and " 5- a Hide of wood." Now tho' it might have been practicable to fix a tax by the acre (instead of the Hide) on arable and grass enclosures, to bring woods and rough pasture land into a similar computation in proportion to their area would be a hard matter, premising that the latter would have to be sought out and measured, and charged at a suitable and varying rate.
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