Note 237 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 2)

One knows not, truly, which blunder is the worst, that of the Domesday scribe, who has converted a probable 'S. æ',237 i.e. Ely Abbey, into 'Saxæ', or that of the compiler of the I.E., who, by interpolating the word 'viginti', has converted three shillings into three-and-twenty. But the point is that the latter could name the Abbot's sokeman (nameless in Domesday) and could supply his acreage and the value of his holding. The actual details seem to have been: