Note 176 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Another source of discrepancy may be found in the dangerous resemblance of formulae. Thus the carta of Ranulf fitz Walter records three and three-quarter fees duly accounted for. Yet his payment in 1168 is not £2 10s but £2 4s 5d. The explanation is that the holding was really three and one-third fees,176 but the transcriber read 'iij[a.] pars' (one-third) as 'iij. partes' (three-quarters).