Note 150 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES

But my strong evidence is found in an invaluable survey of Leicestershire, unknown till now to historians,150 which does for the carucated districts just what the Inq. Com. Cant. does for the hidated ones. Here we find the townships grouped in small blocks of from six to twenty-four 'carucatæ terræ', as a rule with almost monotonous regularity. And these blocks are further combined in small local Hundreds, of which the very existence is unknown to historians and antiquaries,151 and which are usually multiples, like the Lincolnshire Wapentake, of the six-carucate unit.