Note 196 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES

Of the sulung I have spoken already. It is a full ploughland, and 200 acres are commonly reckoned to belong to it. The name is sometimes found out of Kent, in Essex for instance. In Tillingham, a Manor of St. Paul's, of London, we come across six hides 'trium solandarum'. The most probable explanation seems to be that the hide or unit of assessment is contrasted with the solanda or sulland196 (sulung), that is with the actual ploughland, and two hides are reckoned as a single solanda (p. 255).