Note 157 — Chapter VI · The Line of Atholl Restored.

Marianus alludes to this famine. Compare the account of Simeon with Domesday in Ellis’s Introduction. At the date of the Survey, Lincolnshire contained 11,504 Socmen and 11,747 Villani and Bordarii, whilst in Yorkshire only 447 Socmen are recorded, with 6914 of the other classes. Yorkshire was the head-quarters of the Anglo-Danes of Northumbria, and as the Socmen represented the old Danish Odal-Bonders, there is no difficulty in recognising the real class that bore the brunt of the northern wars, and contributed most largely to the emigrants and outlaws.