Note 133 — III Anglo-Norman Warfare
Reading edition
I may add that Mr. Oman misquotes this carta in his endeavour to extract from it support for his error about the ‘five hides’ (p. 57 above). I place his rendering by the side of the text.
... “unusquisque de i virgata. Et ita habetis ij milites et dimidium feodatos.” ... “only for one virgate each. From them you can make up a knight, and so you have two and a half knights enfeoffed” (p. 362).
The words I have italicised are, it will be seen, interpolated.