Note 842 — APPENDIX.

Add 86 acres of mead, etc., and a forest a leuga and a half square. But there was also land not geldable which sufficed for 20 ploughs; and the 20 geldable hides were calculated at 30 ploughs. Taking the same proportion, we ought to reckon not 30 but 33⅓ hides in Pilton, which at 30 acres would give 1000 arable; at 40 would give 1333⅓, while the whole acreage is but 1210. This would exclude the calculation of 40 acres; but we cannot trust the merely approximate supposition that the land of 20 ploughs was to be reckoned in the same proportion as that for 30.