Note 165 — Chapter IV · LANDED POSSESSION. THE EÐEL, HÍD OR ALOD.
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The numbers given are assumed, upon the supposition that 3 × 40 were taken: or that 4 × 8, that is four virgates of eight acres; or lastly that thirty-three Saxon = nearly forty Norman were taken. As I am about to test the actual acreage of England by these numbers, it is as well to try them all. The practical result cannot vary much, and the principal object is to show that the Saxon Hide was not very different from the ordinary German land-divisions.