Note 1006 — Chapter X · THE INCOME OF THE CLERGY.
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The estate of Chilcombe alone, belonging to Winchester, is reckoned at one hundred hides, or at least three thousand acres, which they succeeded in getting rated to the public burthens at one hide only. Cod. Dipl. No. 642. But the whole of their estates in Hampshire appear from the same document to have comprised no less than five hundred and seventy-eight hides, which at my very low estimate of the hide amount to seventeen thousand, three hundred and forty acres,—a very pretty provision for one Chapter. The amount of lands and chattels devised by various prelates almost exceeds belief.