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 NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. iv. JULY i, 1911. and charge the expense to the writer. Dated at the manor of Kawood the morrow of St. Hillary. . An agreement between the three merchants Simon de Swanland, Rauf de Walecote, and Henry Darcy for the dissolution of their company. Dated London, the 4 day after 12 Edward II. . Indenture between Simon de Swanland and John de Swanland dated the Feast of St. Botulf, 13 Edward II. . . 4 .viiift. iiis. vid. Gain of two years next following, ccxxZi. Item, gain of the xvi., xvii., xviii. years, ccciij xx fo'.vs.viijd!. ; of year xix., ccxi/i. viiis. viiic?. ; the year of grace M'CCCXVI, account the day of St. Peter in the Chair, ccclvfo'. vis. Total, m'dec. iiij xx Zi. vis. iiijd. Of which sum the said Simon laid out in the purchase of a shop and in parcel accounts, the Feast of St. Peter above said, m'dcxiZi. viq. ; and there remained due to Simon clxixZi. iijs. ix<?. This indenture certifies that John de Swanland lost in his partnership with Simon, in arrears and debts, cccxxxviiZi. ixd. . Indenture witnessing that Sire Nicholas de Hungate, clerk, received of Symon de Swan- lund, merchant of London, the goods of which he had charge : " Lun euere et lavacre chase dorre, un chaperon de meisme la suite. Item i. orfiller de saye neu tredes oyseaux dor. Item iiij. aunes de tarse ove deux gemels de Reye dor ove un pece de meisme la suite. Item demy garmentez de velvet vert ove le Reye .... ove la chaperon de mesme la suite. Item i. pece de velvett i. ann. Item ij. garmentez of velvett de le R eyes de velvet vert. Item i. chape dor que la bordure argent de perles blanches divers .... [erased!. Item ij. bibles bon et bels lun covere de Roug quire, lautre de quire tanner. Item le sisme livre de . . . . vel et bien gloses covere de quir vert. Item i. Registre covere de quire rouge. Item deux coffres bien garnisez par trusser ove divers choses de deutz. Item viii. a . . . . de Reye dor a livere le Count de Chestre pur chivacres Item i. chalice bon et bel dargera dessez que poyse iiij. meres et deux pichers dargent meisme la suite. Item i. coupe dargent ove le pie et le covercle ove troys braunches de gleyns dorrez. . . . deviz le covercle des armes dangleterre et de France ove un ewere du meisme la suite. Item i. encensq dargent que poyse xvi. souz. Item iiij. mazers . . . .le trois suite leiz. ove soreles et dargent dorrez. Item un coverla vert ove iij. tapiz de meisme, a suite. Item i. quilt poynt novel long et leez covere de sendall vermaill. Item i. pece de bele napery et contient cynkaunt et trois aunes. Item i. messal covere de noyr quir. Item i. neyr falding. In witness of which Sir Nicholas and Symon have interchanged their seals. Given in London " le xxix. jour de Marc.," 1. Edward III. J. HARVEY BLOOM. THE BURGHAL HIDAGE. THE following comparison of the figures of the Burghal Hidage with the hidages of the corresponding counties as recorded in Domes- day Book may be of interest. It is based on the assumption that the total recorded in the MSS. (27,170 hides) for the main portion of the burghs is correct, so that the dis- crepancy between it and the sum of the separate hidages must be remedied, if possible, by emendations of the latter. Only two such emendations appear to be- required : ( 1 ) Tisbury and Shaf tesbury are- here considered as. the members of Wilton,, or substitutes for it; and (2) at Bath "M hides and xxii hund' hides " has been altered to " M hides and xii hund' hides," the latter being, in comparison with the- other, an easy phrase. The remaining figures have MS. authority. The details- may be seen in Maitland's ' Domesday Book and Beyond ' and Mr. Chadwick's ' Anglo- Saxon Institutions,' The county figures are from Maitland. Burghal Hidage. " Heorewburan " ... Hastings (15) Lewes Bnrpham Chichester Porchester Southampton and Win- Chester / w;if / Tisbury 700 Wllton | Shaf tesbury 700 / Twinham Wareham Bridport(?) -Hides . 324 . 1500 . 1300 . 726 . 1500 . 650 Domesday Boole. Hides Sussex ... 3474 Hants ... 2588 Berks ... 2473 - 1600 1760 Wilts (|) 3040 Dorset ... 2277 " Exeter Hahvell Liclford Pilton with Barnstaple Watchet Axbridge Lyng Langport Bath (3200) Malmesbury Cricklade ... Oxford and Wallingford ... Buckingham and " Sceaf tesley " J Bashing and South wark ... 1500 5700 Devon ... 1119 Somerset 2936 Gloucester 2388 Wilts (J)... 1010 -- Oxford ... 2412 Bucks ... 2074 Surrey ... 1830 ^ Recorded Total 27,170 Grand Total 27,621 The hidages assigned to the various- burghs no doubt correspond, as Mr. Chad- wick points out in his book, with levies of men and munitions made on the surround- ing districts for the defence of the several burghs. The excess in the Domesday total is almost accounted for in Buckinghamshire, where the omission of Newport Hundred (350 hides), as being north of Watling Street,, would remove most of the surplus. The placing of Twinham (Christchurch) in the middle of the Wiltshire and Dorset burghs proves that if the county boundaries had then been defined, they were not punc- tiliously observed by the framers of this scheme. It is obviously a Wessex scheme-