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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK carucate in size, and about the same proportion range from i to 5 caru- cates. Only 70 of the 659 manors are 5 carucates or more in area. The largest is an estate of 25 carucates 20 acres at Hundon, in Risbridge Hundred, held under King Edward by a certain Wisgar, afterwards forming part of the fief of Richard Fitz Gilbert. The smallest is a plot of 1 2 acres at Sutton in Wilford Hundred," held, with a half freeman, half a bordar, half a plough- team, and an acre of meadow, by Robert Malet, under the commendation of ' Saint Etheldreda.' TABLE III— HOUSEHOLDS OF FREEMEN, SOKEMEN, AND VILLEINS Over 12 6-1 1 2-5 Single Total Num- Name of Hundred Households Households Households Households ber of vm» Northern Hundreds Lackford 11 4

I 17 (i without free, sokeman, »r villein households) Blackbourn) Bradmere j • • • • 27 6 I I 35 Hartismere .... 29 4 2 4 41 (2 without recorded population) Bishop's 16 6 4

27 (i without recorded population) Wangford 12 2 10

24 Lothing 5 3 3 I 12 Lothingland .... + 6 4 3 17 Central Hundreds Thingoe 14 5

19 Thedwastre .... 20

I 21 Stow 14

2 I 18 (i without recorded population) Bosmere 16 5 II

32 Claydon IS 2 4 4 25 Loes 22 4 I I 29 (l without recorded population) Carlford 18 8 8 2 39 (3 without recorded population) Ipswich I (Ipswich) I (Stoke)

2 Parham 4

I I 6 Plomesgate .... 8 7 5 2 28 (6 without free, sokeman, or villein households) Blything 27 13 8 6 54 Southern Hundreds Risbridge 20 7 S 4 37 (i without free, sokeman, or villein households) Babergh •9 7 8 3 38 ( I without recorded population) Samford 15 II 12 4 45 (3 without recorded population) Cosford ..... 9 10 I 2 22 Colneis 13 9 8 I 3> Wilford 18 S 7 3 33 357 125 105 45 652 (20 without free, sokeman, or villein households, or with- out recorded population) As is seen by tabulating the results of a rough classification, manors of less than a carucate in extent are not found at all in the hundreds of Ris- bridge, Cosford, Thingoe, Thedwastre, Stow, Lackford, and Ipswich. They are rare in Babergh, Blackbourn, Bradmere, and Bishop's Hundreds, numerous in Claydon, Plomesgate, Hartismere, and Wangford Hundreds, and very " Dom. Bk. 318, 387, entered under both R. Malet and St. Etheldreda. Inq. El. (Rec. Com.), 526*^. But, a: Professor VinogradofF has reminded us, the acres in these cases are geld-acres, and probably correspond to larger areas ; Engl. Soc. in Eleventh Cent. 337. 370