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[ vi ] terms: that Hida was the Saxon appellation for a certain and fixed number of acres, and that Carucata was the Norman. But this definition will, by no means, agree with the following extract, for though Hida and Carucata are both mentioned in almot every article, it eldom happens that they ever perfectly accord; and, ometimes, they o very widely differ, that no ingenuity of argument can poibly reconcile them to even the appearance of the ame tandard. I hall, therefore, notwithtandjng uch high authorities, though with due deference to them, conider Hida as the valuation of the etate, and Carucata as the meaurement of the land. In the ame manner, as we now ay, that the modern Land tax is at o many hillings in the pound, according to the rent or value of the etate; o, formerly, the antient Danegeld (which was alo a Land tax) was an aement at o many hillings by the Hide.

I hall only produce one proof among many, from the Book of Domeday itelf, that this mut be the proper ditinction between Hida and Carucata, where a particular etate conited of the meaurement of four carucates, and yet was aeed at four hides in the time of the Confeor, but which four carucates was reduced