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A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK and serf has been counted as a householder. Freemen, sokemen, and priests have been reckoned as free ; villeins, bordars and serfs as unfree. TABLE I— POPULATION AND AREA Hundred Northern Hundreds Lackford Blackbour.i Bradmere Hartismer.- Bishop's Wangford Lothing Lothingland (half-hundred) . Central Hundreds Thingoe Thedwastre Stow Bosmere Claydon Loes Carlford Ipswich " (half-hundred) . . Parham (half-hundred) . . Plomsgate [or Plomesgate]. . Blything Southern Hundreds Risbridge Babenberg [or Babergh] (dou- ble hundred) Samford (hundred and a half) Cosford (half-hundred) . . Colneis Wilford Free and Area of Arable No. of Half-free House- holders Totals Vills, &c. House- holders Carucates Acres 17 7' 411 482 104 106 25 498 c. 230 728 c. 80 74 10 255 137 392 44 244 41 896 c. 501 c. 1,397 c. 122 4ii 27 246 c. 678 c. 924 c. 123 112 24 459c. 464 923 c. 73 i6i 12 .76 86 262 20 16 17 117 1 86 c. 303 c. SO "5 19 283 360 643 86 9ii 21 694 c. 434 1,128c. 113 18 18 341 341 c. 682 c. 82 no 32 639 c. 453 1,092 c. 94 92 25 429 c. 316 745 c. 64 48 29 508 c. 393 c. 901 c. 78 56I 39 451 379 830 94 118 2" 272 70 342 20 46 6 158 18 176 '4 62 28 340 c. 258 598 c. 60 62 54 842 c.'° 1,281 c. 2,123c. 201 96J 37 370 830 1,200 209 51 38 276 1,083 1,359 •97 21^ 46 280 693 973 166 9' 22 240 4>3 653 99 51 31 340 173 513 29 67 33 749 126 c. 87s c. 112 4 Approximate Average of Households per Carucate to 5 9 9 1 1 7 12 •3 6 7 9 to 10 8 II 1 1 1 1 8 to 9 •7 1 1 9 to 10 loj to 6 to 7 to 6 6i <7 to 8 Rough as these statistics are, they bring out clearly the strong element of freedom in the village population of Suffolk at the time of the Domesday Survey. This element is most apparent, if Ipswich Half-hundred be omitted, in the northern hundreds of Blackbourn, Bradmere, Hartismere, and Lothing ; in the central hundreds of Thedwastre, Bosmere, Claydon, Loes and Carlford, Parham and Plomesgate; and in the southern hundreds of Colneis and Wilford. The unfree element is strikingly predominant in the hundreds of Blything, Risbridge, and Babergh, all ' manorialized ' districts. In Babergh double hundred, where the proportion of free to unfree householders is about one to five, there are some thirty-eight manors to as many vills. In Colneis Hundred there are only nine small manors in thirty-one vills, and the propor- tion of free to unfree householders is about two to one. In East Anglia, and in East Anglia alone, at the time of the Domesday Inquest, the hundreds were divided, for fiscal purposes, into smaller units called /eets. Two passages in the Norfolk Domesday refer to these divisions," " Two hundred and sixty-three burgesses counted among the freemen. " Ipswich ' burgus ' and ' villa ' and Stoke. '" Three hundred and sixteen burgesses in Dunwich. ^' Dom. Bk. 119^. ' Hundredum de Grenehou de xiv. letis,' 2 1 23; ' Hundredum et dimidium de ClakeWa de x leitis.' r.C.H. Nor/, ii, 5-6. 360