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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 almoſt every article, it ſeldom happens that they ever perfectly accord; and, ſometimes, they ſo very widely differ, that no ingenuity of argument can poſſibly reconcile them to even the appearance of the ſame ſtandard. I ſhall, therefore, notwithſtandjng ſuch high authorities, though with due deference to them, conſider Hida as the valuation of the eſtate, and Carucata as the meaſurement of the land. In the ſame manner, as we now ſay, that the modern Land tax is at ſo many ſhillings in the pound, according to the rent or value of the eſtate; ſo, formerly, the antient Danegeld (which was alſo a Land tax) was an aſſeſſment at ſo many ſhillings by the Hide.
I ſhall only produce one proof among many, from the Book of Domeſday itſelf, that this muſt be the proper diſtinction between Hida and Carucata, where a particular eſtate conſiſted of the meaſurement of four carucates, and yet was aſſeſſed at four hides in the time of the Confeſſor, but which four carucates was
