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15. viz. Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Wiltshire, divided into 1900 Hides, deletion unclear /deletion with

                                                               Southamptonshire,

Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, deletion & /deletion add and

                                                                  /add Devonshire

Danelege containing 15. Shires, viz. Everwick, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton, Bedford, Buckingham, Hertford, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Stafford.

Lastly Merchenlege containing 9.Shires.

Glocester…………….1300. Hides Worcester……………1200. Hides Hereford……………...1200. Hides Warwick………………1200. Hides Oxford………………...1400. Hides Chester……………….1200. Hides Stamford…………………..5. Hides, so various and uncertain are these old Accounts.

We find by Doomsday Book that all the Counties were not measured by Hides, Solin was used instead of it in Kent, Carucate in Lincolnshire, deletion & /deletion add

                                                           and /add some other

Counties.

Several other terms are made use of in our old Books, as Jugum, Vergate, Ferlin, &c. of all which in their Order.