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be teams (i.e. teams at work) without land that is being ploughed, though it is true that often, and in some counties habitually, C will be slightly greater than B.
[1361] One of the chief difficulties in the way of accurate computation is occasioned by what we may call the complex entries. We start with some such statement as this: 'The Bishop holds Norton. It defends itself for a hides. There is land for b teams. There are d teams on the demesne and the villeins have e teams.' But then we read: 'Of this land [or of these a hides] Roger holds m hides; there are n teams on the demesne and the villeins have o teams.' Here the total number of hides is a, and not a + m; and I think that the total number of teamlands is b, and not b + some unstated number held by Roger; but the total number of teams is d + e + n + o. Entries in this form are not very uncommon, and therefore this explanation seemed to be required.
[1362] Pearson, History of England, ii. 665.
[1363] Col. IX. gives I. divided by II. Col. X. gives I. divided by VI. Col. XI. gives I. divided by VII. Col. XII. gives II. divided by VI. Col. XIII. gives II. divided by VII. Col. XIV. gives VI. divided by VII. Col. XV. gives VIII. divided by VI. [or if there is no VI. for this county, then by VII.].
[1364] In Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford and Shropshire I was compelled to adopt as the divisor the number of teams instead of the number of teamlands. As it is fairly certain that these counties were 'underteamed' (B > C), the resulting quotient (annual value of land actually tilled by a team) should be diminished before it is compared with the figures given for other counties.
[1365] C. S. Taylor, Analysis of Gloucestershire Domesday (Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeol. Soc. 1887-9).
[1366] But this is intended to include males only: the ancillae are left out.
[1367] Mr Taylor says in his preface: 'The work has occupied a large