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13. Swyncombe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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1 It is noteworthy that the Hundred Rolls describe the virgaters as ‘ serfs holding 8 acres each, making 2½ virgates altogether’, implying that the unit here is the small pastoral virgate. To the local officials the virgate was a unit of tenure whatever its size; to the royal officials it was becoming a standard measure of 32 acres.