Even if it were possible to form an accurate estimate of the average yield of demesne land, then, we should have an over-estimate for the average yield of ordinary common-field land.
No accurate estimate of the average yield even of demesne land can be made, however, on the basis of the few entries regarding the yield of land which have been printed.
On some manors, it is true, demesne land seems to have been merged inextricably in the customary holdings, and to have been held later, like them, by copy of court roll.
Anderd Budde holds half a virgate of demesne land, from the time of Bishop Henry, by the same services as all who hold so much.
The great heavy plough drawn by eight or ten oxen is certainly often mentioned in the records, especially on demesne land[508].
In Ireland the mensal land on which they live is allowed by Sir John Davies to be (by a rough analogy) called the chief's demesne land.
It has been shown that the Saxon thane's estate or manor was divided into thane's inland or demesne land, and geneat land or gesettes land, answering to the land in villenage of the Domesday Survey.
They were not holdings of the lord's demesne land, but of the land in villenage.
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