Domesday: also, that it shows us how certain Vills were combined for the purpose of assessment.
As the Villswere represented in the Hundred court, and the Hundreds in the Shire court, the just apportionment of the Shire's quota would be thus practically secured.
Obviously that the reduction was made on the assessment of the Hundred as a whole, and that this reduction was distributed among its several Vills pro rata.
So far as single Vills are concerned, Bengeo affords a good illustration of the way in which scattered fractions work out in combination.
And on turning from the above figures to the map we find the discovery verified, these twoVills jointly occupying the northern portion of the hundred.
Notice next how the two Vills of Toft and Hardwick, which are separately surveyed in Domesday under their respective names, are found from the Inq.
Markets are being held and market-tolls are being taken in many vills which are not of burghal rank[762].
However, the broad truth stands out that England was divided into vills and that in general the vill of Domesday Book is still a vill in after days[41].
We may well suppose that from of old the vills that a king would wish to get and to keep would be the flourishing vills, but again we can not doubt that many a vill has prospered because it was the king's.
For example, of the fourteen vills in the Armingford hundred of Cambridgeshire there is but one of which it is true that the whole of its land is held by a single tenant in chief.
We have tried to avoid villsin which it is certain or probable that some other tenant in chief had an estate.
We are to ask why certain vills are severed from other vills and are called boroughs.
In that county Domesday's list of vills is so nearly the same as the modern list of parishes that we run no great risk in comparing the ancient teamlands with the modern acreage vill by vill, if we also compare them hundred by hundred.
We will next look at a page in the survey of Somersetshire which describes certain vills that have fallen to the lot of the bishop of Coutances[50].
We will take at random fourteen villsin Staffordshire held by Earl Roger[49].
Some of the royal vills eventually entered the class of boroughs, but by another route, and for the present the private stronghold and the royal dwelling may be neglected.
It is not till after the Danish invasions that it becomes easier to draw a distinction between the burhs that served as military strongholds for national defence and the royal vills which served no such purpose.
The earliest instances look as if the twelve men and the four vills were the patria and had to agree.
Along with the growth of churches in the tuns and vills was the founding of monasteries.
A very large number of vills and tuns were under the lordship of the various bishops and monasteries.
Their rights over their vills and tuns were much the same in each case, and their duties to those vills and tuns were also similar.
All the land that did not go with the tuns and vills in early days was apparently regarded as belonging to the people, and was called the folk-land.
The tuns or vills of the bishopric of Winchester, for instance, were scattered about in the various parts of the diocese.
The old vills of Saxon times were now pretty generally called manors.
We see, too, that whole vills came gradually into the hands of some monasteries; so that the convent became the lord of the vill instead of a thane or a king.
We see, too, that whole vills came gradually into the hands of some monasteries; so that the convent became the lord of the vill, instead of a thane or a king.
Along with the growth of churches in the tuns and vills was the founding of =monasteries=.
All the land that did not go with the tuns and vills in early days was apparently regarded as belonging to the people, and was called the =folk-land=.
The tuns or vills of the bishopric of Winchester, for instance, were scattered about in various parts of the diocese.
In time churches were built in the vills and tuns, and a priest left in charge, who had his share in the strips of land, and in the course of time had other dues paid to him.
The amount of land usually held with these vills varied from two or three hides to half a carucate, the general figure being one or two carucates, so that it is quite clear that all over the county the great bulk of the land was waste.
Diss, chaplains, William of Breiton, and many others--that he had no hereditary right in the vills of Groton and Semere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
