There was further in this Manor a _double hide_, called a _solanda_, presumably of 240 acres. This double hide, called a _solanda_, is also mentioned in a Manor in Middlesex [Sutton], and in another in Surrey [Drayton][195]; and the term _solanda_ is probably the same as the well-known '_Sollung_' or '_solin_' of Kent, meaning a 'ploughland'.
Proceeding further (p. 395), Mr Seebohm wrote:
Generally in Kent, and sometimes in Sussex, Berks and Essex, we found, in addition to, or instead of, the hide or carucate, or 'terra unius aratri', _solins_, _sullungs_, or _swullungs_, the land pertaining to a '_suhl_', the Anglo-Saxon word for plough.
Unfortunately no reference is given for the cases of Sussex and Berks, and I know of none myself.
Turning now to the learned work of Professor Vinogradoff, we find him equally misled:
Of the _sulung_ I have spoken already. It is a full ploughland, and 200 acres are commonly reckoned to belong to it. The name is sometimes found out of Kent, in Essex for instance. In Tillingham, a Manor of St. Paul's, of London, we come across six hides 'trium solandarum'. The most probable explanation seems to be that the hide or unit of assessment is contrasted with the _solanda_ or _sulland_[196] (sulung), that is with the actual ploughland, and two hides are reckoned as a single _solanda_ (p. 255).
Lastly, we come to Mr Seebohm's reply to Professor Vinogradoff (_ante_, pp. 444-465). Here the identity is again assumed:
Along with parts of Essex, the Kentish records differ in phraseology from those of the rest of England. Their _sullungs_ of 240 acres occur also in the Manors of Essex belonging to St. Paul's, and the custom of gavelkind and succession of the youngest child mark it off as exceptional. Mr Vinogradoff ... shows that in the Kentish district, and in Essex, where the _sullung_ or _solanda_ takes the place of the hide, and where gavelkind prevailed, the unity of the hides and virgates was preserved only for the purposes of taxation and the services; whilst in reality the holdings clustered under the nominal unit were many and irregular.
I yield to no one in admiration for Mr Seebohm's work, but the question raised is so important that accuracy as to the fact is here essential. (1) _Sullung_ is nowhere found in Essex, but only _solanda_; (2) _Solanda_ does not occur 'in the Manors' referred to, but at Tillingham alone; (3) In Essex it nowhere 'takes the places of the hide', as it does in Kent; (4) The Essex instance adduced by Professor Vinogradoff is taken from a Manor where _solanda_ does not occur.