A General Introduction to Domesday Book;: Accompanied by Indexes of the Tenants in Chief, and Under Tenants, at the Time of the Survey: as Well as of the Holders of Lands Mentioned in Domesday Anterior to the Formation of that Record: with an Abstract of the Population of England at the Close of the Reign of William the Conqueror, So Far as the Same is Actually Entered. Illustrated by Numerous Notes and Comments, Volume 2command of his Majesty King William IV. under the direction of Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom., 1833 - Agriculture - 543 pages |
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abbas Abbey ALMARUS ALSI alter homo ALURICUS ALUUINUS archiepiscopi Asgari stalri Bedf Berks Bordarii burgesses Cambr Canonici capite Under-tenants Chesh Chetst cilt Clam commendatus continued to hold Cornw Derb Devon Domesday Dors Earl Ecclesia Eddeva Edward the Confessor ejus entry Episcopi Essex filii Francigenæ frater GISLEBERTUS Glouc GODRIC GODUINUS Guert habet Hants held Heref Hertf homines duo homo Asgari homo Comitis homo Heraldi Comitis homo regis homo Stigandi Hunt huscarle Kent King Edward land Leic LEURIC liber homo liber homo commend LIBER homo unus libera femina LIBERI homines LIBERI homines 11 Linc manor Midd Monachi Norf Northampt Nottingh OSBERNUS OSMUNDUS passim pater prepositus presbyter Presbyteri quæ quatuor quidam Radulfus reginæ Robertus S. R. Linc Servi Shropsh SIUUARD SOCHEMANNI duo Somers Staff stalre Suff Surr Survey Sussex TAINI duo teignus regis Tenants in capite tenuit terra unus unus homo UXOR Vicecomes Villani WALTERUS Warw Wilts Worc Yorksh
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Page 56 - K'ele li uolt desheriter, Pris fu a haneleye a son maner, Le ior ke Saint Wlstan li ber Sa chapele auoit dedie ; A Wyncestre fu amene, Ilokes morut en prison Brictrich Mau par treison ; Qant il fu mort senz heir de sei Son heritage seisit le Rei, E cum escheit tint en sa main Dekes il feoffa Rob't fiz haim : Ki oueke lui de Normandie Vint od m'lt grant cheualerie La t're ke Brictrich li leissa Franchment a Robert dona.
Page 216 - Morkar to Ely by ship; but Earl Edwin was treacherously slain by his own men. Then came Bishop Aylwine, and Siward Barn, and many hundred men with them, into Ely. When King William heard that, then ordered he out a naval force and land force, and beset the land all about, and wrought a bridge, and went in; and the naval force at the same time on the sea-side. And the outlaws then all surrendered; that was, Bishop Aylwine, and Earl Morkar, and all that were with them; except Hereward94 alone, and...
Page 420 - Ad hsec in. acras precum, et duas de herbagio. Si plus indigeat herbagio, arabit proinde sicut ei permittatur. De aratura gabli sui arabit in. acras, et seminabit de horreo suo et dabit suum...
Page 414 - In some counties we have no mention of a single priest, even where churches are found ; and scarcely any inmate of a monastery is recorded beyond the abbot or abbess, who stands as a tenant in capite. These remarks might be extended, but they are sufficient for their purpose. They show that, in this point of view, the Domesday Survey is but a partial register. It was not intended to be a record of population further than was required for ascertaining the geld.
Page 343 - This year went Earl Sweyne into Wales; and Griffin, king of the northern men with him ; and hostages were delivered to him. As he returned homeward, he ordered the Abbess of Leominster to be fetched him; and he had her as long as he list, after which he let her go home.
Page 442 - Being addressed to jEthelwig, the writ, of course, must be previous to his death in 1077, but I think that we can date it, perhaps, with precision, and that it belongs to the year 1072. In that year, says the Ely chronicler...
Page 216 - And the king took their ships, and weapons, and many treasures2; and all the men he disposed of as he thought proper. Bishop Aylwine he sent to Abingdon, where he died in the beginning of the winter3. AD 1072. This year king William led a naval force and a land force to Scotland, and beset that land on the seaside with ships, whilst he led his landforce in at the Tweed4; but he found nothing there of any value. King Malcolm...
Page 447 - Gafolswane, id est, ad censum porcario, pertinet, ut suam occisionem det secundum quod in patria statutum est. In multis locis stat, ut det singulis annis xv. porcos ad occisionem, x. veteres et v. juvenes ; ipse autem habeat super-augmentum "), though the exact time of killing the swine is not stated in any Rectitude of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Page 218 - Siwardus dives homo de Scropscyre, et Osbernus filius Ricardi, et Turchil de Warewiescyre, et multi alii seniores et nobiles, quorum major pars jam dormiunt. Multi autem adhuc superstites sunt, qui illos audierunt, et adhuc multi de tempore regis Willclmi idem testificantes.