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Chapter XIII: XIV XV XVI (7)

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Cnut's geld, 3, 55, 446

Cnut's writs, 260

Co-aration, 142, 149

Cognizance, Claims of, 93, 97, 282-293

Colchester, 198, 201

Coleness, Hundred of, 355

_Coliberti_, 28, 33, 36, 329

Collective liability, 208

_Coloni_, 51

Colonization of villages, 365, 501

Colonization under Ine, 238, 367

_Comes_, 8

Comital manors, 167

Commendation, 67-75, 102, 104, 326

Common fields, 15, 379

Common property of burgesses, 200

Common, Rights of, 143, 202, 348, 352

Communalism, 149, 203, 341

Community, The borough, 198, 200

Community, The village, 142-150, 340-356

Compound householders, 125

Confessor, _see_ Edward

Conqueror, Writs of the, 266

Conquest, Norman, Effects of, 60, 135, 172

Consent of Witan, 247-252

_Consuetudines_, 67-8, 76-9

Continuity of hidation, 491, 509

Contract, Free, 171

Convertible husbandry, 366, 425

Conveyance in court, 323

Co-ownership, 143-4, 341

Cornage, 147

Cornwall, 410, 425, 428, 463, 467

Corporation, 204-209, 253, 341, 349, 351

Corroboration of land-books, 251

_Cotarii_, 23-25, 38-41

Cotlif, 334

_Cotseti_, 39

Cotsetla, 328

Counties, Detached pieces of, 9

Counties, Farms of, 169

Counties, Geld of, in cent. xi. 448-475

Counties, Geld of, in cent. xii. 7, 474

Counties, Populousness of, 19, 20

County Hidage, The, 455

County towns, 176

Court, Borough, 185, 210

Court, Seignorial, 91, 94, 275-8

Court, Suit of, 85, 95, 140, 322

Crediton, 113, 228, 501

Criminal and civil, 83

Criminal law and revenue, 79

Criminal law and serfage, 29, 32

Crosses on charters, 251, 262-5

Crown, Pleas of the, 82, 261, 282

_Cultura_, 380

_Curia_, 94, 110, 125

Cursing clause, 230, 262

Customary acres, 373-6

Customary land, 78

Dairy farming, 115

Danegeld, _see_ Geld

Danelaw, The, 139

Danish influence, 139, 339, 395, 397

Day's labour, 377

Dearer birth, 163

_Decuriae_ of slaves, 361, 512

Deer-hays, 169, 240, 307

Default of justice, 284

Default of service, 159

Defence, 123

Delegation of franchises, 84, 289

Demesne, Ancient, 65, 167

Demesne and geld, 55

Demesne, Boroughs on royal, 218

Demesne land of manor, 119

Denmark, King's feorm in, 238

Derby, 200

Derbyshire, 90, 108, 166, 427

Devastation of villages, 363

Devonshire, 116, 215, 425, 428, 463, 467

_Dialogus de Scaccario_, on villeinage, 53, 61

Diet of Englishmen, 440

Diplomatics, 247-252, 262-5

Dispositive and evidentiary, 263

Divine service, Tenure by, 151

Division of acres, 384

Dog-bread, 146, 440

_Dominium_, 224

_Dominium_ and _dominicum_, 53-4

_Dominium_ and _imperium_, 342

_Dona_ of boroughs, 174-176

_Dona_ of counties, 473

Doomsmen, 95, 97, 102, 211

Dorset, 175, 461

Double hide, 393

Dover, 193, 209

Downton, 498

Drengage, 308

Dunwich, 96

Duxford, 136

Earl, 8, 168-170

Earl, Third penny of, 95

Eashing, 503

East and West, 22, 199, 339

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 279-282

Economic grades, 41

Edmund, Abbey of St., 55, 88, 240

Edward the Confessor and the geld, 3

Edward the Confessor's charters, 259, 491

Edward the Elder builds burgs, 186, 504

_Edwardi Lex_, 52

Ell (measure), 372

Ely, Church of, 77, 89, 92, 162, 269

Ely, Isle of, 476, 509

Embryo manors, 139, 519

Emendable crimes, 89

Eminent domain, 342

Enfranchisement, 31

English and French, 62

Epping Forest, 356

Escheat _propter defectum_, 295

Escheat _propter delictum_, 103, 295

Essex, 35, 64, 116, 363, 430, 480

Estrays, 148

Ethel, 256

Euti, 467

Evesham, Church of, 235, 453

Exaggeration, Medieval, 510

Exchequer Domesday, 2

Exeter, 156, 201

Exon Domesday, 2

Extra-hundredal places, 9

Fallowing, 399

_Familiae, Terra unius_, 358

Family, Size of, 437, 519

Famine, 364, 518

Fareham, 449

Farm of manors, 62, 146

Farthingland, 479

Fealty, 59, 293

Fee farm, 152

Feet as measures, 369

_Feldgrasswirtschaft_, 425

Feorm, The king's, 234, 318, 324

_Fertinus_, 479

_Festuca_, 323

Feudalism, 223, 240, 307

Feudalism and clerical claims, 280

Feudalism and vassalism, 171

_Feudum_, 152-5, 301, 318

Field systems, 365, 425, 437, 486, 51

Fiht-wite, 88

_Firma burgi_, 204

Fission of vills, 14, 365, 367

Five hide unit, 121, 156-164

Fleta, 397

_Flurzwang_, 347

Fold-soke, 76, 91, 442

Foldworthiness, 77, 91

Folk-land, 244-258

Food of beasts, 441

Food of the nation, 436, 518

Foreign precedents, 230, 249, 321

Forensic service, 50

Forest measures, 372, 376

Forfeiture of land, 103, 295

Forfeitures, The six, 88

Franchise, 1, 43, 50, 82

_Francigena_, 46

_Francus_, 46

Frankalmoin, 151

Frankish danegeld, 518

Frankish gifts of land, 297

Frankish manors, 321

Frankish military service, 161

_Freda_, 278

Freedom, see Liberty

Free-holding, 46-50

Free men, _see Liberi homines_

Free villages, 129, 339, 352

_Freizügigkeit_, 42, 51

French diplomatics, 265

French law of seignorial justice, 82, 94, 284

Freóls-bóc, 270

_Frigesoca_, 93

Furlong, 372, 379

Fyrdwite, 159, 161

Fyrdworthiness, 160

_Gablaltores_, 57

Gafol-land, 44

Gebúr, 28, 36, 59, 328

Geld, 3-8, 24, 54, 120-129, 206-8, 324, 391, 408, 446-490

Geld in cent. xii. 6, 460, 474

Geld Inquests, 478

Geneat, 59, 327

_Genossenschaft_, 342

Geography of D. B., 9, 407

Gerefa, The, 327, 392

German burgs, 189

_Gersuma_, 57, 147

Gift and loan, 299, 317

Gifts of land, 293

Gilds, 191, 201

Gloucester, 182, 205

Gloucestershire, 205, 395, 412

Goad (measure), 372, 377

Goats, 442

Godwin, House of, 168

Grantham, 213

Grass-swine, 57

Halimot, 82, 86, 91

Hall, The, 109-110, 125

Hám, 332

Hamlets, 15-16

Hamton, The suit about, 85, 124, 158

Hampshire, 153, 155

Harold, Rapacity of, 168

Harrow (Middlesex), 112

Hawgavel, 204

Hawks, Prices of, 169

Haws in boroughs, 114, 182, 196

Head-penny, 33

Hearth-penny, 38

Heir-land, 257

Heming's Cartulary, 227

Henley, Walter of, 378, 397, 438, 441, 488, 519

Henry the Fowler, 189

Herdwicks, 333

Hereford, 199, 209

Heriot, 73, 155, 199, 298

Hertfordshire, 137-8

Heyford, Map of, 382

Hide, The, 336, 357-520

Hide, The, of Leicestershire, 468-470

Highways, Royal, 87

Hiwisc, 358

Hiwscipe, 358

_Holtding_, 355

Homage, 69

_Homines dei_, 275

Honour and manor, 81

Horses, 442

_Hospites_, 60

House communities, 349

House-peace and soke, 99

_Hufe_, German, 387, 515

Hundred, Elder of the, 147

Hundredal soke, 90, 94

Hundred-moot, 93, 97

Hundreds, 90, 148, 259, 267, 287, 451-5, 459

Huntingdon, 204

Husting, 211

Hyldáð, 69

Idealism, Archaic, 389

Ideas, Legal, 9, 224

Identification of parcels, 493

Immunists, 277

Immunity, The English, 270, 292

Immunity, The Frankish, 278

Inclosure of common fields, 16, 436

Ine's foster, 237

Ine's laws, 237, 320, 332

Infangennethef, 82, 276

Ingeldable carucates, 409

Inheritance, 145

Inheritance, Precarious, 309

Inland, 55, 121, 331

_Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiae_, 1

_Inquisitio Eliensis_, 1

Intercommoning of vills, 355

Intermixed manors, 136

Intermixed strips, 337

Inward, 130, 169, 240

Iona, 512

Ipswich, 211

Iron, Dues paid in, 45

_Judices_, 211

Jurisdiction, 101, 277

Justice, Feudal and Franchisal, 80

Justice, Seignorial, 52, 80-107, 258-292, 310

Kalenberg _Hufe_, 517

Kent, 360, 466, 484

Kind, Payments in, 57

King and crown, 167, 253, 300

King as immunist, 276

King as landlord, 65, 166-7

King's land, 231-258, 351

King's thegns, 162

Kingship, Elective, 254

Kinship, 349

Knight, _see_ Cniht

Knight's fees, Number of, 511

Knight's service, 151

_Königshufe_, 516

Læn-land, 75, 160, 301-318

Læt, The Kentish, 27

_Laeti_, 27, 37

Land, Kinds of, 257

Land-books, 226-258, 261, 286-8, 520

Land-cóp, 323

Land-loans, 75

Landríca, 59, 125

Language, Legal, 225, 267

Law Latin, 267

Lawmen, 88, 211

Leases, 301-318

_Leges Edwardi_ on township, 148

_Leges Henrici_ on serfage, 30

" " on soke, 80

_Lehn_, The German, 301

_Lehnrecht_, 171, 311

Leicester, 156, 197, 218

Leicestershire, 409, 421, 468

_Leis Williame_ on serfage, 51

Leominster, 56, 58

Letters patent, 263

Lewisham, 58

_Lex equitandi_, 305

_Liberalis homo_, 43, 59

_Liber burgus_, 217

_Liberi homines_, 23, 66-7, 90, 104

Liberties within boroughs, 210

Liberty, 42-47

Lincoln, 211

Lincoln, Church of, 92, 103

Lincolnshire, 90, 106, 139, 147, 428, 445

Linear measurement, 432

Little Domesday, 1

Loaf-eaters, 29

Loan and gift, 299, 317

_Locus standi_ of villeins in court, 52

London, 174, 178, 180, 184, 191, 409

Lord and man, 67, 285-9

Lord, Duty of finding a, 70

Lord's responsibility for crime, 38

Lord's responsibility for taxes, 24, 54, 59, 122-128, 323

Lordless villages, 141, 149

Lordship and landlordship, 104, 172

Lug (measure), 372

Lyng (Somerset), 188, 503

Lysing, The Danish, 44

Mainpast, 29

Maintenance of quarrels, 71

Malmesbury, Church of, 72, 492

Man, Isle of, 513

Man-bót, 31, 54, 70

_Manentes_, 335, 359

_Manerium_, 64, 107, 500

Manor, 107-128, 326-340, 519

Manor and vill, 129-150, 334

Manorial organization, 319, 360, 391, 519

_Mansa_, 108, 359

_Mansio_, 109

_Mansus indominicatus_, 320

_Mansus ingenuilis_, 517

_Mantal_, Swedish, 387

Manumission, 31

Manure, 76, 442

_Manusfirma_, 309

Maps, 15, 16, 362, 381-3

Mark, The German, 354, 368

Market, 192-6

Marriage and wardship, 310

Marshland Fen, 367

Meadows, 348, 443

Measures, 368

Mediatization of boroughs, 212-218

_Mellitarii_, 57

Merchant gilds, 191

Merchet, 199

Mercia, Hides of, 507, 510

Merovingian Gaul, 224

Middlesex, 477

_Migrantibus, Lex Salica de_, 350

_Miles_, 8, 163

Military service, 156-164, 235, 273, 294

Mills, 144

Mill-soke, 77

Mixed tribunals, 275

Modern conveyances, 232

Monasticism, 325

Money rents in D. B., 57

Moneyers, 195

Moot-worthiness, 260

_Morgen_, 377, 516

Movability of land, 10, 13

_Mufflae_, 31

Mund and soke, 100

Mural houses, 188

Nation, Lands of the, 252

_Nativi_, 51

New vills, 14, 365, 367

Night's farm, 146, 169, 236-8, 319

Nottinghamshire, 90, 108, 127, 166, 427

Norfolk, 106, 146, 429, 483

Norman perches, 376

Norman tenures, 154

Northampton, 204, 208

Northamptonshire, 204, 457, 468

Northamptonshire Geld Roll, 2, 457

Northumberland, 7

Norwich, 192, 199, 200

Nucleated villages, 15

Oaths of thegns, 163

Oaths of villeins, 53

Oats, 439, 441

Office and property, 168

Ordeal, 281

Orwell, 63, 95, 129, 133, 136, 352

Oswald, St., 268, 289, 304-313

Oswald's law, 85, 227, 267-9, 308-310, 424

Oswy's gift, 511

Overrating and underrating, 447, 461

Ownership, Ancient and modern, 397

Ownership and superiority, 231, 342

Ownership, Limited, 299

Ox, Price of, 44, 444

Oxford, 156, 179, 188, 198, 202

Oxfordshire, 92, 169, 445, 505

Oxgang, 395

Pannage, 57, 307

Parage, 143

Pardons of geld, 8

Parishes, Modern, 12, 499

Parishes, Number of, 511

Parliamentary boroughs, 173

Partible inheritance, 145

Partitionary taxation, 120, 206, 391, 450, 480

Pasture, 143, 170, 203, 348, 442, 446

_Pastus_, The King's, 234, 272

_Patria potestas_, 349

Patronage of church, 303

Peace of borough, 184, 193

_Peculium_, 28

Penal stipulation, 230

Penenden, The suit at, 87

Perch (measure), 372-9, 518

Pershore, Church of, 290, 452

_Persona ficta_, 353, 356

_Pertica_, 274

Peter pence, 59, 125, 288

Petroc, Church of St., 55

Pipe Rolls, Geld in, 400, 460

_Placita et forisfacturae_, 84, 94

Plan of D. B., 9

Plough, 142, 373

Ploughgang, 395

Ploughing, A day's, 378

Ploughing, A year's, 398, 435

Poleham, 485

Police of vills, 147

Population, 17-22, 408, 437

Port and burh, 195

Portmen, 195, 212

Portreeve, 202

Pound and hide, 465

_Precarium_, 300

Prediality of serfage, 28

Prices, 44, 169, 365, 444

Priest of village, 148, 437

Protection and commendation, 70

Provender rents, 146, 236, 316, 440

Pursuit of fugitive serfs, 42, 51

Purveyance, 239

Quasi hides, 409

_Radchenistres_, 44, 56, 66, 305

_Radmanni_, 57, 305

Ramsey, Church of, 260, 319, 393

Rapes of Sussex, 409

_Recedere_, 47, 68, 152, 162

_Rectitudines_, 37, 327

Reductions of hidage, 410, 506, 510

Redemption of land, 60

Reeve of borough, 209

_Regio_, 167

Relief, 153, 155, 310

Rents, Money, in D. B., 57

Restraint on alienation, 296

Reveland, 169

Ribble and Mersey, Land between, 458

Ridingmen, 305, 307

Rochester, Church of, 466

Rod or perch, 372-9

_Rogatio testium_, 250

Roman law, 224, 303

Roman taxation, 470

Roman villa, 327, 337

Romney, 89

Rood (measure), 372, 382

Rothley, 114

Rounceys, 442

Royal boroughs, 182

Rutland, 471

Sake, 84

Sale of chattels, 147, 194

Sale of land, 47, 100, 105, 144

Sale of slaves, 33

_Salica_, Ownership in _Lex_, 347, 350

Salisbury, The oath at, 172

Sanford, Hundred of, 90

Sawston, 136, 387, 443

Scattered steads (_Einzelhöfe_), 15, 16, 140

Seal, 265

Secularizations, 301

Sedgebarrow, 227

Seignory over commended men, 74

Selions, 383

Selsey, 228, 234, 513

_Semibos_, 142

_Senior_ and _Vassus_, 283, 300

Serfage, _see Servi_

Serfage, Transmission of, 31

Serjeanty, 151, 162

_Servi_, 23-25, 26-36, 325, 519

_Servi_, Price of, 44

Services due from book-land, 294

Services of geneat, 328-332

Services of Oswald's tenants, 306

Services of sokemen, 76

Services of villeins, 56

_Sextarius_, 365

Sheep, 442

Sheriff, 8, 205, 255

Sheriff, Revenues of, 169

Shots in fields, 380

Shrewsbury, 199, 207

_Singulare pretium_, 274

Sinuous furrows, 379

Slavery, _see Servi_

Socage, Tenure in, 66

_Sochemanni_, 23-25, 62, 66-79, 95, 104, 125-6, 134-5, 213

Soke, 67-69, 80-107, 115, 258-292

_Solta et persolta_, 290

Somerset, 116, 166, 177, 215, 367, 479

Southwark, 98

Square measure, 370, 432

Staffordshire, 426

Stages, Theory of normal, 345

Stamford, 199, 200, 211

Staines, 111, 181

Staninghaw, 181

Statistical Tables, 400-3

Statistics, Domesday, 399

Stipulation, 250

Stock on manors, 116, 422

Stoke by Hisseburn, 330

Strip-holding, 337, 346

Sub-commendation, 74

Subinfeudation, 155

Subsidiary liability, 126

_Suburbium_, 214

Suffolk, 62, 77, 106, 117, 125-6, 147, 429, 483

Suit of court, 85, 95, 140, 322

Suitors borrowed, 95, 102

Sulung, 360, 395, 466, 484

Sunbury, 111

Superficial measurement, 370, 432

Surnames of vills, 14, 365, 367

Sussex, 510, 513

Swine, 419, 442

Tacitus on land-tenure, 347

Tackley, Map of, 381

_Tagwerk_, 377

Tailla, 57, 147

Taunton, 87, 102, 113, 158, 214, 272, 276, 499

Team, Plough, 142, 372, 416

Teamland, 404, 418-446

Tenure, Dependent, 46, 73, 151, 154, 171, 317

Tenure in boroughs, 178

Tenure, Kinds of, 151

Terminology of D. B., 8

_Terra ad unam carucam_, 404, 418-446

Testamentary power, 242, 297

_Teste meipso_, 264

Testimony of villeins, 53

Tewkesbury, 55

Thanet, Isle of, 509

Thegn, 64-5, 160-6

Thegnage, 308

Theow, 26-36

Thing and person, 27

Third penny, 95, 170

Three field system, 365, 486

Three life leases, 303

Thumbs as measures, 369

Tidenham, 330

Tithe, 322

Torksey, 177

Township, _see_ Vill

Township moot, 21, 350

Townsmen, 59, 140, 288

Trevs, Celtic, 15, 340

Tribal Hidage, The, 455, 506-8

_Tributarii_, 335, 359

_Tributum_, 234, 239, 272

_Trinoda necessitas_, 240, 270-4

Tún, 59, 110

_Twelfhindi_, 44

Twelve-fold bót, 290, 322

Two field system, 365, 486

_Ulna_, The king's, 370

Undersettles, 41

Unhidated estates, 448

Uniformity of villages, 390

Usufruct, 299

Utware, 158

Values, Domesday, 411, 444, 463-473

_Vassallus_, 293

_Vavassores_, 81

Vendible soke, 100

Verge of the palace, 184

_Vicecomes_, 8

_Victus_, The king's, 234

_Vicus_, 333

Vill and borough, 173, 185, 216

Vill and village, 11-21, 129-150, 346-356

_Villa_ and _vicus_, 333

_Villa_, The Roman, 221, 327, 337

Villages, Detached portions of, 367

_Villani_, 23, 36-66, 125-6, 172, 324

_Villani_, Teams of, 416

_Villani_ and _Servi_, 26, 30, 172

Vineyards, 375

_Virga regalis_, 375, 516

Virgate, 384-7, 391

Wallingford, 98, 176, 179, 193

Wall-work, 188

_Wara_, 123

Wardship and marriage, 310

_Warnode_, 123

Warranty of man by lord, 71

Warwick, 98, 156, 209, 218

Warwickshire, 169, 459

Washingwell, The grant of, 245, 255

Week-work, 77

Well, Wapentake of, 103

Wergild of ceorl, 44

Wergild of serf, 31

Wergild of thegn, 16

Wessex, Hides of, 507

Westminster, Church of, 111, 290, 452

Westminster Hall, 192

Wetherley, Hundred of, 95, 131

Wheat, Yield of, 437

Whittlesford, 444-5

Wicks, 115, 333

Wight, Isle of, 233, 509

Wiggenhall, 367

Wihtræd, Privilege of, 271

_Wikarii_, 115

Wiltshire, 175, 215, 475, 479

Winchcombe, 174, 180

Winchester, 178, 180, 182, 190-1

Winchester, Church of, 272, 331, 496-9

_Wintoniensis, Codex_, 331, 499

Witan, 247-252

Wites, Ecclesiastical, 281

Wites, The right to, 87, 259, 274-9

Withdrawal from lord, 47, 48, 68, 100, 142, 153, 162

Witnesses of charters, 247-252, 262-4

Wong, 380

Woods, 348, 419

Worcester, 190, 194

Worcester, Church of, 88, 158-160, 194, 227, 424, 452

Worcestershire, 88, 159, 169, 267-8, 451, 506

Words of inheritance, 297

Works and rents, 57-8, 77

Writ and charter, 262-4

Wye, Hundred of, 97

Yard, 372, 385

Yardland, 385

Yield of corn, 437, 441, 444, 519

Yoke, 360

York, 211

York, Church of, 87

Yorkshire, 139, 397, 426, 468, 486

Young, Arthur, 378, 438

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Transcriber's note:

The 3rd note on p. 79 is referenced twice on the page. Only the second reference seems pertinent. The first instance has been removed. This occurs, presumably purposefully, in several other places, particularly in tabular data.

Punctuation which was obviously missing has been supplied. The following table lists any corrections made or possible printer errors that should be noted. The bracketed text indicates what has been removed, added or noted.

p. viii. deme[ns]e/deme[sn]e Corrected.

p. 96 ad tercium denarium.['] Added.

p. 121 such [as] we are familiar with _sic_

p. 128 [']in Berningham a free man Added.

p. 200 we read ["/']Lagemanni et burgenses Corrected.

p. 391 in the thirteenth century when[,] we begin Deleted.

p. 396 terrae et 1 virg.['] Added.

p. 440 Domesday of St. Paul's, 164[*] Purpose of
Note 1448 asterisk?

p. 448 royal estates do not stand alone[.] Added.

p. 552 Deme[ns]e/Deme[sn]e Corrected.

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