too THE BURTON CHARTULARY. 
Survey, but the list differs in some respects from the extant 
Domesday. Some valuable manors, such as Anslow in Stafford- 
shire, and Willington in Derbyshire, are not mentioned in the 
Survey ; and it is not unlikely that the monks, either by interest or 
by bribery, had obtained the suppression of some of their estates 
in the Survey as finally codified. 
On one important point, however, I think they have been 
maligned. Eyton states in his Staffordshire Domesday that they 
had procured the suppression of the whole of their home estate of 
Burton, amounting to nearly 6,000 acres. Iam inclined to believe 
that the following entry from Domesday refers to the abbatial 
manor of Burton, and the other members of Burton are included 
in the Domesday Survey. 
Under the Hundred of Pirehill, it will be seen that Domesday 
gives the following account of an estate of the Abbey in Stafford :— 
In villa de Stadford, Abbatia Sanctee Maric de Bertone tenet 
1 hidam et dimidiam. Terra est 2 carucate valet £3 10s. 
The Burton Chartulary contains at folio 3 what purports to be 
a copy of the Domesday Return of their estates. It is headed: Sze 
continetur super Domesday apud Wintoniam. 
Lcclesia Sancte Maria de Burtonein Staffordshire. In ipsa villa 
habet hidam et dimidiam. Terra est 2 carueate valet xl. solidos. 
It is not probable that the monks held so large an estate in the 
town of Stafford, and we find no trace of it in after years; * the 
error has arisen no doubt from a mistake of the clerk who compiled 
the fair copy of the Survey, and who, confounding Staffordsira with 
Staffordia, has assumed that the words “sd vil/é referred to 
Stafford instead of Burton. The Hundreds are wrongly rubricated 
in several other instances in the Survey.t 
* The Confirmation of Pope Lucius names among their possessions “erram 
in Staffordid ; but this may refer to the burgage tenements of the monks in 
Stafford, and which are named elsewhere in the Survey ; Wetmoor, Stretton, 
and Winshill, members of Burton, and which formed portions of the home 
estate, are accounted for in Domesday. 
+ There is another copy of the Domesday Return of the monks endorsed 
on King Ethelred’s Confirmation of Wulfric Spott’s will now at Beaudesert. 
This copy, which from the character of the handwriting appears to be coéval 
with Domesday, agrees in every particular with the Return in the Chartulary 
above quoted. 
