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The following questions, among others, were submitted to the 
jury :— 
1.—What is the name of this manor? Who was its tenant 
T.R.E.? Who is the present tenant ? 
2.— What geld did this manor pay, T.R.E. ? 
3.—How much land is there in this manor ? 
4.—How many geld hides in demesne? How many have the 
villani ? 
5.—How many carruce in demesne? How many in the villa? 
6.—What lands have been added since T.R.E.? What lands 
taken away ? 
Other questions of detail are omitted, as not pertinent to the 
general principle. 
It may, perhaps, be convenient to anticipate somewhat after 
results, and notice in the first place, 
1.—The phrase “‘T.R.E.” used in the Exchequer copy meant 
“in the time of King Edward the Confessor ;” its equivalent 
in the Exon Book is “ea die qua Eduuardus rex fuit vivus et 
mortuus””—on the day of King Edward’s death—and we think 
Domesday hence derives its name: the Saxon word dém is 
equivalent to the modern doom. The sum paid for geld dates 
back to the Confessor’s time, and ignores the assessment of 1084. 
2.—The meaning of the word land (terra) in question (3) 
cannot be too carefully noted. The Exon and Exchequer books 
in every case give us the headings of the tenants in capite—Terra 
—land (of the Bishop of Coutances, &c.). Even in case of the 
King’s lands it is “terra” in all cases but one, and there it is 
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““Dominicatus Regis;” and in this one the Exchequer writes 
“Terra Regis.” When portions are taken from, or added to a 
manor, universally these are “terra.” ‘“‘ Terre occupate ” is the 
general heading. Beyond all question, then, zevra here denotes 
the whole of the measurable land held by each Baron, or thegn 
though not, as we think, the waste. Coming to details, the lands 
held directly of them by their tenants in the several manors, what 
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