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Roda (148b) is called a villa because the whole is underlet. And 
seemingly if the demesne land came to have undertenants it was 
said to be villata. The villanus was not of necessity below the 
rank of thegn. In the Geld Roll for Chiu (Eyton I. 139) the 
King’s villani of Stocha claimed exemption for 64. 1v. Assuming 
these to be Roger under Wm. de Moione, Estochet (363b): Serlo 
de Burceio (452b), Cilela and Stocca: Aluuard and his brothers 
(491) Estoca: inferentially they claimed as undertenants of the 
King in the Manor of Chewstoke to be free of tax; but the 
Commissioners must have adjudged them to hold of the King in 
capite, and yet they had not lost their rank when holding as 
villani. In short the King’s Manor of Stocha was being dis- 
membered. 
When the survey was completed, as would seem in 58 parch- 
ment rolls of hundreds, with an index (folio 64), it was placed in 
custody of the Bishop and Canons of Exeter. 
THE DOMESDAY BOOK. 
No doubt the survey was made in the 2oth year of the reign 
of William 1st, but how is it proved that the transcription from 
the rolls now constituting Domesday do0k was completed at 
once? That there was not an interval of four years before the 
Exon Book had been sent to the Exchequer, and the Exchequer 
Book transcribed from it ? 
That the survey was made with a view only to future assess- 
ments of Danegeld we cannot think. Danegeld was becoming 
moribund, and died outright after 8 Hen. 2: no roll for this date, 
nor any indeed after 1084 exists—only the sum totals paid into 
the Exchequer, with a list of exemptions ever increasing, and 
including the King’s civil servants. 
We think, in short, that Domesday Book marks the first step in 
the direction of military tenure, of the feudal system, and that its 
arrangement in fiefs (as we may say by anticipation) points to 
this. 
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