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1084 assessment, and sometimes not. In the case of Ciuuetona 
(114b) the Geld Roll certainly entered 29 hides, not 14. 
The Church Barons, according to their rank, follow the King, 
and it will be well to mark the order in the Exchequer Book fac- 
simile (p. IV.). Kelston does not appear among the lands of the 
Abbess of St. Edward (193b) ; inferentially it was not yet formally 
separated from the 20 hides of the Borough of Bath. Lands 
given to the Holy men or Clergy of the King should be carefully 
_ noted ; the spiritual needs of his manors were well regarded, each 
had its church and chapelries. No doubt from notices of clerics 
and presbyters in the Bishop’s land, the same care may be inferred. 
We doubt very much whether many of the larger lay manors had 
their churches. That parishes did not yet exist is forced upon us 
by Domesday. We read, indeed, of parochiant presbyteri, but 
parochus was the diocese, and parochiani presbyteri were the 
Bishop’s Chaplains. (See Geld Roll of Episcopal hundred, Eyton, 
p- 142.) The Lord of a Manor by the law of the Church must 
pay tithes, to whom they were paid was left to his discretion, 
sometimes to a monastery, sometimes to a baptismal church, and 
in return, perhaps, itinerant priests ministered in the manor. We 
note as a remarkable fact that between the years 1259 and 
1286, 88 churches were dedicated (‘“‘ Randolph’s Bronescombe,” 
p. XII.) in the diocese of Exeter—were they not previously the 
private property of the manors ? 
The King had in hand both in 1084 and 1086 the Glastonbury 
estates, and alienated to a great extent the thegnlands belonging 
to the Abbey. The concluding entries from 172b—Limigtona 
and onwards—are not surveyed in detail (as Eyton observes II. 33), 
but the reason is obvious, they are alienations, and the details are 
given under the holdings of the new owners, as the marginal 
references plainly show. 
Next in order come the lands of the lay barons according to 
their rank, commencing with the King’s relatives. In Suttona 
(435b), at the end of Roger de Courcelle’s land is an omission, 
entered on revision, observe in a different handwriting. 
