A. D. 1066. 297 



ous accounts, £31 : 1 ■.4, and 6 ' fextaria' of honey ; it alfo provided a 

 bear, and fix dogs for the bear. 



Gernemua (Tarmouth) had 70 burgefles, and paid £2"] by tale to the 

 king and the earl. 



The burgh of Tetford (Tbetford) contained 943 burgefles, paying all 

 cufl:oms to the king. The king and the earl drew jTzo by tale. The 

 king alfo received 4 fextaria of honey, and 40 pennies, with ro hides of 

 goats, and four hides of oxen. 



In the burgh of Gepefwiz {Ipfivicb) there were 808 burgeffes paying 

 cuftom to the king, 41 under Robert the fon of Wimarc, and 4 under 

 Roger de Ramis. The coiners paid ^4. 



Dunewic (Dunwich) had 120 burgefles, and paid £\o*. 



London and Winchefler are entirely omitted in Domefday book ; 

 but it feems probable that they, together with York and Exeter, enjoy- 

 ed exemptions from fome taxations payable by the other cities of the 

 kingdom, which, with refped to London, will further appear from the 

 charter of William I to that city. [See above in Exeter.] 



From Domefday book, compared with the charter of Edward I in 

 the year 1278 to the Cinque ports, there is reafon to believe that the 

 fervice of fliips and men was required of thofe ports (certainly of Do- 

 ver, and apparently of Sandwich) in the time of Edward the ConfefTor, 

 and perhaps earlier, and that the privileges granted in return for thofe 

 fervices are of the fime antiquity. It is probable that the numbers of 

 fhips, &c. was changed from time to time according to the condition of 

 the towns, efpecially if Sandwich, which afterwards furniflied only five 

 fhips, furniflied twenty in Edward's time f . [See Charters of the Cinque 

 ports^ is'c. by Samuel yeakes.l 



All the cities and burghs of England appear to have been the pro- 

 perty of the king, or other patrons or over-lords, to whom the inhabit- 

 ants looked up for protedion, and whofe fuperiorlty they acknowleged 

 by payment of a rent or burgh-mail. Every city and burgh had its 

 own particular conflitution, and was governed by one or more magif- 

 trates under the controul of the over-lord. In the firft or fecond year 

 of Edward the Confeffor the city of London appears to have had one 

 chief magiftrate, called "a. port-geref (i. e. ruler of the city), whofe name 

 was Wolfgar. Between the year 1051 and the end of his reign we find 

 the name of Swetman, alfo a fingle port-geref : and in his laft year 

 there were two port-gerefs, leemingly co-ordinate, called Leofftane and 

 Alffie. \Charters quoted in St civ's Survey, pp. 847, 913, ed. 161 8.] It 



* In thefe extrails from Domerday book I have are evidently not the genuine, but tlie affefted 



been careful to preferve the diftinftion of city, Latin, appellations ufcd by the writers of the age. 

 burgh, Sec. as they (land in the ovig'nal. The f The fervices due by Sandwich are not clearly 



fpelling of the names is alfo exatlly follovced, cxprefled in Domefday book, 

 though fomc of them, as Cantuaria, Exonia, &c. 



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