3o6 A. D. 1086. 



In Norwic there are 665 Englifh burgeffes paying cuftoms, and 480 

 * hordarii *,' who are too poor to pay any thing. It pays £'^0 by weight 

 to the king, and 1 00 (hillings of gerfum to the queen, and a gofhawk f 

 (' nflurconem') and;(^2i to the earl. In the new burgh there were 36 

 French and 6 Englifh burgeffes, each paying one penny of cuflom year- 

 ly. There are now 41 French burgeffes in the king's and earl's de- 

 mefnes. Roger Bigot has 50 burgeffes, and fome other fuperiors have 

 fmaller numbers. The bifhop may have one coiner if he pleafes. 



Gernemua {Yarmouth) pays/^17 : 16 : 4 of white money to the king» 

 befides payments to the earl, fhirref, &c. Twenty-four fifhermen living 

 in this town belong to Gorlefton, a manor on the fouth iide of the River 

 Yare. 



In the burgh of Tetford there are 720 burgeffes, and 224 empty 

 houfes. It payS;i(^50 by weight to the king, and ;^20 of white money 

 with /^6 by tale to the earl. The king has alfo £\o from the coinage. 



In the burgh of Gipefwiz {Ipjwkh) there are no burgeffes paying 

 cuftoms, and 100 poor burgeffes unable to pay any geld to the king, 

 except one penny each for their heads. There are 328 houfes now 

 wafte, which yielded geld in the time of King Edward. The coiners 

 are now rated at/^20; but in the four laft years they have only paid 

 ^27 in all. 



Dunwic contains 236 burgeffes and 178 poor men. It is rated upon 

 the whole at ;^5o, and fixty thoufand herrings as a gift. 



From thefe extrads, compared with thofe of the reign of Edward, it 

 appears, that, though the towns were generally reduced in their build- 

 ings and population, moft: of them were charged with rents, cuftoms, 

 and other payments, vaftly higher than in the preceding period ; and 

 that the king was glaringly partial to his French fubjeds. 



The king poffeffed 1,422 manors enumerated in Domefday book, 

 and many detached farms, befides what he may have had in the north- 

 ern {hires, which are not inferted in Domefday book. From all thefe 

 he received his rents in the real produdions of the land. He had alfo 

 quit-rents from his vaffals, danegeld from the whole kingdom, rents, 

 dues, and perquifites of many denominations, from the towns, the cuf- 

 toms upon trade, the caiualties of wards, reliefs, forfeitures, efcheats, 

 fines, fees in courts of juftice, &c. which altogether made up a very 

 ample revenue. Hence, notwithftandlng his wars in France, and his 

 profufe gifts to the clergy, abroad as well as in England, William left in 

 his treafury a quantity of filver, which, when taken pofl'eHion of by his 

 fon, was found to weigh fixty thoufand pounds, befides gold, gems, and 

 very many other royal jewels. \li)gulpb^ p. 106, ed. Ga/e.] 



The wiiole lands of England were divided into 60,215 knight's fees, 



■ The antiquaries arc uncertain of tlic meaning of lori/iirii. 



f See Bkuni's anticht tcnurn, art. Peckliain. It 13 elfcwliere explained an Aftuiian liorfe. 



