INTRODUCTION. 



'T^HIS pamphlet aims at providing students of the manorial 

 and agrarian history of England during the Middle Ages 

 with a list of some printed original materials that may be useful in 

 their work. Some of the sources, however, from which students will 

 draw are purposely omitted from these pages. To have made the 

 list complete in this respect would have been needless, as well as 

 laborious, since these sources are well known and are indexed. 

 Among the works which might be looked for here, but to which 

 no further reference is made, are the following : — 



Domesday Book. This collection of inquisitions of estates 

 throughout all England except the counties of Cumberland, 

 Northumberland, Durham, and Westmoreland was finished in 

 1086. Two volumes were published in 1783 and two in 18 16 

 by the English government. The fourth volume contains in its 

 appendix the Exon Domesday, relating to the counties of Wilts, 

 Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, and supposed to be a 

 transcript of the original returns of the commissioners from which 

 Domesday was compiled ; the Inqiiisitio Eliensis, a similar doc- 

 ument relating to possessions of the monastery of Ely; and the 

 Wmiofi Domesday, an inquest taken between 1 107 and 1128 

 concerning lands of Edward the Confessor in Winchester. The 

 Itiqnisitio Comitates Caiitabrigiensis contains the original returns 

 made by the jurors of the county of Cambridge at the time of 

 the Domesday inquest. It was published by Mr. N. E. S. A. 

 Hamilton in 1876. 



The Hundred Rolls, 1279, describe manors in Bedfordshire, 

 Bucks, Cambridgeshire, Hunts, and Oxfordshire. They were 

 printed by the Record Commission, 1818. 



