CHAPTER I 



DOMESDAY STATISTICS 



" Caeterum tota vita ita fortunatus fuit, vt exteras & 

 remotae gentes, nihil magis, quam nomen eius timerent. 

 Prouinciales adeo nutu suo substrauerat, vt sine ulla contra- 

 dictione primus censura omnium capitum ageret, omnium 

 praedioru redditus in tota Anglia notitiae suae per scriptum 

 adiiceret, omnes liberos homines cuiuscunq; essent, suse 

 fidclitati sacramento adigeret." 



[Willielmi Malmesburiensis, 

 cura H. Sauile.] 



DOMESDAY BOOK gives much informa- f n P ulation 

 tion which can be displayed in statistical counties, 

 tables to wit, as to population, plough- 

 teams, ploughlands, hidage, past and present values: 

 it should be borne in mind that thirty- four coun- 

 ties are enumerated ; of the remaining six, Mon- 

 mouth was then in Wales, Northumberland and 

 Durham are not found: in the Yorkshire " Survey " 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland are slightly noticed, 

 and most of North Lancashire, the remainder of 

 that county being found under Cheshire. For fuller 

 information as to the recorded population, reference 

 can be made to Ellis' " Introduction to Domesday 

 Book " (i 833), from which the underwritten figures 

 are taken: in the thirty-four counties (as then 



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