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the foot of the first column on fo. 3 5^, and in the midst, apparently, of 

 the fief of Richard de Tunbridge, there are found a few entries, 

 occupying seven lines, which have no connection with that fief. They 

 seem to have crept in from the return for Copthorne Hundred, from 

 which the scribe was abstracting the entries relating to that fief. The 

 process of rearrangement was a task of great difficulty, complicated by 

 the fact that, for fiscal purposes, the Hundred was the recognized unit, 

 while land which paid its ' geld ' as a portion of one Hundred, might, 

 from the lord's standpoint, belong to a manor in another. This, as will 

 be seen in the Surrey Survey, frequently involved a cross-reference, and 

 even occasionally led to estates being overlooked, especially where there 

 was a doubt as to which fief they belonged to. This is the explanation 

 of the extra leaf inserted in the Surrey Survey to contain the entries of 

 some lands belonging to Chertsey Abbey which had, in the first instance, 

 been omitted. Other traces of the difficulties involved will be found on 

 fo. 36, where the entry on Balham, which constituted the sole holding, 

 in Surrey, of Geoffrey Orlateile, has been added, as an afterthought, in 

 the margin, possibly because it had been held over on the ground that 

 Geoffrey could not show by what right he held it. On the same folio an 

 omitted manor of Walter Fitz Other has had to be inserted at the tail of 

 Geoffrey de Mandeville's fief; Walter de Douai's land is entered without 

 the usual heading ; and the third manor of Edward of Salisbury has had 

 to be crowded in at the foot of the second column. The searching in- 

 vestigation to which the Great Survey is now being subjected for the 

 first time for the purpose of these County Histories, will doubtless 

 reveal much that has hitherto remained obscure ; but there is no 

 reason to suppose that even the keenest scrutiny will lessen our admir- 

 ation for so vast an enterprise, or the gratitude we feel to those who have 

 bequeathed us a unique possession. 



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