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NOTES TO DOMESDAY MAP 



Compiled by J. HORACE ROUND, M.A. 



IN this map those manors in which the king had 

 an interest have a scarlet line under their names ; 

 a blue line denotes these in which the chief ecclesi- 

 astical tenant, namely, St Alban's Abbey, held land ; 

 a green line indicates the manors in which land 

 was held by the greatest lay tenant, Eustace, Count 

 of Boulogne. 



No attempt has been made to distinguish the 

 Domesday Hundreds, which were somewhat inter- 

 mixed, and of which the boundaries have changed. 

 They are dealt with in the Domesday Introduction. 



It should be remembered that the forms of 

 place-names often vary in Domesday, and that 

 only one variant can be given in each instance on 

 the map. There are also in this county several 

 Domesday names which it has not been possible 

 to identify, and which consequently do not appear 

 on the map. It should also be observed that the 

 boundaries of this and the adjoining counties are 

 for convenience of reference given as they now 

 stand, and are not always those of 1086. For the 

 same reason the names of the rivers are given in 

 their modern forms ; they are not mentioned in 

 Domesday. 



The Hertfordshire map is exceptionally instructive 

 in the contrast it exhibits between the north-east 

 of the county, with its numerous small manors, 

 and the few large manors of its south-western 

 portion. The latter consisted to a considerable 

 extent of large blocks of land given of old to St 

 Albans ; but, in addition to this tenurial difference, 

 there is reason to think that, at the time of Domes- 

 day, much of it was still forest land. The smaller 

 manors of the north-east had been largely, before 

 the Conquest, divided among ' sokemen,' as is 

 explained in the Domesday Introduction. An en- 

 deavour has been made to indicate on the map 

 the distribution of these ' sokemen ' by placing an 

 asterisk* against the names of these manors on 

 which they were found at the death of Edward 

 the Confessor. 



REFERENCE TO COLOURING 



Sing's Manors thus t'erlettme 



St Alban's Abbey's Manors ,, Eltii-Jtam 



Count Eustace of Boulogne's Manors ., Wazhflei 



HE CCUNTI ES OF ENGLAND 



