i 4 THE DOMESDAY INQUEST 



given to these statistics is the Domesday Inquest rather than 

 the Domesday Stirvey. 



The inquiry was made hundred by hundred, and a special 

 jury was empanelled for each hundred. Thus the jury for the 

 hundred of Staplehoe in Cambridgeshire was composed of 

 Nicholas of Kennet, William of Chippenham, Hugh of 

 Hesilinge, Warin of Saham, Robert the Englishman of Ford- 

 ham, Ordmar of Bellingham, Adam of Burwell, and Aluric of 

 Snailwell, Picot the sheriff, and the French and English. In 

 five other hundreds of Cambridge the hundred's m^prefectus 

 Jmndredi was one of the jurors, and in two or three cases the 

 record rounds off its lists by adding, as in Staplehoe, " and all 

 the other French and English of this hundred." From a 

 careful analysis of the names of the jurors in the Cambridge- 

 shire Inquest, Mr. Round has come to the conclusion that half 

 of them were English, and the other half were Normans: 

 " Conquerors and conquered were alike bound by their common 

 sworn verdicts." 1 



The same record gives us the questions that were put to 

 the jurors 



" i. What is the name of the mansion? 



" 2. Who held it in the time of King Edward? 



"3. Who now holds it? 



" 4. How many hides are there ? 



" 5. How many teams in demesne of the tenants? 



" 6. How many villans 2 cottars slaves ? 



" 7. How many freemen sokemen ? 



"8. How much wood meadow pasture? How many mills? 

 How many fisheries ? 



" 9. How much has been added or taken away ? 



" 10. How much was the whole worth? How much is it 

 worth now ? 



" ii. How much had or has each freeman or sokeman there? 



1 F. ., 120. 



2 For this spelling, see Chapter VII. 4. 



