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other cases we find the marks and +, calling attention to 

 entries of omitted estates, and at other times these estates are 

 entered in the margin ; sometimes new sheets of parchment 

 have been inserted on which the omitted entries are written ; 

 thus fol. 33 was inserted to receive the details of three Surrey 

 estates which Hamo, the Sheriff of Kent, held under the Abbot 

 of Chertsey, for which there was no room on fol. 32. Some- 

 times it is only a detail that is omitted, and in such cases there 

 are often marginal notes calling attention to the omissions ; 

 thus on fol. 247 a I the numbers of hides and teams at Huste- 

 done are omitted, and in the margin is a note " rq qt terrce? 

 which means " inquire how many lands." Occasionally there 

 are duplicate entries, usually of estates to which the title was 

 disputed. Hardouin of Eschalers' holding of 2| hides at 

 Swaffham is entered in two places : once it appears among 

 the lands he held of the King ; x but it also appears among the 

 lands of the Abbey of Ely, which claimed that Hardouin held 

 this land as its tenant. 2 Sometimes, even, lands are entered in 

 the wrong county. The Oxfordshire estates of the Bishop of 

 Coutances have accidentally slipped into the Northampton- 

 shire Domesday. 3 



The liability to these mistakes was diminished by a device 

 of the Yorkshire scribes in the compilation of a rough index, 

 giving a list of the properties in each hundred, with the names 

 of the owners of these estates written in over the line ; 4 but 

 there is no evidence of a similar index having been compiled 

 for any other county. 



For some reason or other there are more serious omis- 

 sions in Domesday Book. London, Winchester, Bristol, and 

 Tamworth are four boroughs that were omitted, and we have 

 only incidental allusions to their existence. Wells is also 

 omitted, and although the possessions of the Abbey of Crow- 

 land are described, yet Crowland itself is omitted. Ingulf the 

 1 D. B., 1. 199 a 2. 2 id., i. 190 b 2. 



3 Id., 221 a i. Id. 379. 



