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under the supervision of Sir Henry Ellis, whose indices are 

 invaluable, though much of the matter contained in his intro- 

 duction has been superseded by subsequent investigation. In 

 1816 the Record Commission published a further volume, 

 containing the Ely Inquest, the Exeter Domesday, a survey 

 of Winchester under Henry I., and the Boldon Book ; but the 

 Cambridgeshire Inquest was not printed till 1870, when Mr. 

 Hamilton edited it, and collated it with the Exchequer 

 Domesday. 



Owing to the development of photography, and the intro- 

 duction of the process of photo-zincography by Sir Henry 

 James, the Director of the Ordnance Survey, facsimile repro- 

 ductions of the surveys of the various counties are now within 

 the reach of most pockets. These facsimiles should always be 

 consulted, for they reveal points that are not shown in the 

 printed edition ; for instance, the insertion of the lands of 

 William fitz Ansculf, on fol. 157 b I, is seen at a glance at the 

 facsimile, while the printed edition gives no indication that the 

 entries were omitted and afterwards inserted. The hand- 

 writing of Domesday is easily read after a few lessons ; and 

 with the aid now given to students in such works as Martin's 

 Record Intei'preter^ the contractions should be mastered in a 

 very short time. 



It will probably be of assistance to some students if we 

 transcribe and extend the page of which a facsimile is given as 

 a frontispiece to this volume. 1 



4. METHODS OF STUDY 



We propose in the following pages to take the various 

 questions propounded to the Cambridgeshire jurors, and by a 

 comparison of the answers given to them, as these answers are 

 digested in Domesday Book, to endeavour to ascertain the 

 meanings of the technical terms employed, and the nature of 

 the institutions represented by these terms. 

 1 See Appendix. 



