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later. In Cornwall we find forty cervisiarii, who were either 

 brewers or men whose rents were paid in beer. At Westbury 

 there were five mellitarii, who would appear to have paid a 

 honey rent for their land : * such a rent was not uncommon, as 

 will be seen later. In Northamptonshire there were iron- 

 workers (ferrarii\ and in Bedfordshire were five potters 

 (figiili). 



In almost every county were a few tenants who paid a 

 money rent ; they were called censores, censuarii> or gablatores ; 

 but all told they number only 166. 



In Wilts, Somerset, and Shropshire there appears a class 

 of cosets, or coscets, who are usually reckoned as cottagers ; but 

 Archdeacon Hale suggests that the word is a corruption of 

 casearius, and classes the persons to whom it is applied as 

 cheesemakers. 



In Table C is printed a slightly rearranged abstract of 

 Sir Henry Ellis's figures, showing the numbers of the various 

 classes mentioned in Domesday Book. 



4. THE POST-DOMESDAY EVIDENCE 



For the purposes of comparison with Domesday Book, 

 the three series of manorial extents contained in the cartu- 

 laries of Burton and Peterborough Abbeys are the most 

 valuable evidence that we have. The two extents relating 

 to the manors of Burton Abbey are shown by Mr. Round 2 

 to approximately date from between the years 1116 and 

 1133; and the Peterborough extent, known as the Liber 

 Niger, must have been compiled between the years 1125 

 and 1128; so that all three extents show the condition of 

 the manors therein surveyed within half a century of the 

 compilation of Domesday Book. 



In order to assist our comparison, it will be better to 

 print side by side the surveys of one of the Peterborough 



1 D. B., I. 65 a 2. 2 E. H. R., 1905, 275, etc. 



