i;6 THE DOMESDAY INQUEST 



Hertfordshire, and "guorts" in Middlesex. Hence we can 

 understand how it was that Harold forcibly made a fishery 

 at Kingston-on-Thames on land belonging to St. Paul's 

 Cathedral. 1 Evidently he put a weir in the Thames where 

 previously there was none, and that, too, not on his own land, 

 but on that of his neighbour. Mr. Seebohm has illustrated 

 the "puttchers" for catching salmon on the Wye, 2 and Mr. 

 Round has identified the fisheries belonging to the manors on 

 the Essex coasts with the sea-hedges on the shore, which are 

 still used by the fishermen of those parts. 3 Possibly some of 

 the fisheries on the Sussex coasts were of a similar nature, as 

 I have seen stake-nets in use at Felpham in the west, and 

 Bulverhythe in the east of that county. In several manors of 

 Cheshire a rent was derived from the boat and net. 



5. THE BURGESSES 



Chief among the appurtenances of the manor, which were 

 not enumerated in the questions propounded to the Cam- 

 bridgeshire jurors, were the town houses and burgesses which 

 were appurtenant to some rural manors. I have dealt with 

 them in another work, and have there given lists of villages 

 which " contributed " burgesses or houses to certain boroughs 

 in their neighbourhood, and in some cases have given maps 

 showing how such villages lay in the neighbourhood of these 

 boroughs. In many counties we find in the middle of the 

 statistics relating to a rural manor, "one burgess, or one 

 house, in Chichester," Winchester, or Gloucester, to quote 

 only three of the " composite " boroughs. It is invariably the 

 rule that, except where a borough lies on the borders of two 

 counties, the villages contributing to it lie in the county in 

 which it lies. Moreover, in the case of those boroughs to 

 which no village is definitely said to contribute, a list is given 



1 D. B., I. 31 a i. 2 E. V. C., 154. 



3 V. C. H. t Essex, i. 424. 



