220 THE DOMESDAY INQUEST 



Reference has been made to the passage in which the 

 Commissioners report St. Paul for invading lands at Nave- 

 stock, and the number of passages in which the bishops and 

 churches are reported for being in wrongful possession of 

 lands belonging to others, is a sign that the Commissioners 

 were determined to spare no wrong-doers, and were not pre- 

 judiced in favour of the Church. We have therefore the 

 more reason to believe their charges of high-handedness on 

 the part of Harold, and to disbelieve Ingulfs tale, that the 

 statistics of Crowland were omitted from Domesday Book 

 on account of his own personal influence with the Commis- 

 sioners and scribes. 



