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In many cases an intermediate value is given the value 

 of the estate when it passed into the possession of its new 

 owner the value " quando recepit," Often these values are 

 less than the values "on the day when King Edward was 

 quick and dead." Mr. Baring has shown that from the 

 diminution in the values between January 5, 1066, and the 

 date when these estates were given to their new owners, we 

 can trace the line of the Conqueror's march from Hastings to 

 London. There is a band of wasted estates from Hastings 

 to Dover, thence to the neighbourhood of Canterbury, and 

 thence to Southwark. From Southwark there is a similar band 

 of wasted estates through Surrey and Berks, to Wallingford ; 

 and thence there are two lines of waste, as though the army 

 marched in two detachments to Berkhampstead, where, 

 according to the Chronicle, Edgar Atheling and the English 

 magnates submitted to the invader. And from a similar 

 comparison of the values of the estates in West Sussex, he 

 suggests that after the battle of Hastings, Duke William sent 

 his fleet to Chichester Harbour to lie in safety and guard his 

 right flank. 1 Similar reasoning convinces him that there is a 

 substratum of truth in the story of the destruction of villages 

 to form the New Forest, and he thinks that the line of wasted 

 estates down the right bank of the Cherwell shows the track 

 of the northern earls when they raided Oxfordshire in io65. 2 



In addition to the values and renders of the individual 

 manors in any county, Domesday Book often gives particulars 

 of the income the King derived from that county as a whole. 

 Thus we read 



" The County of Oxford renders the farm of three nights, that is, 

 ;i 50. From the augmentation, 2 5 by weight. From the borough, 

 20 by weight. From the Mint, 20 of pence of 20 to the ounce. 

 For arms, 4/-. From the Queen's gersuma, ioo/-. by tale. For a 

 hawk, ;TO. For a sumpter horse, 2o/-. For the hounds, 23 of 



1 E:H, R. y 1898, 17. 2 id., 1898, 295. 



