562 THE COENWALL DOMESDAY AND GELD INQUEST. 



But the lot of the serf was not hopeless. The Bodmin 

 Gospels contain the entries of numerous grants of freedom to 

 slaves in the 10th and 11th centuries, thus : — 



" These are the names of the men whom King Edmund 

 freed upon the altar of St. Petrock : Tancwoystel, Weneriet, 

 before these witnesses, Wulf sie priest, Adoyre, Milian clerk ; and 

 on the same day he sent away free the woman Arganteilin before 

 the same witnesses." 



" Bishop Wulf sie freed Aedoc, daughter of Catgustel, for 

 his soul and King Edgar's, upon the altar of St. Petroc." 



It is noticeable in Domesday that the king had forty brewers 

 on his Manor of Henlistone. 



I have already stated that churches are not noticed in 

 Domesday, and Bodmin is the only town mentioned, where there 

 were 68 houses ; this does not prove that other towns did not 

 exist in Cornwall, but certainly no mention of them is made in 

 Domesday. 



Of castles there were two, Dunheved or Launceston, and 

 Trematon ; both belonging to the Earl of Mortain. 



There were markets at Bodmin, Liskeard, Trematon, and 

 St. Germans. At this latter place the market held on a Sunday, 

 which belonged to the Bishop and Canons of St. Germans, was 

 worth nothing, owing to the Earl of Mortain having established 

 a market at his own castle of Trematon, near, on the same day. 



Mills are mentioned at Conarditone, Cargau, Liskeard, 

 Treviscoit, and two at Dunheved ; whilst at Stratton there were 

 10 saltpans. With regard to the money, it was paid in three 

 di:fferent ways — 1st, by weight and assay, or weighed and burnt, 

 this was how the king's gold was collected, the suspected coin 

 being burnt in a crucible over a fire, and then weighed, as a safe- 

 guard against base money ; 2ndly, by weight only — the money 

 tendered being weighed, and twenty shillings accounted equal 

 to a pound — and 3rdly, by tale or count only. 



Generally, Cornwall seems to have been extremely under- 

 rated, doubtless, on account of its poverty ; and the land as a 

 rule appears to have much decreased in value ; except, curiously 

 to relate, those lands under the " dead hand of the Church," 

 where the values in the time of King William fairly corresponded 



