NOTE 



The translation here given is taken from the text of the Exeter 

 MS. and collated with the Exchequer MS. 



In the translation the ever-recurring phrase 'on the day on 

 which King Edward was alive and dead ' — in contemporary English 

 ' On ]7am timan J^e Eadward cing waes cucu and dead ' (Freeman, 

 Norman Conquest, v, 743) — is expressed for the sake of brevity by 

 the letters T. R. E. {tempore Regis Edwardt), that being the formula 

 used throughout the Exchequer Domesday. 



For brevity's sake the ' ands ' which superabound in the text have 

 been mostly omitted. 



Usually where a place-name ends in a in the Exeter book, an e is 

 found in the Exchequer copy. 



There is some difference in the order in which the fiefs follow one 

 another between the Exeter and the Exchequer books, and slight 

 differences in the arrangement of the crown manors, which are 

 noted from time to time. 



It should be borne in mind that the date of the Domesday Survey 

 is 1086, that the day on which King Edward was alive and dead 

 was 5 January, 1066, that the hide was the unit of assessment on 

 which the (Dane)geld was paid, that the virgate was a quarter of a 

 hide and a ferling a quarter of a virgate. A plough-land consisted of 

 as much land as 8 oxen could cultivate ; in this county it contained 

 4 ferlings of land ; and a ferling of land is by later authorities con- 

 stantly identified with 16 acres. The Domesday manor consists of 

 demesne and villagers' land. Demesne is the lord's home farm, 

 villagers' land is the land occupied by his dependents on condition 

 of cultivating the lord's home farm for him. 



As regards identifications it should be noted that the modern 

 manor or parish, of which the name is given in square brackets, 

 is not necessarily co-extensive with its Domesday equivalent. The 

 latter in many cases included many subsequent sub-infeudations, 

 and was therefore of considerably greater extent than thb later 

 manor. In other cases the Domesday manor was only a portion of 

 the estate of which it bore the name, and many of these portions 

 at a later date became known by other names. The determination ' 

 of the exact identity and extent of each Domesday estate is reserved 

 for treatment in the topographical section of this History. 



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