f. Taxation or Subsidy Rolls, Nos. 1946-84. g. Memoranda, Originalia, and Fine Rolls, Nos. 1985-92. There is an account of the chief revenue rolls in F. S. Thomas's Ancient Exchequer (London, 1848), 61-92. See also Joseph Redington's Account of the Miscellaneous Records of the Queen's Remembrancer, Deputy Keeper's Reports, 1879, xl. 467-79; Martin's Index and Palgrave's Kalendars (Nos. 475, 479); and, for modern works on the exchequer and revenue, §§ 18, 66. a. DOMESDAY BOOK AND SUPPLEMENTARY SURVEYS. Domesday Book was compiled in 1086. The material was collected by royal commissioners, probably in the shire courts, from the verdicts of local juries. This information was reduced to writing, and, having been rearranged and digested, was embodied in two volumes usually designated the Exchequer Domesday. The actual survey seems to have been made hundred by hundred, whereas Domesday Book, excepting Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, contains only abstracts of the survey rearranged under the names of tenants-in-chief: all the lands of each tenant-in-chief of the crown are given under his name, no matter in what hundred they may be. The first volume, sometimes called Great Domesday, containing 382 folios, includes thirty counties; the second, called Little Domesday, a smaller volume of 450 folios, comprises longer reports of Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Round believes that the Little Domesday was a first attempt at the codification of the returns,' and that a new plan of arrangement was adopted for Great Domesday. The counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Durham are not included in the survey, but parts of Cumberland and Westmorland are comprised in Yorkshire. Lancashire and Rutland were not yet shires, but their area is dealt with under Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Northamptonshire. 'Domesday is a geld book, a tax book. Geldability, actual or potential, is its main theme.' The survey was intended primarily to ascertain the assessments for the payment of the king's geld and to prevent the evasion of its payment. Incidentally it furnishes a vast mass of details regarding the classes of society, land tenures, social life, and legal institutions of England, before and after the Norman Conquest. The Exchequer Domesday is supplemented by other records, which may be divided into three groups : 1. The Exon Domesday (a survey of the five south-western shires), the Inquest of Ely, and the Inquest of Cambridgeshire (Nos. 1884, 1893-6, 1909, 1912). These records seem to be fuller copies or digests of the original returns of the royal commissioners from which the Exchequer Domesday was compiled. 2. The geld inquests of Northamptonshire and the five southwestern counties (Nos. 1884, 1891, 1895, 1906, 1909). They record two assessments of Danegeld made between 1066 and 1084. 3. Various local surveys of the twelfth century, notably Liber Winton, Boldon Book (Nos. 1898, 1901), and four surveys which seem to be connected with the assessment of Danegeld in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Worcestershire (Nos. 1903-4, 1907, 1913). Among the older works on Domesday, those deserving particular mention are two brief essays by P. C. Webb, one entitled A Short Account of some Particulars concerning Domesday, 1756, and the other on Danegeld (No. 1590); Robert Kelham's Domesday Book Illustrated, 1788; Ellis's Introduction (No. 1886); J. F. Morgan's England under the Norman Occupation (No. 2821); Freeman's Norman Conquest, vol. v. ch. xxii. and appendix. The scholarly works of Eyton (Nos. 1887, 1897, 1909-10) have added much to our knowledge of the subject; and a still greater advance in the scientific study of the survey has been made in recent years by the researches of Maitland and Round (Nos. 1889, 1891). A brief contemporary account of the survey is printed by W. H. Stevenson in the English Historical Review, 1907, xxii. 72-84; and Vinogradoff's English Society and Stenton's Manorial Structure (Nos. 1240a, 1562) are essentially studies of Domesday. For incomplete bibliographies of the Domesday literature, see Nos. 1885, 1885a. For Domesday boroughs and hundreds, see Nos. 1563, 1571. The extensions and translations of the following portions of Domesday are useful, especially for the identification of place names Cambridgeshire (extension and Beamont, 1863; 2nd ed., 1882. Cornwall, 1861 (extension); 1875 (translation). Derbyshire, by Llewellynn Jewitt, 1871. Devon, by J. B. Rowe: No. 1895. Essex, by T. C. Chisenhale-Marsh, 1864. Hampshire, by Henry Moody, 1862. Huntingdonshire, 1864 (translation Kent, by L. B. Larking: No. 1902. Middlesex, 1862; by P. Harrison, Northamptonshire, by S. A. Moore, 1863. Suffolk (extension and translation), by J[ohn] H[ervey]: No. 1910a. Surrey, 1862. Sussex, by W. D. Parish: No. 1911. Warwickshire, by William Reader, 1835; 2nd ed., by E. P. Shirley, Wiltshire, by W. H. [R.] Jones: Worcestershire [by W. B. Sanders], Yorkshire (translation only), by For the full titles of these works, see the printed catalogue of the library of the British Museum under 'Domesday Book.' The most valuable of them are given below under the names of the counties (Nos. 1892-1914a). A text or a translation, with introduction, map, and index, to the Domesday survey of each county; is appearing in the Victoria History of the Counties of England (No. 839). For the following counties the survey has already been published: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Essex, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire. The introductions (many of them by J. H. Round) are of more than local interest. General. 1884. *Domesday book seu Liber censualis Wilhelmi Primi regis Angliæ [ed. Abraham Farley]. 2 vols. [London, 1783.] Vols. iii.-iv. [ed. Henry Ellis], Record Com., [London], 1816.Domesday book, photozincographed facsimile. 33 [35] pts. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1861-64. The best edition is that of 1783-1816. Vol. i. contains: Vol. ii. Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk. Vol. iii. Indexes and general introduction. See No. 1886. Vol. iv. Additamenta : Exon Domesday, Inquisitio Eliensis, Liber Winton, Boldon Book. The For the last three of these surveys, see Nos. 1893, 1898, 1901. Exon Domesday, preserved among the muniments of the dean and chapter of Exeter, gives an account of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, and Wilts, derived directly or indirectly from the verdicts of the Domesday jurors; it contains some particulars omitted from the Exchequer Domesday. At the beginning of the MS. (pp. 1-75 of Ellis's edition) we find the Inquisitio Geldi, an inquest for the assessment of a Danegeld levied in 1084 on the hundreds of these five counties. 1884a. BALLARD, ADOLPHUS. The Domesday inquest. London, [1906]. Valuable. See also his Domesday Boroughs (No. 1563). 1884b. BARING, F. H. Domesday tables for the counties of Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex, Hertford, Buckingham, and Bedford, and for the New Forest. London, 1909. The appendix contains papers (originally published in the English Historical Review, 1898, 1905, 1907) relating to William's march from Hastings to London, and to the battle of Hastings. On William's march, see G. J. Turner, ibid., 1912, xxvii. 209-25. 1885. BIRCH, Walter de Gray. Domesday book. London, etc., 1887; 2nd edition, 1908. A popular account. Bibliography, 315-24. 1885a. Domesday studies: papers read at the meeting of the Domesday commemoration, 1886, ed. P. E. Dove. 2 vols. London, 1888-91. The study of Domesday, by Stuart Danegeld and finance, by J. H. The ploughland, by Isaac Taylor, Measures of land, by J. H. Round, i. 189-225. Unit of assessment, by O. C. Pell, i. 227-385, ii. 561-619. An early reference to Domesday, Some of these essays, especially those of Round, are valuable. On the early custody of Domesday, see also the papers by Round and Hall in the Antiquary, 1887, xv. 246-9, xvi. 8-12, 62-64. Round continues his discussion of measures of land in the Archæological Review, 1888-89, i. 285-95, iv. 130-40. See also No. 1891. 1886. ELLIS, HENRY. General introduction to Domesday book. Record Com. 2 vols. [London], 1833. An older edition will be found in vol. iii. of Domesday (No. 1884). Ellis gives useful statistics compiled from the great survey. 1887. EYTON, R. W. Notes on Domesday. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society, 1877. London, etc., 1880. pp. 20. See Nos. 1897, 1909-10. 1887a. INMAN, A. H. Domesday and feudal statistics. London, 1900. 1888. KELHAM, ROBERT. London, 1788. Domesday book illustrated. The best of the older works on Domesday. Glossary, 145-369. 1889. *MAITLAND, F. W. Domesday book and beyond. Cambridge, 1897; reprinted, 1907. Domesday, 1–219. Deals with its plan, the various classes of persons and tenures which it mentions, the manors, boroughs, etc. The best analysis of the contents of Domesday. See No. 1891. 1890. POLLOCK, FREDERICK English Hist. Review, xi. 209-30. A good short account. 1891. *ROUND, J. H. reprinted 1909. A brief survey of Domesday. Feudal England. London, 1895; Domesday, 3-146. Northamptonshire geld roll, 106675, PP. 147-56. Knights of Peterborough, Hen. I., 157-68. Worcestershire survey, Hen. I., 169-80. Lindsey survey, 1115-18, pp. 181- Leicestershire survey, II24-29, Northamptonshire survey, Hen. I.- Round propounds the new theory that the assessment of land in Domesday is based on the five-hide unit in south England and on the six carucate unit among the Danes in the north. He also throws light on other problems: for example, on the relations of the inquests of Ely and |