[332]. This was the view of Professor Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, 24.
[333]. The contemporary description of the Domesday Survey published by Stevenson, E. H. R., xxii., 72, makes it probable that the bordars were in theory distinguished from other classes by the fact that they possessed no share in the arable fields of the vill.
[334]. See V. C. H., Hertford, i., 293.
[335]. V. C. H., Bedford, i., 200.
[336]. The former view is that of Mr. Round, the latter that of Professor Maitland.
[337]. We also know that the returns were checked in each county by a second set of commissioners who were deliberately sent by the king into shires where they possessed no personal interest.—E. H. R., xxii., 72.
[338]. Feudal England, 141.
[339]. Dialogus de Saccario (ed. 1902), p. 108.
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