Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

by Frederic William Maitland

[11] Ibid. 141.

[12] Ibid. 142.

[13] Ibid. 151.

[14] Ibid. 160–1.

[15] Ibid. 167.

[16] There is a valuable paper on this subject, A Short Account of Danegeld [by P. C. Webb published in 1756.]

[17] D. B. iv. 26, 489.

[18] In 1194 the tax for Richard’s ransom seems, at least in Wiltshire, to have been distributed in the main according to the assessment that prevailed in 1084; Rolls of the King’s Court (Pipe Roll Soc.) i. Introduction, p. xxiv.

[19] The statement in Æthelred, II. 7 (Schmid, p. 209) as to a payment of £22,000 is in a general way corroborative of the chronicler’s large figures.

[20] The figures will be given more accurately on a later page.