[21] Cheshire pays no geld to the king. This loss is compensated by a sum which is sometimes exacted from Northumberland.
[22] D. B. ii. 109 b: ‘Hundret de Grenehou 14 letis.’ Ib. 212 b: ‘Hundret et Dim. de Clakelosa de 10 leitis.’ Round, Feudal England, 101.
[23] Some of them are mentioned by Ellis, Introduction, i. 34–9.
[24] D. B. i. 184 b: ‘Haec terra non geldat nec consuetudinem dat nec in aliquo hundredo iacet’; i. 157 ‘Haec terra nunquam geldavit nec alicui hundredo pertinet nec pertinuit’; i. 357 b ‘Hae duae carucatae non sunt in numero alicuius hundredi neque habent pares in Lincolescyra.’
[25] D. B. i. 207 b: ‘Jacet in Bedefordscira set geldum dat in Huntedonscire’; i. 61 b ‘Jacet et appreciata est in Gratentun quod est in Oxenefordscire et tamen dat scotum in Berchescire’; i. 132 b, the manor of Weston ‘lies in’ Hitchin which is in Hertfordshire, but its wara ‘lies in’ Bedfordshire, i.e. it pays geld, it ‘defends itself’ in the latter county; i. 189 b, the wara of a certain hide ‘lies in’ Hinxton which is in Cambridgeshire, but the land belongs to the manor of Chesterford and therefore is valued in Essex. D. B. i. 178; five hides ‘geld and plead’ in Worcestershire, but pay their farm in Herefordshire.
[26] D. B. i. 157 b: ‘Has [terras in Oxenefordscire] coniunxit terrae suae in Glowecestrescire’; i. 209 b ‘foris misit de hundredo ubi se defendebat T. R. E.’; i. 50 ‘et misit foras comitatum et misit in Wiltesire.’ See also Ellis, i. 36.
[27] See Round, Feudal England, p. 118. Mr Round seems to think that the commissioners made a circuit through the hundreds. I doubt they did more than their successors the justices in eyre were wont to do, that is, they held in the shire-town a moot which was attended by (1) the magnates of the shire who spoke for the shire, (2) a jury from every hundred, (3) a deputation of villani from every township. See the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Clamores (i. 375) where we may find successive entries beginning with (a) Scyra testatur, (b) Westreding testatur, (c) Testatur wapentac. Strikingly similar entries are found on the eyre rolls. As Sir F. Pollock (Eng. Hist. Rev. xi. 213) remarks, it is misleading to speak of the Domesday ‘survey’; Domesday Inquest would be better.
[28] See Round, Feudal England, p. 44.
[29] Inquis. Com. Cantab. 60.
[30] See the table in Round, Feudal England, p. 50. I had already selected this beautiful specimen before Mr Round’s book appeared. He has given several others that are quite as neat.