[171] Leg. Hen. 29, § 1.
[172] Hist. Eng. Law, i. 344.
[173] Dialogus, i. c. 11.
[174] D. B. i. 67 b: ‘De terra villanorum dedit abbatissa uni militi 3 hidas et dimidiam.’ Ibid. 89: ‘tenet Johannes de episcopo 2 hidas de terra villanorum.’ Ibid. i. 169: ‘unus francigena tenet terram unius villani.’ Ibid. 164: ‘In Sauerna 11 piscariae in dominio et 42 piscariae villanorum.’ Ibid. 230: ‘Silva dominica 1 leu. long. et dim. leu. lat. Silva villanorum 4 quarent. long. et 3 quarent. lat.’ Ibid. 7 b: ‘5 molini villanorum.’ We have not seen dominicum used as a substantive; but in the Exon. D. B. iv. 75 we have dominicatus Regis, for the king’s demesne. There is already a slight ambiguity about the term dominium. We may say that a church has a manor in dominio, meaning thereby that the manor as a whole is held by the church itself and is not held of it by any tenant; and then we may go on to say that only one half of the land comprised in this manor is held by the church in dominio. Cf. Hist. Eng. Law, ii. 126.
[175] For example, D. B. i. 159: ‘Nunc in dominio 3 carucae et 6 servi, et 26 villani cum 3 bordariis et 15 liberi homines habent 30 carucas.’ Ibid. 165: ‘In dominio 2 carucae et 9 villani et 6 bordarii et presbyter et unus rachenistre cum 10 carucis.’ Ibid. 258 b: ‘et 3 villani et 2 bordarii et 2 francigenae cum 2 carucis.’ But such entries are common enough.
[176] Round, Domesday Studies, i. 97.
[177] D. B. i. 28: ‘Ipse Willelmus de Braiose tenet Wasingetune.... De hac terra tenet Gislebertus dim. hidam, Radulfus 1 hidam, Willelmus 3 virgas, Leuuinus dim. hidam qui potuit recedere cum terra sua et dedit geldum domino suo et dominus suus nichil dedit.’
[178] D. B. i. 163, 163 b.
[179] D. B. i. 121: ‘Omnes superius descriptas terras tenebant T. R. E. S. Petrocus; huius sancti terrae nunquam reddiderunt geldum nisi ipsi aecclesiae.’ D. B. iv. 187: ‘Terrae S. Petrochi nunquam reddiderunt gildum nisi sancto.’
[180] D. B. ii. 372: ‘Et quando in hundreto solvitur ad geldum 1 libra tunc inde exeunt 60 denarii ad victum monachorum.’