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

by Frederic William Maitland

[221] D. B. ii. 440 b: ‘sed homines inde fuerunt confusi.’

[222] D. B. i. 65, Aldeborne.

[223] D. B. ii. 18, Berdringas.

[224] D. B. ii. 88 b, Tachesteda.

[225] Ellis, Introduction, ii. 428. We give Ellis’s figures, but think that he has exaggerated the number of sokemen who were to be found in 1086.

[226] We make considerably more than 900 by counting only those who are expressly described as sokemen and excluding the many persons who are simply described as homines capable of selling their land.

[227] Hamilton, Inquisitio, 65.

[228] Hamilton, Inquisitio, 77.

[229] Thus e.g. D. B. ii. 87 b: ‘Hidingham tenet Garengerus de Rogero pro 25 acris quas tenuerunt 15 liberi homines T. R. E.’

[230] D. B. i. 31.