[701] We must exclude cases in which the king takes an aid from his whole demesne, e.g. for his daughter’s marriage, for in such a case many royal manors which have no right to be called boroughs must make a gift.
[702] Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 347, has excellent remarks on this point.
[703] Nearly.
[704] This may come only from the Staffordshire part of Tamworth.
[705] Chichester pays in later years; but very little.
[706] Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I. p. 139.
[707] Was the blank space in D. B. i. 246 left for the borough of Tamworth? This borough is incidentally mentioned in D. B. i. 238, 246, 246 b.
[708] But the account of the two sister boroughs here falls between the accounts of the two sister counties.
[709] D. B. i. 337. It is even called a suburbium of Lincoln, though it lies full 10 miles from the city.
[710] The one glimpse that I have had of the manuscript suggested to me (1) that the accounts of some of the boroughs were postscripts, and (2) that space was left for accounts of London and Winchester. The anatomy of the book deserves examination by an expert.