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

by Frederic William Maitland

[751] K. 1144 (v. 280). Other cases: K. 663 (Chichester), 673 (Winchester), 705 (Warwick), 724 (Warwick), 746 (Oxford), 1235 (Winchester).

[752] K. 765–6, 805.

[753] Schmid, App. V. This might mean a seat (of justice) in the gate of his own burh. But this document will hardly be older than, if so old as, cent. x., by which time we should suppose that burh more often pointed to a borough than to a strong house. We may guess that in the latter sense it was supplanted by the hall of which we read a great deal in Domesday. See above, [p. 109]. However, it does not seem certain that O. E. geat can mean street.

[754] A.-S. Chron. ann. 994.

[755] Thorpe, Diplomatarium, 610. When the Confessor sends a writ to London he addresses it to the bishop, portreeve and burh-thegns. See K. iv. pp. 856, 857, 861, 872.

[756] Gross, Gild Merchant, i. 183, 189.

[757] Gross, op. cit. ii. 37.

[758] Hist. Eng. Law, i. 257.

[759] A.-S. Chron. ann. 1097: ‘Eac manege sciran þe mid weorce to Lundenne belumpon ...’ Thorpe thought good to substitute scipan for sciran.

[760] D. B. i. 298. Outside York were some lands which gelded with the city; ‘et in tribus operibus Regis cum civibus erant.’ This refers to the trinoda necessitas.