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

by Frederic William Maitland

[811] Green, Town Life, vol. i. ch. xi.

[812] D. B. i. 189.

[813] D. B. i. 336 b.

[814] D. B. i. 336 b.

[815] D. B. i. 298.

[816] D. B. i. 262 b.

[817] R. H. i. 354–6.

[818] Besides the well known English books, see a paper by Konrad Maurer, Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München, Philosoph.-philolog. Classe, 1887, vol. ii. p. 363. In the Leges Edw. Conf. 38 § 2, the ‘lagemanni et meliores homines de burgo’ seem to serve as inquest men, rather than doomsmen; while the lahmen of the document concerning the Dunsetan (Schmid, App. I.) seem to be doomsmen.

[819] Gross, Gild Merchant, ii. 114 ff.; Hist. Eng. Law, i. 642.

[820] D. B. ii. 290, Ipswich: ‘Modo vero sunt 110 burgenses qui consuetudinem reddunt et 100 pauperes burgenses qui non possunt reddere ad geltum Regis nisi unum denarium de suis capitibus.’ D. B. ii. 116, Norwich: ‘Modo sunt in burgo 665 burgenses anglici et consuetudines reddunt, et 480 bordarii qui propter pauperiem nullam reddunt consuetudinem.’