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

by Frederic William Maitland

[1431] D. B. ii. 116: T. R. E. there were 1320 burgenses.

[1432] D. B. ii 372.

[1433] It seems probable that in many cases the parish priest is reckoned among the townsmen, the villani.

[1434] See above, [p. 20].

[1435] While historical economists can still dispute as to whether the population in 1346 was 5 millions, or only 2¹⁄₂ (Cunningham, Eng. Industry, i. 301) guesses about 1085 are premature. M. Fabre has lately estimated the population of England under Henry II. at 2,880,000. But as to this calculation, see Liebermann, Eng. Hist. Rev. xi. 746.

[1436] See above, [p. 366].

[1437] Walter of Henley, pp. 67, 71.

[1438] Walter of Henley, p. 19.

[1439] Rogers, Hist. Agric. i. 50–1.

[1440] Tour in the Southern Counties, ed. 3 (1767), p. 158. See also p. 242.