[39] Exeter, p. 32.

[40] Exeter, p. 44; Norm. Conq., iv. 147.

[41] This grave confusion, with all that it involves, was one of the 'trifling slips', as Mr Archer terms them (Cont. Rev., p. 354), exposed in my original article (Q.R., July 1892). Such a description is either dishonest, or must imply that Mr Archer, who boasts that he has 'a sterner criterion' than myself (English Historical Review, ix. 606), deems such errors of no consequence.

[42] Norm. Conq., iv. 146-7.

[43] 'Hec reddit xviii. lib. per annum' (100).

[44] 'Hæc civitas T.R.E. non geldabat nisi quando Londonia et Eboracum et Wintonia geldabant, et hoc erat dimidia marka Argenti ad opus militum' (100).

[45] 'Quando expeditio ibat per terram aut per mare, serviebat hæc civitas quantum v. hidæ terræ' (100).

[46] The practice in the Survey of Devon was to state the render in 1086, and, if it had been different formerly, to add a note to that effect. Thus we read on 100b: 'Reddit xlviii. lib. ad pensam. Ante Balduinum reddebat xxiii. lib.' So, too, of Totnes: 'Inter omnes redd' viii. lib. ad numerum. Olim reddebant iii. lib. ad pensam et arsuram' (108b).

[47] Norm. Conq., iv. 162.

[48] Ibid., 139.