[49] Reading 'Eudo Dapifer [tenet v. denarios', where Domesday (ii. 106) has, of course, 'v. d[omus]'.
[50] Mr Freeman held that Domesday hinted it might be classed with London, York, and Winchester (Norm. Conq., iv. 147; Exeter, 45), and quotes William of Malmesbury's description of its wealth and importance. Even in earlier days, he wrote, 'both the commercial and the military importance of the city were of the first rank' (i. 308).
[51] The firma of Gloucester had been raised to £60, and that of Chester to over £70, while at Wallingford, where the king had about as many houses as at Exeter, it was £80.
[52] Norm. Conq., iv. 213.
[53] 'T.R.E. reddebat civitas Lincolia regi xx. libras et comiti x. libras. Modo reddit c. libras ad numerum inter regem et comitem' (D.B., i. 336b).
[54] Norm. Conq., iv. 160.
[55] Mr Freeman's 'Pedigrees and Pedigree-makers' (Cont. Rev., June 1887, p. 33).
[56] Norm. Conq., iv. 151.
[57] Ibid., iv. pp. 103, 118. So too Ibid., p. 126: 'There was the imminent fear of an invasion from Denmark, and the threatening aspect of the still independent west and north. William had need of all his arts of war and policy to triumph over the combination of so many enemies at once.'
[58] 'Cives eam tenebant furiosi, copiosæ multitudinis, infestissimi mortalibus Gallici generis.'—Ord. Vit.]