[15] See my paper on the origin of 'The Mayoralty of London', in Archæological Journal (1894).
ADDENDA
Pages [20], [107]. In case I should not have made sufficiently clear my views as to the filiation of the Domesday MSS., it may be well to explain that what I deny on p. [21] is that the Inq. Com. Cant. and the Inq. El. can both have been copied from a third document intermediate between them and the original returns. But, as I state on pp. [20], [123], it cannot be proved that the Inq. Com. Cant. was itself transcribed direct from the original returns, as it might, possibly, be only a copy of an earlier transcript of these returns.
Page [30]. A remarkable instance of the occasional untrustworthiness of the figures given in these texts is afforded by the Manors of Stretham and Wilburton, co. Cambridgeshire, which were farmed together. The correct figures for their ploughteams were these:
| Dominium | Homines | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stretham | 4[1] | 5 | 9 |
| Wilburton | 3[2] | 4 | 7[3] |
| — | — | ||
| 7 | 9 |
The footnotes show the errors.
Thus the A text, which is the best known, gives two figures out of three wrongly for Wilburton, and Mr Pell, by accepting as genuine these two erroneous figures, was led to quite erroneous conclusions.
Pages [68]-9. The parallel for this system of counting by threes and sixes is found in the wergild of Scandinavia, with its rétt of 3 marcs, or 6, or 12, the 6 or the 12 aurar, the 12 ells or the 12 feet of vadmal.