[255] Henry, says Orderic, in 1100, 'concito cursu ad arcem Guentoniæ, ubi regalis thesaurus continebatur, festinavit'.

[256] This account of the Winchester placitum is taken from my second article on 'The Custody of Domesday Book' (Antiquary, xvi. 9-10).

[257] Academy, November 13, 1886; Domesday Studies, p. 537 note; and Mr Hall's Antiquities of the Exchequer, chap. i.

[258] Mon. Ang., iii. 86.

[259] Hen. Hunt., 211; Richard of Hexham says of Henry I's charter of liberties that 'in ærari suo apud Wintoniam [eam] conservari præcepit' (p. 142).

[260] Domesday Studies, 546-7.

[261] Supra, note 255.

[262] Athenæum, November 27, 1886.

[263] See also Domesday Studies, 547 note2.

[264] Domesday Studies, 539 et seq.