The Commune of London, and other studies

by John Horace Round

[145] Compare my remarks on the quick growth, in those days of erroneous tradition, in ‘Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer,’ p. 77.

[146] pp. 109–115. Professor Maitland has subsequently spoken of it in two or three passages of ‘Domesday Book and Beyond.’

[147] “The Conqueror at Exeter” (‘Feudal England’).

[148] D. B., i. 108.

[149] D. B., i. 108.

[150] Barnstaple rendered forty shillings ‘ad pensum’ to the king, and twenty ‘ad numerum’ to the bishop of Coutances; Lidford sixty ‘ad pensum’; Totnes “olim reddebat iii lib. ad pensum et arsuram,” but, after passing into private hands, its render was raised to “viii lib. ad numerum.” Exeter itself ‘rendered’ £6 “ad pensum et arsuram” to the king, and £12 ‘ad numerum’ for Queen Edith.

[151] D. B., i. 100 b-101.

[152] Feudal England, p. 115.

[153] D. B., i. 120.

[154] Cf. Feudal England, pp. 109–110.