[517] William of Poictiers, p. 216.
[518] Ibid. Muratori, Antiq. v. coll. 404, 405.
[519] William of Poictiers, chaplain to William the Conqueror, speaks of his rich gifts to Rome, p. 206.
[520] William of Malmesb. p. 43.
[521] Ibid. p. 42.
[522] Saxon Chron. The list of relics preserved (till quite recently) in the Escurial in Spain, would satisfy the wildest curiosity of any owner of a “rag and bone shop.” Cf. also W. of Malmesb. De Pontif. 5. Bede, Hist. Abbat. Weremouth.
[523] Thom. Chron. ap. Twysden, ed. 1793.
[524] For these and other references to Domesday, see Macpherson, i. pp. 293-7, and i. pp. 303-7.
[525] The above particulars are derived from the records of Domesday, which were, however, never completed for several of the northern counties, possibly owing to the great northern up-rising against William the Conqueror. It is also remarkable that there are no notices of London and Winchester in the Conqueror’s Domesday. (See Spelman’s Gloss, s. v. Domesday, and Ayloffe’s Calendar, p. xviii.) For Winchester, there was a separate register known as the “Winchester Book.” A portion of the original survey, with the title of “Inquisitio Eliensis” (from which that in Domesday has been reduced) has been recently discovered in the British Museum, and will shortly be published, under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature, by Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton, Librarian to the Society, and late of the Dep. of MSS., British Museum.