Note 3 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 2)

Stapleton, of course, knew better than this, and assigned the survey at one time to circ. 1108,3 but in his Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ4 to 1106-20. It was subsequently investigated and analysed with great care by Mr Eyton, whose note-books, now in the British Museum, show that he adopted the sound method of comparing it in detail with Domesday Book. After his death Mr Chester Waters issued (1883) an annotated translation of the text, with an introduction, analysis, etc., in which the place-names were carefully identified, and the same system of comparison with Domesday adopted.5