Note 110 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)

On the other hand we have Swereford's own admission that he worked from the rolls alone.110 These rolls are, for all purposes, as accessible to us as they were to him, while we possess the advantage of having, in contemporary chronicles, sources of information which he did not use, and with which, indeed, he shows no sign of being even conversant. We must go, therefore, behind Swereford and examine for ourselves the materials from which he worked.