Note 53 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES

For contemporary (indeed, slightly earlier) evidence, we must turn to the Ely placitum of 1072-75.53 The special value which this placitum possesses is found in its record of the services due from sochemanni, and even from freemen. It thus helps to interpret the bald figures of Domesday, to which it is actually anterior. The first two instances it affords are these: