Note 525 — Chapter XI

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.