Lives of the Queens of England From the Norman Conquest 1
Lives of the Queens of England From the Norman Conquest 1
Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874
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That in some instances, too, they were partial in their returns, is evident by the acknowledgment of Ingulphus, when, speaking of his own monastery of Croyland, he says, " the commissioners were so kind and civil, that they did not give in the true value of it :" we may therefore conclude, that, whenever the proprietors made it worth their while, they were equally obliging elsewhere. Yet it was at the risk of severe punishment that any fraud, favour, connivance, or concealment, was practised by... either the owners of the property, or the commissioners.'* Robert of Gloucester, in his rhyming 1 Henry Hantingdon. M. WestmiDster. 2 According to some historians, the survey was not generally begun till 1080. It was not fully completed till 1086 — ^Tindal's Notes on Rapin, 3 Ingulphus. 4 This survey was made by presentment of juries, that is, certain per- sons who were appointed from every hundred, wapentake, or county i and Digitized byGoogk JfATILDA OF FLANBEE9. V9 chromcle, giv^ the fc^wing quaint description of the Domesday-book, ** Then King Williani, to learn the worth of his land, Let inquiry stretch throughout all England, How many plough land, and hiden also, Were in every shire, and what they were worth thereto ; And the rents of each town, and the waters each one, The worth, and woods eke, and wastes where lived none ; By that he wist what he were worth of all E^ngland, And set it clearly forth that all might understand, And had it clearly written, and that script he put I w^ in the treasurie of Westminster, where it still is.*' The king's great object in instituting this survey was to form an exact calculation of his own revenues, and especially how much money he might be enabled to realize in the way of a land-tax.
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