Excerpt from Domesday, or an Actual Survey of South-Britain, by the Commissioners of William the Conqueror: Completed in the Year 1086, on the Evidence of the Jurors of Hundreds, Sanctioned by the Authority of the County Jurors It was the Tranflators original intention to have given the Subfiance of the book or domesday In maps OF each county, topographical tables, arranged according to Hundreds, Rapes, or Manours, and an appropriate history of every city, borough, or town, as ftated in this autograph, with collateral, hifioric, and legal Information, derived from other autbezz/z'e Sources, to the reign of Edward If'e. But in conformity with the requefi of form refpeetable and learned Friends, this Specimen is, publiihed, as a pre paratory and perhaps neceifary Introdue'tion to an intended general Tranflation. To give a literal verbatim Rendering, was never defigned, (for then no one would have read it but to give a faithful, accurate, though occafionally' liberal Tranflation, where Cuf'toms and Manners are delineated. To noblemen, gentlemen OF landed property, clergymen, lawyers, and jurymen, this Record will aflbrd much pleafing and fatisfaetory Information and the curious Cui'toms enregif'tered in thefe volumes, will much elucidate the com mon law of the land, the manners Of our forefather's, the state of the boroughs, towns, and villages, the agricueture, population. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.