The further study of Domesday Book will undoubtedly yield valuable results supplementing the information derived from Saxon documents. While it is primarily a supreme example of the defining spirit and centralising energy of the conquering race, it is also a permanent record of England before and at the time of the Norman invasion. Especially, perhaps, is this apparent in the detailed descriptions of the boroughs, which at once set forth Saxon customs and illustrate the effects of the Conquest. The extracts given below are intended to show in brief, first, the methods both of the commissioners who conducted the survey, and of the officials who reduced the information to a common form;[3] second, the fiscal preoccupation of the government; third, the origin and character of the early borough, especially manifest in the case of Wallingford (No. 5), and fourth, the different classes of tenants, free and unfree. Of particular interest are the following features: the manner of levying the feudal army (No. 6), the evidence of the looser organisation of the Eastern Counties, and the greater degree of freedom prevailing among tenants in the Danelaw (Nos. 4 and 8), the ample franchises that might be enjoyed by a great Saxon prelate (No. 7), the saltpans of Worcestershire (No. 9), and the gildhall of the burgesses of Dover (No. 3). AUTHORITIES The more accessible writers dealing with the subject of this section are:--Kemble, _The Saxons in England_; Maine, _Village Communities in the East and West_; Seebohm, _The English Village Community_; Vinogradoff, _Villeinage in England_, _The Growth of the Manor_, and, _English Society in the Eleventh Century_; Andrews, _The Old English Manor_; Maitland, _Domesday Book and Beyond_; Pollock and Maitland, _History of English Law_; Ballard, _The Domesday Boroughs_, and, _The Domesday Inquest_; Round, _Domesday Studies_, and, _The Domesday Manor_ (Eng. Hist. Rev. xv.); Stubbs, _Constitutional History_, and, _Lectures on Mediæval History_; Ellis, _Introduction to Domesday Book_; Gomme, _The Village Community_; de Coulanges, _Origin of Property in Land_; Freeman, _The History of the Norman Conquest of England_; Petit Dutaillis, _Studies Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History_. Almost the whole of Domesday Book has now been translated and is printed county by county in the Victoria County History series. For a general survey of the Saxon period the student should refer to Cunningham, _Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Mediæval Times_, pp. 28-133. 1. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF ALL Persons [_Rectitudines Singularum Personarum_. _Cambridge_, _Corpus Christi_, 383], c. 1000.