[Footnote 246: Ed. Hamilton, p. 137.] [Footnote 247: This also seems to have been taken from the detailed original returns.] [Footnote 248: So far back as 1887 I raised this question, writing: 'Indeed, heretical though the view may be, I see no _proof_ whatever that Domesday Book was itself compiled in 1086' (_Antiquary_, xvi. 8).] [Footnote 249: _Domesday Studies_, pp. 526, 626.] [Footnote 250: The most erroneous date that has been suggested for Domesday is the year 1080. Ellis wrote, referring to Webb's 'short account', that 'the Red Book of the Exchequer seems to have been erroneously quoted as fixing the time of entrance upon it as 1080' (i. 3). Mr Ewald,[*] following in his footsteps, has repeated his statement (under 'Domesday Book'), in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_; and, lastly, Mr de Gray Birch asserts on his authority that 'this valuable manuscript' is not responsible for that date (_Domesday Book_, p. 71). All these writers are mistaken. The _Diologus de Scaccario_, indeed, does not mention a year, but Swereford's famous Introduction, in the Red Book of the Exchequer, does give us, by an astounding blunder, the fourteenth year of the Conqueror (1079-80) as the date of Domesday (see below, p. 210).] [Footnote *: Author of _Our Public Records_.] [Footnote 251: I am not sure that even the 'pertin[ent] ad rege[m]' of the 'first' volume (100_b_) is not a mistake for 'regnum'.] [Footnote 252: On fo. 17 is a curious deleted list of church fiefs in Essex, which has no business there.] [Footnote 253: _Introduction to Domesday_, i. 354.] [Footnote 254: _Vide infra_, p. 154.] [Footnote 255: Henry, says Orderic, in 1100, 'concito cursu ad _arcem Guentoniæ, ubi regalis thesaurus continebatur_, festinavit'.] [Footnote 256: This account of the Winchester placitum is taken from my second article on 'The Custody of Domesday Book' (_Antiquary_, xvi. 9-10).] [Footnote 257: _Academy_, November 13, 1886; _Domesday Studies_, p. 537 note; and Mr Hall's _Antiquities of the Exchequer_, chap. i.] [Footnote 258: _Mon. Ang._, iii. 86.] [Footnote 259: _Hen. Hunt._, 211; Richard of Hexham says of Henry I's charter of liberties that 'in ærari suo apud Wintoniam [eam] conservari præcepit' (p. 142).] [Footnote 260: _Domesday Studies_, 546-7.] [Footnote 261: _Supra_, note 255.] [Footnote 262: _Athenæum_, November 27, 1886.] [Footnote 263: See also _Domesday Studies_, 547 note^{2}.] [Footnote 264: _Domesday Studies_, 539 _et seq._] [Footnote 265: It will be observed that I do not touch the _Liber Exoniensis_.] [Footnote 266: Possibly at second-hand, see p. 20 note (Footnote 9, above), and Addenda.] THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GELD-ROLL