[Footnote 1: I have found, since this was written, that it was printed by Mr T. O. Cockayne in his little-known _Shrine_ (pp. 205-8), and pronounced by him (in error) to be 'evidently' of the date 1109-18.] [Footnote 2: I opposed in 1886 (_Domesday Studies_, pp. 86, 87) the accepted view that no Danegeld was levied by the Conqueror till the winter of 1083-4 and discussed (_ibid._, 88-92) the _Inquisitio Geldi_, which, as Mr Eyton showed (_Key to Domesday_), belongs to that date. It has been persistently confused with the Exon Domesday (being bound up with it), as by Mr Jones, in his Wiltshire Domesday (pp. xxxvii., 153 _et seq._), and Professor Freeman (_Quart. Review_, July 1892, p. 22).] [Footnote 3: It was connected, I find, by Mr Cockayne with military service, not with _Danegeld_.] [Footnote 4: Quoted in Ellis's _Introduction to Domesday_, i. 315-6.] [Footnote 5: _Norm. Conq._, iii, 741-2.] [Footnote 6: The phrase employed by Mr Freeman in criticizing Professor Pearson.] [Footnote 7: See Ellis, _ut supra_.] [Footnote 8: 'Wered', like 'Wara' (_supra_, p. 100), refers to assessment and corresponds with the 'defendit se' phrase in Domesday. It seems here to represent the land which had actually paid.] [Footnote 9: Wrongly given by Ellis and Cockayne as 'xviii'.] [Footnote 10: Wrongly given by Ellis as 'viii. and xx'.] [Footnote 11: The MS. reads, 'thus micel is gewered ... viiii. and xx. hida and i. hida and viiii. and fifti hida inland'. The text is clearly corrupt.] [Footnote 12: There is no entry for 'waste' in this hundred, so that possibly the words 'xv. hida westa' are omitted.] [Footnote 13: There are clearly some words omitted here in the Peterborough transcript. We must read: 'and thereof is "gewered" [? 26 hide and] five and twenty hides inland'.] [Footnote 14: _Monasticon_, vi. 1090.] [Footnote 15: _Infra_, p. 175.] [Footnote 16: _Infra_, p. 173.] [Footnote 17: See my paper on 'The great carucage of 1198' (_English Historical Review_, iii, 501 _et seq._).] [Footnote 18: 'Et ego ipse custodio forestagium Regis de feodo meo; et debeo ire cum corpore Regis in servitio suo paratus equis et armis, cornu meo in collo meo pendente.'--_Lib. Rub._, i, 333.] [Footnote 19: _Domesday Studies_, pp. 117-9.] THE KNIGHTS OF PETERBOROUGH (_Temp._ HENRY I)