Besides these, Ralf 'de bans' is often entered as Ralf 'de scannis'. Again, we find such blunders as this: _I.C.C._ _D.B._ Hugo de portu tenet sneileuuelle. Ipse Hugo tenet _de feudo Pro v. hidis se defendebat T.R.E. episcopi baiocensis_ snellewelle. et modo facit _de feudo episcopi Pro v. hidis se defend[ebat] baiocensis_ (p. 3). semper. Tenuit Turbertus i. hidam sub Tenuit Turbern i. hidam de abbate. abbate de eli. _Et in morte_ ita Non poterat separare ab æcclesia quod non potuit dare neque extra firmam monachorum T.R.E. separare ab ecclesia extra _nec in die mortis ejus_. dominicam firmam monachorum T.R.E. (p. 63). Abuerunt de soca S. Ædel' ii. Habuerunt ii. hidas et dimidiam hidas et dimidiam virgam _de ely_ vir[gatam] de soca S. Ædeldride T.R.E. (p. 65). _de Ely_. In all these three cases the italicized words are misplaced, and in all three the explanation is the same, the scribe having first omitted them, and then inserted them later out of place. Having now criticized the text of the I.C.C., and shown that it presents no small traces of unintelligent clerkship, if not of actual ignorance of the terms and _formulæ_ of Domesday, I turn to the text of Domesday Book, to test it by comparison with that of the I.C.C. II. CRITICISM OF THE DOMESDAY TEXT Among the omissions are, on i, 195 (_b_) 1, 'Item et reddebat viii. den. vel aueram si rex in vicecomitatu venit' (p. 5). At Kirtling (p. 11), 'et v^{ta.} caruca potest fieri [in dominio]' is omitted (i. 202 _a_). So is (p. 25) a potential demesne plough of John fitz Waleran (i. 201 _b_). The Countess Judith's sokemen at Carlton (pp. 20, 21) have their values omitted[25] (i. 202, _a_, 2). 'Habuerunt dimidiam hidam, et,' is omitted (p. 28) in the entry of two sokemen of Godwine (201, _b_, 2). On i. 196 (_a_) 1, 'Terra est i. bovi' is wanting (p. 79). More important, however, are the omissions of whole entries. These are by no means difficult to account for, the process of extracting from the original returns, the various entries relating to each particular fief being one which was almost certain to result in such omissions.[26]