The following list represents an attempt to identify the returns to this great Inquest in the ‘Testa,’ and to give the relative abstracts in the ‘Liber Rubeus.’ Out of 39 English counties (then recognised), the ‘Testa’ seems to have returns or fragments for 25, and the ‘Liber Rubeus’ abstracts for 31. NOTTS AND DERBYSHIRE. Testa, pp. 17_b_-19_a_. Liber Rubeus, p. 565. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Testa, p. 36. Liber Rubeus, p. 532. WORCESTERSHIRE. Testa, pp. 43–4. Liber Rubeus, p. 566. SALOP AND STAFFORDSHIRE. Testa, pp. 54–6. Liber Rubeus,[550] p. 509. HEREFORDSHIRE. Testa, pp. 69_b_-70_b_. Liber Rubeus, p. 495. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Testa, pp. 77_a_. OXFORDSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE. Testa, pp. 115,[551] 128_a_-129_a_,[552] 129_a_-131_b_,[553] 133_b_-134_b_.[554] SOMERSET AND DORSET. Testa, pp. 160_b_-166_a_. Liber Rubeus, p. 544. DEVON. Testa, pp. 194–195. SURREY. Testa, pp. 224_b_-226_a_. Liber Rubeus, p. 560. SUSSEX. Testa, pp. 226_b_[555]-227_b_. Liber Rubeus, p. 553. HANTS. Testa, pp. 236_a_,[556] 239_b_.[557] ESSEX AND HERTS. Testa, pp. 269_b_[558]-271_a_.[559] Liber Rubeus, p. 498. NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. Testa, pp. 293_a_-296_a_. Liber Rubeus, p. 475. LINCOLNSHIRE. Testa, pp. 334_b_[560]-348_a_.[561] Liber Rubeus, p. 514. MIDDLESEX. Testa, p. 361. Liber Rubeus, p. 541. CUMBERLAND. Testa, pp. 379_a_[562]-380_a_. Liber Rubeus, p. 493. NORTHUMBERLAND. Testa, pp. 392_a_-393_b_.[563] Liber Rubeus, pp. 562–4. LANCASHIRE. Testa, p. 401_b_-408_a_. Cf. Liber Rubeus, p. 568. The above list can only be tentative, and does not profess to be exhaustive. It is believed, however, that genealogists and topographers will find it of considerable assistance. XIII Castle-ward and Cornage I propose to deal in this chapter with two subjects which are wholly distinct, but which it has now been proposed, by a singular confusion, to connect. Speaking of certain miscellaneous returns in the ‘Red Book of the Exchequer,’ Mr. Hall writes: