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DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYOND
IN THE
EARLY HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
C. F. CLAY, Manager.
London: FETTER LANE, E.C.
Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.
Leipzig: P. A. BROCKHAUS.
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN & CO. Ltd.
IN THE
EARLY HISTORY OF ENGLAND
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
OF LINCOLN’S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1907
Reprinted 1907.
PREFACE.
The greater part of what is in this book was written in order that itmight be included in the History of English Law before the Time ofEdward I. which was published by Sir Frederick Pollock and me in theyear 1895. Divers reasons dictated a change of plan. Of one only need Ispeak. I knew that Mr Round was on the eve of giving to the world hisFeudal England, and that thereby he would teach me and others many newlessons about the scheme and meaning of Domesd