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"saginandos. Quinque acræ prati. iii. molendina. Dimidia salina. Semper iii runcini, & xx porci & cc. oves. Huic manerio pertinet una beruita, Alatorp, de una carucata Terræ, &c. Fagenham habet vii. Quarteria milliarii in longitudine & dimidium in latitudine, & reddit regi xii. denarios in Gelt. i. e. in Geldo seu Tributo."

Domesday, vol. II. p. III.
Nicolson, Híst. Lib. part 3. p. 98.
Spelm. Gloss. voce Domesdei.

(B.)

Matthew of Westminster says, it was begun the 16th; William Chron Bermond, the 17th; the Saxon Chronicle and Henry Huntington, the 18th; Roger Hoveden, the 19th; Upod. Neustriæ, the 20th; but, according to the Red Book in the Exchequer, it was begun in 1080, 13th of William.

(C.)

This is evident from an entry at the end of the second volume of the work itself, except that the fee of Robert de Bruis, p. 332. b. was added after Domesday was made up, and is written in a different hand.

Lord Lyttelton, indeed, in his History of Henry II. vol. 2d. p. 289, says, "It was made by order of William the Ist, with the advice of his parliament, in the year 1086; but it seems not to "have been finished till the following year;" but whether his lordship grounded his supposition on

the fee of Robert de Bruis being entered subse-

quent
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