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[11] quent to the making up of Domesday, or on what other authority, does not appear. (D.) That these commissioners were discreet and great persons, but generally Normans, appears from a leger book of Worcester, wherein it is said, proof was given "that the church of St. Mary of Worcester had a hundred called Ofwaldeslau, before Remigius bishop of Lincoln, Earl Walter Giffard, Henry de Ferrers, and Adam, brother of Eudo, the king's Sewer; who were appointed to inquire and describe the possessions and customs, as well of the king, as of his chief people in the province of Worcestershire, and in many others, at the time when the king caused all England to be surveyed and described," &c. Coll. Sup. Peerage, vol. II. p. 470. (E.) Mr. Selden gives us the names of the jury in several of the hundreds in Cambridgeshire, which he found in a MS. belonging to the church of Ely, coœval, as he thinks, with Domesday itself.

"Isti homines juraverunt in Stapleton hundredo: Nicholaus de Cheneta, Willielmus de Chipenham, homo Gausridi, Hugo de Heselinge, Warin de Saham, Rodbertus Anglicus de Fordham, Ordmar de Billengesham, Alanus de Burewelle, Aluriz de Sneilewelle. Isti homines juraverunt in Cavelai hundredo, scilicet Ricardus præfectus hujus hundredi (cum aliis)." Pref. Seld. de Eadm. Ed. 15.

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