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 which prevailed in the cities and boroughs in the time of Edward the Confessor.

It is certain, that all lands, both of the laity and clergy, were at the Survey held of the king directly in capite, and no land whatever, or township, was excepted from the account then taken; and those towns which are not mentioned in Domesday, as having no manor in them, are accounted for in some neighbouring lordships and towns where the manors stood, and are there assessed.

However we are told in the Survey itself, that 7 hundreds out of 12, in Worcestershire, are omitted in that county, they being so quiet and free, that the sheriff had nothing to do with them; and it is often said, that such land was never Hidated, and that the hundred can give no account of it; therefore the conjecture of Camden, that many parts are left out of Domesday, "quia penfitationibus liberæ," may still be well founded.

The names of the hundreds in the respective counties have undergone a great change. Lincolnshire is divided into 30 wapentakes, or hundreds, yet there are only about 19 which bear any thing like the same name, in Domesday, as they do at present; and in Warwickshire there is not now one remaining out of the ten there set down.

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