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 A LIST of all the TENANTS in capite or serjanty, as they stand at the Head of each County, in Domesday.

1. REX WILLELMUS.

The King's lands are always placed first under the title TERRA REGIS, and all that held under that title were the ordinary tenants of the King's demesnes; and where it is said Rex tenet such a town, he held it in his own hands, and managed it by a Præpositus or Reve, and servants; and so of other great tenants in capite, where it is said they held such and such manors and towns, without mentioning any tenant that held under them (unless it were an omission of the commissioners that took the survey, or their clerks, or the ignorance of the jury or Rh