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 NOTE TO DOMESDAY MAP COMPILED BY F. M. STENTON, B.A. In this map those manors in which the king had an interest have a red line under them ; a blue line denotes those in which the chief ecclesiastical tenant, the abbot of Burton, held land ; those which be- longed to the chief lay tenant, Henry de Ferrers, are distinguished by a green line. With reference to the king's estates, which figure so largely on the map, a distinction should be made between the manors of the south and east, which have no remarkable features, and the very inter- esting group of manors which extends in a slightly broken series from Ashbourne to the Yorkshire border. Each manor here consists of a single village and a number of tributary hamlets (berewicks), the group being assessed as a whole to the Danegeld and in combination with other similar groups paying a rent to the king as landlord. Such an arrangement seems to bear marks of antiquity, and the enumeration in Domesday of all the ' berewicks ' of each manor has influenced the map very considerably. So few relevant headings are given in Domesday that no attempt can be made to distinguish the wapentakes on the map. In two in- stances, 'Hammenstan' and 'Walecros,' the Domesday name, which possibly represents a primitive meeting place, has since been replaced by the name of a village, for ' Hammenstan ' wapentake seems to stand for the modern wapentake of Wirksworth, and 'Walecros' wapen- take for that of Repton and Gresley. Defective as the rubrication is it yet contains a single reference to a 'hundred' of Sawley. This by it- self is unintelligible, but we know that in Leicestershire the wapentakes were divided into a number of small groups called ' hundreds ' with the probable object of securing the accurate distribution of the Danegeld ; there are distinct traces of such a system in Nottinghamshire, and seeing that Sawley stands at the point where the Nottingham and Leicester county boundaries meet that of Derbyshire the case of Sawley hundred may safely be taken as indicating the existence of a similar arrangement in the latter county. The county boundary given is that which existed previous to 1897. River names also are given in their modern form.