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 HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE DOMESDAY MAP NOTES TO DOMESDAY MAP (Compiled by J. HORACE ROUND. M.A.t In this Map those manors in which the King had an interest have a scarlet line undei them ; a blue line is under those in which the chief ecclesiastical tenant, namely, Peterborough Abbey, held land ; a green line denotes those in which land was held by the greatest lay tenant, Robert, Count of Morlam, half-brother to the Conqueror. The Hundreds existing at the time of Domesday have been reconstructed, so far as possible, with the help of " The North- amptonshire Survey"of the i2th century. In Domesday itself the rubrication (indicating the names of the Hundreds to which the manors belong) is loo imperfect for the purpose. It should be remembered that the Domes- day names, both of Hundreds and of manors vary much, and that only one variant can be given in each instance on the map, It should also be observed that the bound- aries of the county are, for uniformity and convenience of reference, depicted as they now stand. But, in 1086, "Northamptonshire" comprised the south-eastern portion of what is now Rutland, and the Domesday survey of that portion is scattered accordingly throughout the survey of Northamptonshire. The modern names of the rivers are given for the same reason as above ; they are not mentioned in Domesday. The influence of the forests and the fen district on the density of the place-names and the size of the Hundreds is seen, to a certain extent, on the map. RKyBRBNOB TO COLOUftINO Kltiff'a Miuior* Uiiu — < Patsrboroueh Abboy's Uanon ., I OouDt Robert of Hon«Ui'B Manors ,, THE. VICTORIA HISTORY OT THE. COUNTIES OF ENGLAND •^