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THE LINDSEY SURVEY (1115–1118)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

John Horace Round
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THIS “invaluable Survey,” as Mr. Stevenson has termed it, might be described as a miniature Domesday for each of the Wapentakes in the three trithings into which Lindsey was divided. For although drawn up, Wapentake by Wapentake, as is the Leicestershire Survey, Hundred by Hundred, the lands within each Wapentake described are grouped under the names of the holders of fiefs, instead of being entered Vill by Vill. It was doubtless compiled, like other surveys, in connexion with the assessment of the “geld.”

Remarkable from a palæographic standpoint as well as from the nature of its contents, the record, which is found in a Cottonian MS. (Claud. C. 5), has been singularly unfortunate in its editors. As Mr. Greenstreet truly observed:–

The indefatigable Hearne, seeing that the manuscript related to a very ancient period of our history, and recognising its great importance,' printed it in the Appendix to his “Liber Niger,” but he does not appear to have properly examined either the question of the date of the writing, or the internal evidence … As a natural consequence of his superficial examination, he associates it wrongly with the reign of Henry II.

Stapleton, of course, knew better than this, and assigned the survey at one time to circ. 1108, but in his Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniœ to 1106–112.

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Feudal England
Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries
 , pp. 181 - 195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1895

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