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XXII. Doubts and conjectures concerning the reason commonly assigned for inserting or omitting the words Ecclesia and Presbyter in Domesday Book. By the Rev. Samuel Denne. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary.

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A notion seems generally to have prevailed, that where neither Ecclesia nor Presbyter is entered in a clause of Domesday Book, it may be inferred that at the time the survey was made there was not a church in any of the districts to which the clauses refer. The late bishop Lyttelton and doctor Nash have countenanced this idea, and the silence of this venerable record is considered by Mr. Pegge as a formidable answer to the reasons advanced by Mr. Brooke to shew, that the church of Aldbrough in Yorkshire was a Saxon building.

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page 218 note [a] Dr. Nash's Collections for the History of Worcestershire, v. I. 129, and v. II. Append. p. 15.

page 218 note [b] Archaeologia, v. VII. art. ix. and v. VI. art. iii.

page 219 note [c] Ecclesiastical Cases, v. I. p. 91.

page 220 note [d] Robert Latin held Boxley to farm of Odo bishop of Bayeux, and paid 551. a year for it.

page 221 note [e] Viz. Bridetone (now Long Burton)—Brideport—Witcerce (now Whitchurch Canonicorum)—Warham—S. Marie de Gelingham—Dorcestre (Dorchester)—Bere (Bere Regis)—Winfrode (Winfrith Newburgh)—Pitretone—Calvedone, Tit. xviii. p. 9. It is said “Eccl'ia S'ti Wandregisili ten' unam eccl'am “de Rege in Warham.” Does not this imply there being at that time more than one church in Warham; but I believe no other is mentioned.

page 221 note [f] X Script. col. 1780 and 2091.

page 222 note [g] Brydges's Northamptonshire, I. p. 39.

page 222 note [h] Ibid. p. 188.

page 222 note [i] Ibid. p. 301.

page 222 note [k] Ibid. p. 359.

page 222 note [l] Ibid. p. 419.

page 222 note [m] Ibid. p. 109.

page 222 note [n] Ibid. p. 182.

page 222 note [o] The passage in Ingulphus (p. 106, sub anno 1087) as quoted by lord Lyttelton in his History of Henry II. vol. I. p. 412. 8° edit. is as follows: “Distribuitque juxta voluntatem patris sui majoribus ecclcsiis totius Angliæ “x marcas, minoribus v singulis vero villanis ecclesiis v solidos.”

Simeon Dunelmensis's account is “Thesauros sui patris, ut ipse jusserat, per Angliam divisit, scilicet quibusdam principalibus ecclesiis, quibusdam vi marcas zuri, quibusdam minus, ecclesii s etiam in civitatibus vel villıs, per singulas denarios LX.” X Script. col. 214. Diceto, Ibid. c. 488. Bromton, Chron. Ibid. c. 983. and Hoveden Ann. p. 264, seem to have copied from Simeon of Dur ham.

page 223 note [p] History of the English Church, vol. I. p. 279.

page 223 note [q] “Iste (Willelmus) fecit-totam Angliam describi, quantum terræ qui; “baronum possedit—quotque ecclesiarum dignitates.—Et repertum fuit primo “summa ecclesiarum XLV M XI.” Tho. Sprot. Chron. edit. Hearne, p. 114.

page 223 note [r] P. 186.

page 223 note [s] Wilkins, Concil. Mag. Britan. vol. I. p. 300.

page 224 note [t] Wilkins, Concil. Mag. Britan. vol. I. p. 311.

page 224 note [u] Eccles. Cases, vol. I. Pref. p. 12.

page 224 note [v] According to the bishop, in the deanry of Warwick 10, of Kington 15 churches are noticed in Domesday. According to Ecton' Liber valor. there are now in the former diocese 29, and in the latter 36.

page 224 note [w] The chrism money was granted by Ernulf to the monks of his priory of St. Andrew. Registrum Roff.

page 225 note [x] Dr. Nash's Collections, vol. I. p. 474. vol. II. p. 593. and Appendix, p. 11.

page 225 note [y] Ibid. vol. I. p. 245.

page 225 note [z] Archaeologia, vol. VII. p. 87.

page 226 note [a] Mr. Hasted's Kent, vol. I. p. 210.

page 226 note [b] Mr. Hutchins's Dorsetshire, Domesday, p. 9. Ecclesiola does not occur in the Glossary of Spelman, or of Dufresne.

page 226 note [c] Leland's Itin. vol. V. p. 122. Ethelwold is said to have built lapideam ecclesiolam in Thornensi loco. Leland's Itin. vol. VII. p. ii. p. 68. Ex vita Sti. Botolphi.

page 226 note [d] See Authorities, p. 234.

page 226 note [e] Will not this observation be applicable in a degree to castles, I mean to the fabrics of them? In the Annals of Waverly (Webb's Memoir, p. 5,) it is observed that an enquiry was to be made “quid una quæque urbs, castellum, “vicus &c. reddit per ann.” Castles are, however, seldom recited, and that rather incidentally. Those at Canterbury and Rochester seem to have been only mentioned, because for the former the king had given twenty-one burgesses to the archbishop and the abbot of St. Augustine, and because the bishop of Rochester held lands in Aylesford in exchange for the ground upon which the latter castle was built. It is also recited in the Domesday of Dorsetshire what the king gave for a hide of land of the manor of Chingstone, on which he built Warham Castle. Tit. 19.

page 226 note [f] See Authorities at p. 234.

page 227 note [g] See Authorities at p. 235.

page 227 note [h] See ditto, p. 235.

page 227 note [i] Lord Lyttleton's History of Henry II. vol. III. p. 239. 8°. edit.

page 228 note [k] Decimæ, I have a notion, may not occur above once in the Domesday of Dorsetshire, and that in the first paragraph of Tit. 24. which is as follows: “Bristuard p'b'r ten' æccl'am de Dorcestre 7 Bere, 7 decimas ibi p'tin' 1. hida “7 xx ac' t'ræ valent iiii. lib.” Whether the tithes of these churches are reckoned in this valuation is rather doubtful.

page 228 note [l] Dr. Nash's Worcestershire, ubi sup.

page 229 note [m] Some are cited in p. 237.

page 229 note [n] Edit. by Battely, p. 86. 163.

page 229 note [o] Sim. Dunelm. X Script. col. 169. Hoveden, p. 248.

page 230 note [p] Johnson's Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws MXVIII. 29.

page 230 note [q] Walk in and about Canterbury, p. 73. &c.

page 230 note [r] Lewis's History of the Isle of Thanet, p. 92.

page 231 note [s] Ecclesia de novo constructa. Dr. Nash's Worcestershire, vol. I. p. 503. Probably the church began A. 1092 by Aylwin Child a citizen of London, for the convent of Cluniacs he intended to settle at that place. Tanner, Notit. Monast. p. 535.

page 231 note [t] Duke Eadulf, A. 940, gave Darenth to Christ Church Canterbury, and it was held by archbishop Lanfranc at the time of the Domesday survey.

page 232 note [u] The interior diameter of the bason is 29 inches, its rim 3 inches, and the depth of it 17. By Mr. Warton's account the interior diameter of the Islip font is 30 inches, and the depth of it 20.

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