CONTENTS

PREFACE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ESSAY I

DOMESDAY BOOK

§ 1. Plan of the Survey

§ 2. The Serfs

§ 3. The Villeins

§ 4. The Sokemen

§ 5. Sake and Soke

§ 6. The Manor

§ 7. Manor and Vill

§ 8. The Feudal Superstructure

§ 9. The Boroughs

ESSAY II

ENGLAND BEFORE THE CONQUEST

§ 1. Book-land and the Land-book

§ 2. Book-land and Folk-land

§ 3. Sake and Soke

§ 4. Book-land and Loan-land

§ 5. The Growth of Seignorial Power

§ 6. The Village Community

ESSAY III

THE HIDE

§ 1. Measures and Fields

§ 2. Domesday Statistics

Statistical Tables

§ 3. Beyond Domesday