A General Introduction to Domesday Book Author:Henry Ellis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3II.—PRINCIPAL MATTERS NOTICED In THIS RECORD. Sect. 1.—PERSONS. Principal i. After the Bishops and Abbats, the highest Matters noticed _- T in this Record, persons in rank wer... more »e the Norman Joarons. In Domesday, the " Barones Regis" are but rarely noticed: and even then, in most cases, we are to understand the King's justiciaries, before whom the claims on property were litigated.i From one or two entries, however, there can be little doubt that the designation was generally applied to the King's immediate freeholders, the Tenants in capite. In the account of Wareham in Dorsetshire, it is said, "De parte S. Wandre- gisili s? ibi. Xl.v. dom9 stantes. 7 xvn. sl vastae. textit{De partibj aliof. Baron' si ibi. xx. dom9 stantes. 7 Lx. st destructae."2 And, in the account of Warwick, it is said, " habet Rex in dilio suo. c.xm. domus. 7 textit{Barones regis h'nt cxn. de quibj 1 Under Thorp in Suffolk we read, " hanc tra inua- diauit Abbas [S. Edm.] ct Barones Regis. scilicet W. epm. Engelricu. 7 Rad. Stalra pro c"." And, again, in the same County, upon the Bishop of Baieux's property at Asfelda, " he inuener Barones Regis in pace inter Rogum bigot 7 Hugone comite." tom. ii. foll. 367 b. 377- 5 Domesd. tom. i. fol. 75. ofnib) rex habet geldu suum." An enumeration Principal of the persons holding these masures follows ; in tbu Record, after which it is said, " Hae masurae ptin ad § i.~p^son». tras q's ipsi barones ten extra burgu. 7 ibi appciatae sunt." 1 " Barones regis" occur continually for Tenants in chief in the Exeter Domesday.2 2. The Taini, textit{Tegni, Teigni, Teini, or textit{Teinni, are to be next mentioned, because those of the highest class were, in fact, the Nobility, or Barons of the Saxon times. The Thanes of the Saxon times, says Kelham, were divided into Thani Regis, T...« less