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After the list of the tenants, the manors and possessions themselves which belong to the king, and also to each owner throughout the whole county, whether they lie in the same or different hundreds, are collected together and minutely noted, with their under-tenants.
The king's demesnes, under the title Terra regis, always stand first, as Rex Willelmus, Rex W. Will. Rex Anglorum, or Rex tenet or habet A, &c. Then the lands which belong to some bishop, religious house, or great tenant, as Terra Archiepi, &c.
In the last volume, under Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, the liberi homines are ranked separate; and there is also a title for Invasiones super regem.
The description is generally thus:-How many hides[1], or carucates, the land is gelded or taxed at? whose it was in the time of king Edward? who the present owner, and the sub-tenants? what and how much arable land, meadow, pasture, and wood, there is? how much in demesne, how much in tenancy, and what number of ploughs it will keep? what mills and fishings, how many freemen, sockmen, co-liberti, cotarii, bordarii, radmanni, radchenistres, villans, maid-servants, and bondmen there are? in some counties, what young cattle, sheep, working horses, &c. are upon the land? and how many hogs the woods will support? sometimes what churches[2] there are, and how many priests
