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merely due to caprice. For instance, at Woughton-on-the-Green, after the words, ' Hoc manerium tenuerunt viii teigni,' we have full details of their holdings and their seven different lords ; at Moulsoe, after the same words, the names and holdings of the eight Englishmen are given in full ; but at Chicheley, where ' nine thegns ' had held a manor of 3¾ hides, we are given no information at all as to their names or holdings. The most important entry of the kind is one that is mentioned by Professor Maitland,^[1] where (at Lavendon) we read :

Hoc manerium tenuerunt viii teigni, et unus eorum, Alii homo regis Edwardi, senior aliorum fuit.

This is supposed to imply that ' Alii ' represented the whole group in the eyes of the Crown.

' Inland,' that is the portion of a manor which was exempt from ' geld,' is scarcely mentioned in this county. Indeed, its name is not found, but the five ' carucatae terra ' at Hanslope in demesne, over and above its 5 hides, were undoubtedly ' inland ' ; and so, perhaps, were the four ' carucatas terras ' in demesne at Newport Pagnel, and the three in demesne at Turweston.

Of legal terms, as we might expect in the troublous age of the Conquest, disseisin is not wanting ; at Bradwell, Ansculf, when sheriff, had ' disseised ' the holder of 3 virgates ; at Drayton (Parslow) the Bishop of Coutances had ' disseised ' Ralf ' Passaquam ' and given the land to a follower of his own. Instances of exchange occur on the lands of the Bishop of Coutances and of William Fitz Ansculf,^[2] and we also read that Robert d'Ouilly had obtained Iver in exchange for Padbury. A curious entry under Clifton (Reynes) charges the Norman under- tenants with having taken possession of some land without the king's knowledge. ^[3] The (mort)gage (vadium) of land occurs at Simpson.

The names of classes in this county are those usually met with, but there is mention at Caldecot of two vavassors, and at High Wy- combe of four ' boors' (buri),

The last subject we have to consider is that of the Domesday Hundreds, eighteen in number. These are now represented by six, each of which comprises three of the old Hundreds. A table will make the arrangement clear :

'Stanes'	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	The Three Hindreds of Aylesury
'Elesberie'
'Riseberg'
'Stoches'	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	The Chiltern Hundreds
' Burneham '
' Dustenberg '
Ticheshele '	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Ashendon Hundred
'Essedene'
'Votesdone'
'Coteslai'	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Cottesloe Hundred
'Erlai'
'Mursalai'
'Stodfald '	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Buckingham Hundred
'Rovelai '
'Lamva'
'Sigelai '	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Newport Hundred
'Bonestou'
'Molesoveslau '

1. Domesday Book and Beyond, p. 14.5.
2. See pp. 240, 241, 254, below. On the Bishop's exchange of Bleadon, Somerset, for lands in Beds and Bucks, see V. C. H. Beds i. 196.
3. ' iii virgatas . . . habent occupatas et celatas super regem, ut homines de hundret dicunt.'

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