[27] See Round, Feudal England, p. 118. Mr Round seems to think that the commissioners made a circuit through the hundreds. I doubt they did more than their successors the justices in eyre were wont to do, that is, they held in the shire-town a moot which was attended by (1) the magnates of the shire who spoke for the shire, (2) a jury from every hundred, (3) a deputation of _villani_ from every township. See the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire _Clamores_ (i. 375) where we may find successive entries beginning with (_a_) _Scyra testatur_, (_b_) _Westreding testatur_, (_c_) _Testatur wapentac_. Strikingly similar entries are found on the eyre rolls. As Sir F. Pollock (Eng. Hist. Rev. xi. 213) remarks, it is misleading to speak of the Domesday 'survey'; Domesday Inquest would be better.
[30] See the table in Round, Feudal England, p. 50. I had already selected this beautiful specimen before Mr Round's book appeared. He has given several others that are quite as neat.
[31] Of course we take no account of urban parishes.
[32] Eyton's laborious studies have made this plain as regards some counties widely removed from each other; still, _e.g._ in his book on Somerset, he has now and again to note that names which appear in D. B. are obsolete.
[35] D. B. i. 41. We shall return to this matter hereafter.
[36] A good many cases will be found in Essex and Suffolk.
[40] Maitland, Surnames of English Villages, Archaeological Review, iv. 233.
[41] We do not mean to imply that there were not wide stretches of waste land which were regarded as being 'extra-villar,' or common to several vills.
[43] This of course would not be true of cases in which the lands of various villages were intermixed in one large tract of common field. As to these 'discrete vills,' see Hist. Eng. Law, i. 549.
[44] This name-giving cluster will usually contain the parish church and so will enjoy a certain preeminence. But we are to speak of a time when parish churches were novelties.
[45] See Meitzen, Siedelung und Agrarwesen der Germanen, especially ii. 119 ff.
[46] When the hamlets bear names with such ancient suffixes as -_ton_, -_ham_, -_by_, _-worth_, _-wick_, _-thorpe_, this of course is in favour of their antiquity. On the other hand, if they are known merely by family names such as _Styles's_, _Nokes's_, _Johnson's_ or the like, this, though not conclusive evidence of, is compatible with their modernity. Meitzen thinks that in Kent and along the southern shore the German invaders founded but few villages. The map does not convince me that this inference is correct.