Another peculiarity of the _Inquisitio_ is the care with which it records the names of sokemen on the Abbey estates when omitted in the I.C.C. and D.B. This may lead us to ask whether its compilers supplied these names from their personal knowledge. We might think not, for in some cases they are recorded by the D.B. and the I.C.C., while in one (p. 106) the I.E. actually omits the name, reading only 'quidam sochemanus', where the other two documents (p. 46) supply his name ('Fridebertus'). From this we might infer that the names were probably recorded in the original returns, but deemed of too slight importance to be always copied by the transcriber. Yet the balance of evidence leads me to believe that the I.E. did supply names from independent knowledge. With the values, however, the case is clearer. The I.E. contains special and exclusive information on the value of socman-holdings, and must, I think, have derived it from some other source than the original Domesday returns. Here are some instances in point.
III. sochemanni fuerunt ... In Erningetone fuit quidam secundus homo abbatis de Ely sochemannus, _Ædwardus_, et tenuit ii.[235] hidas ... habuit i. hidam. Homo abbatis Potuerunt Eli fuit in obitu regis Ædwardi, recedere (p. 83). sed terram suam vendere potuit; sed soca semper S. Ædeldrede remansit (p. 110).
X. sochemanni ... et i. istorum In Ouro fuit quidam sochemannus homo abbatis de Ely fuit. _nomine Standardus_, qui dimidiam Dimidiam hidam habuit. Non hidam habuit sub abbate ely. Non potuit dare neque vendere, et potuit ire ab eo nec separare ab ii. istorum, homines predicti ecclesia _et valet viginti abbatis, iii. virgas habuerunt, solidos_. Et modo habet vendere potuerunt; soca remansit Hardwinus. Et alii ii. sochemanni abbati (p. 91). iii. virgatas habuerunt. Potuerunt dare vel vendere sine soca cui voluerunt et modo tenet Hardwinus. _Et valet_ xv. _solidos_ (p. 112).
Et x^{ us} [sochemannus] homo Quidam sochemannus sub abbate abbatis de ely fuit. i. hidam et eli i. hidam et dim. tenuit dim. habuit. Et omnes isti T.R.E. potuit dare sine licentiam recedere potuerunt; et vendere [_sic_] eius, sine socha. Et modo terram suam cui voluerunt Picot vicecomes tenet eam sub (p. 95). abbate ely. _Valet_ x. _sol_. (p. 113).