DOMESDAY SURVEY reasons which called forth these acts of favour from the Crown we know nothing. In the preceding pages reference has been made to the existence of scribal errors in Domesday Book. Owing to the small number of contem- porary records which have come down to us it is rarely possible to prove Domesday inaccurate by direct comparison with other documents, but it sometimes happens that the Domesday scribes themselves give two versions of the survey of the same manor, and the result is usually instructive. In the survey of Lincolnshire, for example, the compilers of Domesday Book have inserted descriptions of eight out of the twelve manors which composed the Alstoe Wapentake of 1086 ; and the duplicate entries are given below in parallel columns. fVhissendine^ folio 293^ (Rutland) M II. — In WicHiNGEDENE habuit Wallef comes iiii carucatas terrae ad geldum. Terra xii carucis. Ibi Hugo de Hotot de comitissa habet V carucas 7 xxvii villaiios 7 vi bordarios habentes viii carucas. T.R.E. valuit viii libras mode xiii libras. Whhsendine, folio 366^ (Lincolnshire) M. — In WiCHiNGEDENE habuit Wallef comes iiii carucas terrae ad geldum. Terra xii carucis. Ibi Hugo homo comitissae habet v carucas in dominio 7 xxvii villanos 7 vii bordarios cum viii carucis. Pratum x quarentenae longitudine 7 viii quarentenae latitudine. Between these entries there is some variation in the formulas employed, but it is more noteworthy that the Rutland entry omits all reference to the meadow, gives the number of pre-Conquest manors in the vill, wrongly, as two instead of one, and asserts that there were six bordarii in the manor instead of seven as recorded in the Lincolnshire entry. On the other hand the latter gives no value for the estate. Exton, folio 293^ (Rutland) M. — In ExENTUNE habuit Wallef comes ii carucatas terrae ad geldum. Terra xii carucis. Ibi habet Judita comitissa iii carucas 7 xxxvii villanos cum viii carucis ; 7 ii molendina (de) xiii solidis. Pratum vi quarentenae in longitu- dine. Silva per loca pastilisv quarentenae longi- tudine 7 V latitudine. T.R.E. valuit viii libras, modo X libras. Exton, folio 366 (Lincolnshire) M. — In ExENTUNE habuit Wallef comes ii carucas terrae ad geldum. Terra xii carucis. Ibi habet Jud(ita) comitissa iii carucas 7 xxxvii villanos cum viii carucis 7 ii molendina (de) xiii solidis. Pratum vi quarentenae in longitudine. Silva pastilis per loca v quarentenae longitudine 7 V latitudine. T.R.E. valuit viii libras modo x libras. Thistleton, folio 293* (Rutland) M. — In TisTERTUNE habuit Erich dimidiam carucatam terrae ad geldum. Terra i caruca. Ibi Hugo de Judita comitissa habet i carucam 7 vi villanos cum i caruca. T.R.E. valuit xx solidos, modo xl solidos. Thistleton^ folio 366 (Lincolnshire) M. — In TisTERTUNE habuit Erich dimidiam carucatam terrae ad geldum. Terra i caruca. Ibi Hugo habet homo comitissae i carucam 7 vi villanos cum i caruca. T.R.E. valuit xx solidos, modo xl. Whitwell, folio 293^ (Rutland) M. — In WiTEWELLE habuit Besy i carucatam terrae ad geldum. Terra iii carucis. Ibi Her- bert de comitissa Judita habet i carucam 7 vi villanos 7 iiii bordarios habentes ii carucas. Ibi ecclesia 7 presbiter 7 xx acras prati 7 i molen- dinum (de) xii denariis. Silva per loca pastilis vi quarentenae 7 vi perticae longitudine 7 iii quarentenae 7 xiii perticae latitudine. T.R.E. valuit xx solidos, modo xl. I I Whitwell, folio 366 (Lincolnshire) M. — In WiTEWELLE habuit Besy i carucatam terrae ad geldum. Terra iii carucis. Ibi Her- bert homo comitissae habet i carucam 7 vi villanos 7 iiii bordarios cum ii carucis. Ibi ecclesia 7 presbiter 7 i molendinum (de) xii denariis 7 xx acras prati. Silva pastilis vi quaren- tenae 7 vi perticae longitudine 7 iii quarentenae 7 xiii perticae latitudine. Valet xl solidos. 29 17
