1To be “in lot and scot” is in modern phrase “to pay rates.”

2I.e., if he be killed.

3Date unknown.

4I.e., “alms.” To hold in “almoin” is to hold by the sole service of prayers for the grantor.

5The hide was at once a measure of land normally consisting of about 120 acres, and a fiscal unit; a Domesday manor containing ten hides for purposes of taxation might comprise a larger area than 1,200 acres.

6A socman holds land by the service of attending the lords’ court or soke.

7Highway robbery.

8Housebreaking.

9I.e., the precincts, one mile and a half round.

10I.e., from all national and local burdens, whether financial, judicial, or otherwise.

11Rights of jurisdiction.

12Toll.

13Right to summon possessors of stolen property to name the person from whom they received it.

14Apprehension of offenders.

15Payment for watch and ward.

16Market, fair, and port tolls.

17Fine for housebreaking.

18Highway robbery and the fine due for the same.

19Fine for bloodshedding.

20Fine for bastardy.

21This clause, from “with sac and soc” to “larceny,” grants to the abbey full rights of jurisdiction, with tolls, and fines for the offences specified.

22William of St. Karileph, Bishop of Durham, accused of participation in the rebellion of Bishop Odo.

23Dispossessed.

24Charged with.

25I.e., an absolute possession, free from all feudal service.

26The chronicler and the archbishop.

27Dishbearer to the royal household.

28I.e., by lavish bribery.

29A toll on travellers.

30A toll on cargoes.

31A soke is a court and an area of jurisdiction.

32The money-value set on a man if he were killed.

33The fine for changing the ground of an action once begun in court.

34Literally, a chess-board.

35In actual coin.

36I.e., agreements with the crown touching feudal payments.

37Matilda the Empress.

38On the other hand, the author of Gesta Stephani states: “The king ordered that the two bishops should be separately confined in foul places and tortured with sharp fasting, and that the chancellor, son of the bishop of Salisbury, now seized and thrown into chains, should be hanged in front of the castle gate, unless the bishop of Ely should surrender the castle and admit the king’s force.”

39This account does not agree with that of Henry of Huntingdon, who states that he was taken by William de Kahaines, after his battle-axe and sword had broken.

40Dish-bearer.