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The survey is not entirely complete and lacks coverage in the City of London and some other major towns as well as the counties of Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Westmorland. Some other counties are incomplete. The many problems of the survey’s interpretation are discussed in David Roffe, ''Domesday: the inquest and the book'' (2000). | The survey is not entirely complete and lacks coverage in the City of London and some other major towns as well as the counties of Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Westmorland. Some other counties are incomplete. The many problems of the survey’s interpretation are discussed in David Roffe, ''Domesday: the inquest and the book'' (2000). | ||
The text of Domesday in its abbreviated Latin and a translation were printed in county volumes edited by John Morris as ''Domesday Book'' (38 volumes, Chichester, England: Phillimore, 1975-86) [{{FSC|13655}} book 942 R2d]; there are complete indexes of places in volume 36, of persons in volume 37 and subjects in volume 38. An online transcription is available at [http://domesdaybook.co.uk Domesday Book]. The personal names are indexed in K.S.B. Keats-Rohan and David E. Thornton, ''Domesday names: an index of Latin personal and place names in Domesday Book'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1997) [not in | The text of Domesday in its abbreviated Latin and a translation were printed in county volumes edited by John Morris as ''Domesday Book'' (38 volumes, Chichester, England: Phillimore, 1975-86) [{{FSC|13655}} book 942 R2d]; there are complete indexes of places in volume 36, of persons in volume 37 and subjects in volume 38. An online transcription is available at [http://domesdaybook.co.uk Domesday Book]. The personal names are indexed in K.S.B. Keats-Rohan and David E. Thornton, ''Domesday names: an index of Latin personal and place names in Domesday Book'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1997) [not in FS Library] and there is a careful commentary on what is known about the people involved and their subsequent histories in K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, ''Domesday people: a prosopography of persons occurring in English documents 1066-1166'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1999) [FS Library book 942 H2] and''Domesday people: II, Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 2002) [FS Library book 942 D3]. | ||
== Record Indexes and Transcripts 1090-1600 == | == Record Indexes and Transcripts 1090-1600 == | ||
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The seventeenth century lawyers were adept at finding other ways around the requirement to register and although the Statute of Frauds in 1677 required that the transfer of freehold land (‘by enfeoffment’) be evidenced in writing, lack of reliable evidence was often so prevalent that it became difficult to borrow money on the security of land. | The seventeenth century lawyers were adept at finding other ways around the requirement to register and although the Statute of Frauds in 1677 required that the transfer of freehold land (‘by enfeoffment’) be evidenced in writing, lack of reliable evidence was often so prevalent that it became difficult to borrow money on the security of land. | ||
However, historians believe that in most English villages, and many English towns of the early modern period, most property and land was conveyed through the manor courts [Christopher W. Brooks, ‘Manor courts and the governance of Tudor England’ in C.W. Brooks and Michael Lobban,''Communities and courts in Britain 1150-1900'' (London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1997) page 49; not in | However, historians believe that in most English villages, and many English towns of the early modern period, most property and land was conveyed through the manor courts [Christopher W. Brooks, ‘Manor courts and the governance of Tudor England’ in C.W. Brooks and Michael Lobban,''Communities and courts in Britain 1150-1900'' (London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1997) page 49; not in FS Library]. | ||
== Commons and Encroachment == | == Commons and Encroachment == | ||
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