1881, ISBN: 9780217704663

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. INTERNAL STATE OF STAFFORDSHIRE A.D. Io86. TERR.1i VAST/F. THE BURGH OF STAFFORD. STAFFORD CASTLE. ABNORMAL PROPORTIONS OF THE HIDE. INADEQUATE TEAM-POWER. POPULATION. CONDITION AND VALUE OF STAFFORDSHIRE MANORS ANNEXED AFTER DOMESDAY TO SHROPSHIRE. STAFFORDSHIRE MILLS. PARISH CHURCHES. CAKUCAT/E TERRA ALLUSIONS OF CHRONICLES TO EVENTS CONNECTED WITH STAFFORDSHIRE IN THE XRA. PRECEDING DOMESDAY. The objects of those mighty ministers who conducted the Domesday Survey were of a statistical, financial, practical, character. They were instructed to ascertain facts not to illustrate those facts by any views or opinions of their own, still less to dwell on facts which, being already notorious, needed no ascertainment. The facts which they had to ascertain were only pcr accidcns of an historical type. They were compelled occasionally to give scraps of history but they never adulterated their record with scraps of philosophy. Such history as we gain from Domesday is the more reliable in that it was quite unpremeditated. The Commissioners who visited Staffordshire did not say that it was a county inadequately populated, inadequately stocked, incapable of ordinary taxation, normally poor. Nor yet did they state that, since the conquest, the county had been visited by extraordinary troubles and depressions, from which it was partially recovering. Nevertheless, some of these things are deducible from what they did say, others from what they left unsaid. Of nearly all settled and occupied estates the Staffordshire Commissioners were enabled to ascertain the current annual value. Their instructions were further to ascertain the correlative values in the time of King Edward, and at any intermediate period. Their enquiries as to the values of King Edward's time were ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<