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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
THIS remarkable document was printed by Sir Henry Ellis (1833) in his General Introduction to Domesday (i. 184–187) from the fine Peterborough Cartulary belonging to the Society of Antiquaries (MS. 60). I shall not, therefore, reprint it here, but will give the opening entry as a specimen of its style:–
This is into Suttunes (Sutton) hundred, that is an hundred hides. So it was in King Edward's day. And thereof is “gewered” one and twenty hides and two-thirds of a hide, and [there are] forty hides inland and ten hides [of] the King's ferm land, and eight and twenty hides and the third of a hide waste.
We have seen (supra, p. 59) that Ellis not only erred, but even led Dr. Stubbs into error, as to the character of the “hundreds” enumerated in this document. Except for that, I cannot find any real notice taken of it, although it has been in print over sixty years. It appears to be not even mentioned in Mr. Stuart Moore's volume on Northamptonshire in Domesday; and no one, it seems, has cared to enquire to what date it belongs, or what it really is.
Now, although written in old English, it is well subsequent to the Conquest, for it mentions inter alios “Rodbertes wif heorles,” who, we shall find, was Maud, wife of the Count of Mortain.
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