Excerpt from An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire What follows is not put forward as in any way a general Commentary on Domesday, but chiefly as an application to the record for Gloucestershire of the methods of Interpretation used by the Rev. R. W. Eyton with regard to Dorset in his "Key to Domesday," and to Somerset in his "Domesday Studies;" with only so much of explanation as seemed to be necessary to make the meaning of the record clear. The time for a Commentary on the Survey has not yet come, for the Science of Domesday has not yet passed beyond the stage of experiment; and knowledge of the subject will be best promoted by patient work on the text.of the record of each shire, by those who have learned to be prepared for very wide differences of treatment in the various parts of England. Not till this has been done for a sufficient number of shires in each of the Commissioners' districts, will the materials have been collected for complete knowledge of the methods employed in the Compilation of the record, and the signification of the terms used in it. I must acknowledge a special Obligation to Mr. Freeman's "History of the Norman Conquest," to Mr. Seebohm's "English Village Community," and to the book on "The Domesday of Wilts," by the late Canon Jones, of Bradford-on-Avon. Also to the Rev. G. Butterworth, for information concerning the ancient Church at Deerhurst, and to the Rev. E. A. Fuller for much valuable help with regard to the neighbourhood of Cirencester, and for kind encouragement, without which this task would not have been undertaken. The text used has been that of the Photo-Zincographed fac-simile published by the Ordnance Survey. Attention is needed to the "Corrigenda," especially those relating to pages 44 and 81. The work has occupied a large part of my leisure time for five years, but it has been a labour thoroughly enjoyed; for, with the exception of the extreme north of the Shire, very few villages are mentioned which I have not seen, and those are few indeed whose names are not connected in memory with some pleasant incidents of intercourse with the children in the village schools, who are the truest representatives of the Domesday families of Gloucestershire, and with their Pastors and Teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.