The Ely Inquiry or Inquisitio Eliensis [ IE ] was a satellite of the 1086 Domesday survey. Its importance is both that it gives a more detailed account of the local area than Domesday Book itself, and that its prologue offers an account of the terms of enquiry of the Domesday survey.
6-565: According to David C. Douglas , the Ely Inquiry was the product of an ecclesiastical landlord using the Domesday survey to produce a record of his own estates – something supported by the way it records the lands of one tenant-in-chief across many different Domesday circuits. The prologue to IE gives an account of the methods of the Domesday inquest, working by way of reports (under oath) of sheriffs, Barons "and of their Frenchmen and of
12-508: The actual Domesday process, the prologue is perhaps better seen as an abbreviated guide to the questions used, not as necessarily having a direct link to the official specifications. The survey provides more information than its main equivalent, Little Domesday . In particular it gives more details about the jurors behind it, as well as stressing the local roles of sokemen . Its summaries emphasise taxable capacities; while its closing schedules have been interpreted as records of early stages of
18-778: The annual James Ford lectures in British History at the University of Oxford on "William the Conqueror:The Norman Impact upon England" as documented in the Misplaced Pages article entitled Ford Lectures . The following year his book with the same title was published by Eyre Methuen Ltd. A new edition was published by Yale University Press in 1999 as part of the Yale English Monarchs series with a new foreword by Frank Barlow. The back cover of
24-539: The book states that Professor C Douglas was Professor of History at the University of Bristol and founding editor of the English Monarchs series and in the Preface reproduced from the original 1964 edition Professor Douglas alludes "specially to my friends in the University of Bristol" in his thanks to those who helped him in connexion with this work. This article about a British historian or genealogist
30-678: The inquest (which had been edited out in the main work). David C. Douglas David Charles Douglas (January 5, 1898 – January 10, 1982) was a historian of the Norman period at the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford . He joined Oxford University in 1963 as Ford's Lecturer in English History, and was the 1939 winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize . In 1963 he delivered
36-520: The whole hundred , of the priest, the reeve, and six villeins of each vill ". It records a series of questions to be asked with respect to each manor, adding that all the answers were to be given in triplicate – "hoc totum tripliciter" – so as to cover three distinct times: Edward the Confessor's day, the time of the Conquest (1066), and the present-day (1086). While sometimes taken to fully reflect
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