firm
resolve to make the under-tenants (though the "men" of their lords)
swear allegiance directly to himself. As Domesday normally records only
the Christian name of an under-tenant, it is vain to seek for the
surnames of families claiming a Norman origin; but much has been and is
still being done to identify the under-tenants, the great bulk of whom
bear foreign names.

Domesday Book was originally preserved in the royal treasury at
Winchester (the Norman kings' capital), whence it speaks of itself (in
one later addition) as _Liber de Wintonia_. When the treasury was
removed to Westminster (probably under Henry II.) the book went with it.
Here it remained until the days of Queen Victoria, being preserved from
1696 onwards in the Chapter House, and only removed in special
circumstances, as when it was sent to Southampton for photozincographic
reproduction. It was eventually placed in the Public Record Office,
London, where it can be seen in a glass case in the museum. In 1869 it
received a modern binding. The ancient Domesday chest, in which it used
to be kept, is also preserved in the building.

The printing of Domesday, in "record type," was begun by government in
1773, and the book was published, in two volumes fol. in 1783; in 1811 a
volume of indexes was added, and in 1816 a supplementary volume,
separately indexed, containing (1) the "Exon Domesday" (for the
south-western counties), (2) the _Inquisitio Eliensis_, (3) the _Liber
Winton_ (surveys of Winchester early in the 12th century), and (4) the
_Boldon Book_--a survey of the bishopric of Durham a century later than
Domesday. Photographic facsimiles of Domesday Book, for each county
separately, were published in 1861-1863, also by government.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The following are the more important works to be
consulted:--R. Kelham, _Domesday Book_, illustrated (1788); H. Ellis,
_General Introduction to Domesday Book_ (1833), 2 vols., containing
valuable indexes to the names of persons; N. E. S. A. Hamilton,
_Inquisitio Cantabrigiensis_ (1876), containing the only transcripts
of the original returns and the text of the _Inquisitio Eliensis_; E.
A. Freeman, _History of the Norman Conquest_, vols. iv. and v.; F.
Seebohm, _The English Village Community_ (1883); _Domesday Studies_, 2
vols. (1888, 1891), on the occasion of the Domesday Commemoration
(1886), by various writers, with bibliography to date; J. H. Round,
_Feudal England_ (1895); F. W