Excerpt from The Archaeological Journal, 1846, Vol. 3 The first endowment made during the reign of William the Conqueror is now only to be collected from the entries of its possessions in Domesday book, and from an original charter of that king, which is preserved in the Cottoniarr manuscript. 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.