Claims database
(version 1b)

The Claims database was compiled by myself for this project.

The Claims database contains records of the separate sections of Domesday Book devoted to claims, whose structure is largely incompatible with that of other Domesday entries. Claims sections are included for Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in Great Domesday. The three counties of Little Domesday Book also contain separate sections on claims, recorded as 'Annexations'; but since the bulk of these conform to the structure of normal rural manors they are not recorded here but have been included in the main DomesdayStatistics database. They are recorded at the end of each county and are easily extracted by their fief numbers. Claims recorded incidentally elsewhere in Domesday Book are not included here.

There is little statistical information in the Claims sections, and what there is almost always duplicates information given in the entries to which the claims refer. Hence there is virtually no loss of statistical information in separating these records from the main statistical database. As data from the Claims database is unsuitable for aggregation, normal database conventions on disaggregating data have not been adhered to.

The Claims database contains two tables and is linked to the DomesdayStatistics database, indexes and the DomesdayTextbase. The Claims table is also included in the DomesdayStatistics database but is supplied here separately with the Entries table for the convenience of users.

The Entries table contains four fields and 289 records:
StructIdx	Numerical equivalent of County/Phillimore for linkage & sorting
County	Standard 3-letter abbreviation for the Domesday county
Phillimore	Phillimore entry reference
TextType	Type of entry: Boroughs (U), Customs (C), Rural (E), or Welsh (W).

The Claims table contains sixteen fields and 289 records:
ClaimsID	Unique record ID for table
StructIdx	Numerical equivalent of County/Phillimore for linkage & sorting
County	Standard abbreviation for the Domesday county
Phillimore	Phillimore entry reference
Vill	Domesday manor(s) or vill(s) to which the dispute refers
Holding	Nature and scale of holding in dispute
TenInChief	Tenant-in-chief of the manor, holding directly to the Crown
Lord86	The immediate lord of the peasantry, either the tenant-in-chief himself or a tenant to whom he had granted the estate
Overlord66	Overlord of the manor before 1066; overlord of the 'man' holding the manor TRE
Lord66	Lord of the manor before 1066: the landholder in receipt of the profits of the estate TRE
Claimant	Claimant or claimants in the dispute
Defendant	Defendant or defendants in the dispute
Jurors	The 'sworn men' of the county, Riding or Hundred
Xref	Phillimore entries to which claim refers
Notes	Comments on entry
Text	Text of the Phillimore entry.

J.J.N. Palmer,
July 2010.