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DOMESDAY SURVEY partly comprised therein. The Domesday survey is not affected, it would seem, by these ' outlyers,' and they cannot, therefore, in this place claim more than mention. But, taken in conjunction with the fact that Berkshire was comprised within the diocese of Salisbury, and that the bishop of that see had held an ancient and extensive lordship in the east of the county, they seem to be relics of an earlier age, and remind us that the map of an English shire may bear mute witness to kingdoms out of which the nation grew, to realms which are beyond the reach of records or the chronicles of men. 321 41