It is one of those exceedingly rare documents that find their correlatives in Domesday.
So far as it deals with the Domesday hide, it is supported by two arguments.
Even at the date of Domesday Book the abbey held no less than thirty manors.
In the Domesday enumeration of castles, we have repeated mention of houses destroyed and lands wasted, for their erection.
Domesday of St. Paul's, 1: 'Nulla est ibi pastura nisi in boscis et viis.'
