Winton Domesday Winton Domesday The Winton Domesday or Liber Winton is a 12th-century English administrative document recording the landholdings in the city of Winchester together with their tenants and the rents and services due from them. The city was not included in the surveys that produced Domesday Book in 1086. The manuscript brings together the returns from two different "satellite" surveys. The first was carried out for King Henry I in "c". 1110 (1103 x 1115) and covered the royal holdings in Winchester, describing conditions before and after the Conquest. This part also draws on an earlier survey, now lost, made in
George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton leaving the sanctuary) live to reach Cupar and have a fair trial; he was hanged before he got there. Lord Winton's character was very original, and he was calumniated by enemies and misunderstood by friends, as though his plea and defence, so peculiar to himself, were signs of an unbalanced mind. Sir Walter Scott refutes these insinuations: "But, if we judge from his conduct in the rebellion, Lord Winton appears to have displayed more sense and prudence than most of those engaged in that unfortunate affair." While lying in the Tower under sentence, a trusty servant managed to furnish him