CLAMORES

Clamores: translation

The word, meaning claims, is used in *DB as heading for a section of entries found in several counties, placed as an appendix. These entries concern properties over which there were claims and disputes - about who held what and the size of holdings. In the Little DB which covered Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, this section was titled Invasiones = annexations. There is a similar section for Huntingdonshire but this is untitled. In the *Liber Exoniensis, the claims are referred to as terrae occupatae = appropriated lands. For the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire entries clamores is used. [< Lat. clamo = call aloud, to complain]