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Circuit commissioners — OCR GCSE History B Definition | GradeGen

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GCSE History · key term

Circuit commissioners

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Officials responsible for conducting the royal inquiry in an allocated group of counties, known as a circuit.

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OCR GCSE History B · J411

Paper 1

Circuit commissioners produced written returns, recorded in Latin. These were sent to Winchester, where the main Domesday scribe condensed the returns from six circuits into Great Domesday.
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