Brewer's: Liber Niger

or The Black Book of the Exchequer, compiled by Gervase of Tilbury, in the reign of Henry II. It is a roll of the military tenants.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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