 Complete the following phrase:  Each countys list opened with the kings demesne lands, which had possibly been the subject of separate inquiry. Under the feudal system, the king was the only true owner of land in England, by virtue of his allodial title. He was thus the ultimate overlord, and even the greatest magnate could do no more than hold land from him as a tet from the Latin verb tenere, to hold under one of the various contracts of feudal land tenure. Holdings of bishops followed, then of the abbeys and religious houses, then of lay tets-in-chief and lastly the kings serjeants servientes, and Saxon thegns who had survived the 