The name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which con-tains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Corn-wall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other surveys nearly contem-porary, by order of the commissioners of the public records, under the direction of Sir Henry Ellis, in a volume supplementary to the Great Domesday, folio, London, 1816. wharton