 Sir Henry Spelman was the first to publish the Tribal Hidage in his first volume of "Glossarium Archaiologicum" (1626) and there is also a version of the text in a book written in 1691 by Thomas Gale, but no actual discussion of the Tribal Hidage emerged until 1848, when John Mitchell Kemble's "The Saxons in England" was published.In 1884, Walter de Gray Birch wrote a paper for the British Archaeological Society, in which he discussed in detail the location of each of the tribes.The term "Tribal Hidage" was introduced by Frederic William Maitland in 1897, in his book "Domesday Book and Beyond".