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THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SURVEY

fee of Peverel.[1] There also the earl of Leicester 2 hides and i great virgate.[2]

In Cotesbork [Cottesbrook] Robert Bote- vileyn 2 hides of the fee of Wahill'.[3]

In Creton [Creaton Magna] Aunsel de Chokes I hide.[4]

In another Creton [Creaton Parva] Herbert half a hide of the fee of Ralf de Gaynes.[5]

In Westhaddon Hugh the sheriff 2 hides (and) I great virgate.[6] There also Peverel I great virgate and a half.[7] There also Aunsel de Chokes i great virgate.[8] There also the earl of Leicester half a hide. There also Nigel de Albeny half a hide of the fee of Roger de Moubray.[9]

In Watford (there are) 4 hides of the fee of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert.[10]

In Buckbey Series {sic) de Quency 2 hides (and) a half and I great virgate of the fee of Aunsel de Chokes.[11] There also William Fitz Alvred (Alfridi) half a hide of the fee of Montacute (Montis acuti)[12] There also the earl of Leicester 3 great virgates.[13]

In Crek [Crick] Roger de Caunvill' 3 hides (and) a half and 1 great virgate of the fee of Roger de Mowbray.[14]

In Lilleburn and Cotes [Claycoton] the earl of Leicester 4 hides.[15] There also William son of Alvred {Alfridi) I great virgate.[16]

In Stanford the abbot of Selby {SeUhy) 2 hides. [17]

In Welleford [Welford] William de Wyvill 4 hides and i great virgate of the fee of Roger de Mowbray[18] of Gildetote [? Chilcote]. There also Ad[am] I hide (and) a half of the fee of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert.

In Gelvertoft [Yelvertoft] (there are) 2 hides and the third part of 1 hide of the fee of the earl of Leicester.[19] There also Ralf Fitz Osmund half a hide of the fee of William Fitz Alvred.[20]

In Eltesdon' [Elkington] Hugh the sheriff 1 hide (and) a half. The monks of Pippewell are the tenants.[21] There also Hugh 1 great virgate of the fee of Westminster. There also Hugh de Kaynes 4 small virgates.[22] There also Nigel de Aubeny 2 small virgates of the fee of Welleford'.[23]

  1. ↑ Held of William Peverel by a socman, in 1086, as a dependency of Cotton-under-Guilsborough.
  2. ↑ Which his predecessor the count of Mortain had held as 2 hides in 1086.
  3. ↑ In 1086 Dodin had held 1¼ hides there of the lord of Wahill and half a hide of the King himself.
  4. ↑ Held by Gunfrei de 'Cioches' in 1086.
  5. ↑ Held of the count of Mortain by William (de 'Cahainges') in 1086. 'Gaynes is the same as 'Cahainges.'
  6. ↑ This holding seems to represent the 2 hides here assigned by Domesday to 'the church of Coventry.'
  7. ↑ William Peverel's in 1086.
  8. ↑ Held by Gunfrei de 'Cioches' in 1086.
  9. ↑ This probably means that half a hide had been given there to Nigel, and had descended to his son Roger de Mowbray.
  10. ↑ Domesday assigns to Gilbert only 2 hides there.
  11. ↑ Held in 1086 by Gunfrei de ' Cioches' as 2 hides and a virgate and half a hide of soc(land).
  12. ↑ Held by his father Alvred of the count of Mortain, as 3 virgates, in 1086, unless this was the holding which follows.
  13. ↑ It should be observed that this holding, which cannot be identified in Domesday, makes up exactly 4 hides for Buckby.
  14. ↑ This was part of the escheated fief of Geoffrey de Wirce, who held there 4 hides less a virgate (the same amount as above) in 1086.
  15. ↑ This included 2½ hides at Lilbourne, part of the escheated fief of Earl Aubrey, but the balance is not accounted for by the 3^ virgates of William Peverel, which is all that Domesday assigns to Coton.
  16. ↑ Which his father Alvred held of the count of Mortain in 1086.
  17. ↑ Two hides less a virgate in Domesday.
  18. ↑ This was held, as 4 hides, of Geoffrey de Wirce by 'Alfridus' in 1086.
  19. ↑ Robert (of Rhuddlan) held them of Earl Hugh (of Chester), as 2 hides and i virgate, in 1086.
  20. ↑ Held by Alvred of the count of Mortain, as 3 virgates, in 1086.
  21. ↑ Hugh's holdings here amount to 1 hide and 3 virgates, which was the amount here held of the count of Mortain, in 1086, by Alvred.
  22. ↑ Possibly what was held of Guy de 'Reinbuedcurt' by 'Turchil' in 1086 as three-quarters of a virgate.
  23. ↑ This was the 'quarter virgate' entered

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