45 



$otcs on tfjc ittauors of litvft Hauglcg autr 

 ittnwell Hangleg. 



[From the MSS. of the late Godfrey Meynell; compiled 

 circa 1830.]* 



MEYNELL LANGLEY. 



HE earliest record I can find relative to King's or 

 Kirk Langley is in Domesday Book ; it was then 

 part of the possessions of Ralf, the son of Hubert ; 

 and Mr. Wolley of Matlock is inclined to think that it be- 

 longed to the Meynells at a very early period. By this survey it 

 appears that — " Levenot has four carucates of land, there are to 

 the geld six carucates of land, there is in demesne one carucate, 

 and two villains and four bordars have two carucates ; there is a 

 wood where cattle may graze, one mile long and three furlongs 

 broad, and a small underwood ; in the time of Edward the Con- 

 fessor worth one hundred shillings, now only forty shillings." At 

 the compiling of Domesday Book, Langley does not appear to 

 have been held under Ralf Fitz Hubert by Robertus ; but in the 

 certificate given by Hubert Fitz Ralf, 12 Henry II , 1146, of the 

 Knights' fees held of him, Robertus de Maisnell is mentioned as 

 holding five of those Knights' fees of old feofment, which at least 

 refers to the time of Henry I., 1108. Langley appears to have 

 been one of Ralf Fitz Hubert's manors at the time Domesday 

 Book was compiled, but it is mentioned to have been then held 

 in demesne ; it is not improbable, however, that it was soon after 



* Permission to print these Notes has been kindly given by his grandson, the 

 present Mr. Godfrey Meynell, of Meynell Langley. 



