A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



make a really complete list of these extraneous manors. In Rutland 

 alone there are more than twenty,* but these, it must be remembered, 

 were included at that time in Northamptonshire. Staffordshire, though 

 it did not touch the county, contributes three intruding manors, Marston, 

 Lapley, and West Bromwich. In Warwickshire are Sawbridge in 

 Wolfhamcote (just over the border), Berkswell and Whitacre (in the 

 heart of the county). Over (on the Leicestershire border), and Which- 

 ford (in the south of the county).* Portions of the neighbouring 

 Bedfordshire parishes of Farndish and Puddington are entered under 

 Northamptonshire (fo. 225^), on the border of which they lie. In 

 Huntingdonshire, but on the border of Northamptonshire, are Stibbing- 

 ton, Elton, Thurning, and Catworth ; portions of all four are surveyed 

 under the latter county. It is to Oxfordshire, however, that the greater 

 part of the interpolated manors belong. As it was quaintly observed by 

 Mr. Morton, they are found chiefly in ' two companies,' ^ one of them 

 at the end of the fief held by the bishop of Coutances (fo. 221), the 

 other at the end of that of Hugh de Grentmaisnil (fo. 224^). The 

 former consists of a group of vills in north-east Oxfordshire, Finmere, 

 ' Hedham ' (? Hethe) and Shelswell,* with Glympton in the heart of 

 the county, ' Oitone ' (? Wootton), ' Hortone ' (.? Worton), and ' Eg- 

 forde ' (? Upper Heyford).' The other ' company ' consists of Cottisford, 

 Charlton-on-Otmoor,' ' Scipford '(Sibford Gower), and ' Sciptune' ' (Ship- 

 ton-on-Charwell) . 



The remaining Oxfordshire locality is Mollington, which appears 

 on fo. 226 as ' Molitone.' Mr. Stuart Moore identifies it as " Milton 

 or Middleton Malsor," Northants, but the Domesday form of this place 



* Ketton, Tixover, Barrowden, Seaton, Thorp, Morcot, Bisbrooke, Glaston, North 

 Luffenham, South Luffenham, Great Casterton, Little Casterton, Horn, Lyddington, Essen- 

 dine, Tinwell, Empingham, Tolthorp, Ryhall, Belmesthorp, and Tickencote. 



^ See text for proof of these identifications. 

 ' Additional MS., 3560, fo. 159. 



* These three vills formed part later of the Gloucester fief {Testa de Nevil/, p. 104). 



* If I am right in these suggested identifications, we have here the survey of Wootton, 

 Oxfordshire, hitherto supposed to be wanting. 'Egforde' is left by Mr. Stuart Moore and by 

 the author of the valuable Notes on the Oxfordshire Domesday (1892), as an unknown 

 Oxfordshire manor ; but, as Upper Heyford, is assigned 5 hides, as ' Hegford,' under Oxford- 

 shire, it can hardly be doubted that the 5 hides of 'Egforde' represent its other half, 

 especially as its neighbour. Lower Heyford (* Haiforde '), was assessed at 10 hides. 'Hortone' 

 is similarly unidentified by the above writers, but as the latter assigns the two ' Hortone ' 

 manors, surveyed under Oxfordshire, to Worton, this is probably the place. There is, how- 

 ever, a Horton, by Otmoor, on the Bucks border, with which Mr. Morton identified it. 



^ Mr. Stuart Moore identifies this considerable manor as Carlton, Northamptonshire, 

 which, however, duly appears, under 'Stoche' Hundred, as ' Carlintone ' (fo. 223). There 

 can be no doubt that the Notes on the Oxfordshire Domesday (p. 20) is right in assigning it to 

 that county, like the manors which precede and follow it. Indeed, its identity with Charlton- 

 on-Otmoor is proved by Testa de Nevi//, p. 108. 



'' These two manors are left unidentified in the Notes on the Oxfordshire Domesday (p. 2o), 

 but they appear together in the Testa de Nevi// {pp. 100, 112), under the forms ' Sibbeford ' 

 and ' Shipton ' (or 'Scipton'), as held of the earl of Winchester, an heir of Hugh de Grent- 

 maisnil ; and their entry there on pp. 103, 1 04 proves them to have been Sibford Gower 

 (near SwalclifFe) and Shipton-on-Charwell respectively. 



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