A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Robert de Aluers, i house, rendering {de) 12 pence. 



Roger de Boscnorman, i house, rendering {de) 16 pence, 



Geoffrey de Wirce, 4 houses, rendering {de) 4 shillings. 



Geoffrey Alselin and his nephew Ralph, 2 houses, rendering {de) 2 

 shillings. 



Gilo, the brother of Ansculf, 3 houses, rendering {de) 32 pence. 



Gunfrid de Cioches, i house, rendering {de) 8 shillings. Three 

 are waste. 



Suain, the son of Azur,* 21 houses, rendering {de) 10 shillings, per- 

 taining to Stoches (Stoke Bruern). 



Ansfrid de Valbadon, 2 houses, rendering {de) 2 shillings, of the fee 

 of the bishop of Bayeux. 



Baldwin, the moiety of a waste dwelling {mansio). Lefstan, i house, 

 rendering {de) 4 pence. 



Osbern Gifard, i house, rendering {de) 4 pence. Godwin the 

 priest, I house, rendering {de) i 2 pence. 



Durand the reeve, i house, rendering {de) 16 pence, of the fee of 

 Robert Todeni. 



Dodin, 2 houses, rendering {de) 20 pence. One is (held) of the 

 Countess Judith, the other of Winemar. 



Hugh de Widville* 2 houses, rendering {de) 32 pence. 



NoRTHANTONESCiRE renders 3 nights ferm {Jirmam) ' (that is) 30 

 pounds by weight. For dogs, 40 assayed {blancas) pounds of 20 (pence) 

 to the ounce. For a gift to the queen, and for hay, 10 pounds and 5 

 (ounces of silver).* For a hawk, 10 pounds. For a sumpter horse, 20 

 shillings. For alms, 20 shillings. For the huntsman's horse, 20 

 shillings. For queen Edith's manors, 40 pounds. For Clive [King's 

 Cliff], 10 pounds. 



The burgesses of Hantone (Northampton) render to the sheriff 

 yearly 30 pounds and 10 shillings. This belongs to his ferm {Jirmam)!' 



The Countess Judith has 7 pounds of the issues of the same 

 borough. 



* This can hardly be other than the ' Swegen filius Azor,' who is among the tenants 

 of the see of Worcester called upon to pay relief nine years later (1095). See Feudal 

 England^ p. 309. 



* It was of this family, which is found at Grafton 120 years later, that sprang the queen 

 of Edward IV. Hugh also held, as ' Hugo de Witvile,' 5 houses in Leicester of Hugo de 

 Grentmesnil. 



* Originally provision for the King and his household in kind. 



* Comparison with the Wiltshire payment on fo. 64b shows that the Queen's share of 

 this was five pounds. 



* i.e. to the sum for which he is liable to the king as sheriff. 



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