A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



and I virgate of the ree of Brunne 

 [Bourne]. There also Robert son of Edelin* 

 (' Edeline ') i hide and i virgate of the fee or 

 Clare.' 



In ToRPE [Thorpe Waterville] and 

 AcHiRCHE [(Thorp-)Achurch] Ascelin de 

 Waterville 6 hides and a half of the fee of 

 (Peter)borough.* 



In Clopton [Clapton] Walter ' i hide 

 and I virgate of the King's fee. There also 

 3 hides and a half of the fee of (Peter)borough.* 

 There also Ascelin half a hide of the fee of 

 (Peter)borough.* 



Wadenhowe [Wadenhoe]. Aubrey ('Al- 

 bricus') de Ver 2 hides and i virgate of 

 the fee of king David. There also 



Wymunt de Stok(e) I virgate of the fee of 

 (Peter)borough. There also Roger Infans 2 

 small virgates of the same fee. There also 

 Vivien (' Wivienus ') de Chirchefelde half a 

 hide of the same fee.^ There also Geoffrey 

 de Gunthorp 2 hides of the same fee.'' 



* His father Odelin had held 3 virgates 

 here of the bishop of Coutances in 1086. 

 The son was a tenant of the Clares, which 

 proves that the land had been given them by 

 ihe Crown after the fief had escheated. 



It is interesting to note that he witnesses a 

 charter (relating to LufFwick) of Adeliza 

 wife of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare (son 

 of the Domesday tenant-in-chief) as a tenant 

 of the ' Honour ' of the said Gilbert {Mon. 

 Ang.^ II. 601). 



* The two together had been held of the 

 Abbey by * Azelin ' in 1086. 



^ Said to have been Walter de ' Graunt- 

 kort ' (Bridges), but styled Walter ' de 

 Clopton ' under Polebrook below. 



■* As observed above (p. 362), the first 

 of these holdings had been held in 1086 by 

 Eustace the sheriflF, in capite, while the second 

 was held by him (as 3f^ hides) under the 

 abbot of Peterborough. 



* Held of the Abbey by 'iElmar' in 1086. 

 ^ This must be the half hide 'in Circafeld' 



(Churchfield in Oundle) which Abbot Turold 

 is recorded to have given to Vivian {Chronicon 

 Petrohurgense, p. 175). 



' These Wadenhoe entries are very diffi- 

 cult to explain. With the exception of a vir- 

 gate and a half held by ' Roger ' of the abbot 

 of Peterborough, Domesday assigns all 

 Wadenhoe to the bishop of Coutances, 

 whose holdings there, of 2f hides and 2^ 



In Catteworthe i hide and a half of the 

 fee of (Peter)borough.* 



POKEBROC 



In PoKEBROC [Polebrook] Robert de Cauz i 

 hide and i virgate of the King's fee.* There 

 also Walter de Clopton 2 hides and a half 

 of the fee of (Peter)borough.*'' There also 

 Roger Marmium i hide and i virgate of the 

 same fee.'" 



In Armeston [Armston] . . . " de 

 Burgelay 2 hides and a half of the same fee.'* 

 There also Turkil i hide of the same fee.'* 

 There also Guy (' Wydo ') Maufee i hide of 

 the same fee.'* There also Geoffrey de Gun- 

 thorp two-thirds of half a hide of the same 

 fee.'* There also Tedrick, three-quarters of 

 half a hide of the same fee.'* 



In Pappele [Papley] i hide. 



hides respectively were both held of him by 

 ' Albericus.' This last holding must have 

 been added, after coming into the hands of 

 the Crown, to the fief of king David, of 

 whom it was held by Aubrey de Vere, name- 

 sake and heir of the Domesday under-tenant. 

 I have suggested above (p. 362) that the other 

 holding was really at Wold, and was ob- 

 tained by Aubrey's heir to hold in chief. 

 It is of interest to observe that the Aubrey 

 de Vere of 1086 held Kensington also as 

 an under-tenant of the bishop, though he is 

 there entered as if a tenant-in-chief. 



It seems clear also that the Abbey's 'virgate 

 and a half are represented above by the hold- 

 ings of Wymunt de Stoke and Roger Infans. 

 Consequently the remaining Domesday holding 

 (2f hides), if not Wold, must have passed 

 from the bishop of Coutances to the Abbey, 

 under whom it was held, as above, by Geoffrey 

 de Gunthorpe and Vivian de Churchfield. 



* Held of the Abbey by Eustace (the 

 sheriff) in 1086. 



* This had been held by Eustace (the 

 sheriff) in 1086. 



'" These two holdings represent the 3I 

 hides held there of the Abbey by the same 

 Eustace in 1086 (see p. 362 above). 



" 'Armeston de Burgelay' in MS. 



'* Domesday only states that the 5 hides at 

 Armston and Kingsthorpe were held of the 

 Abbey by 5 knights. Here we have details 

 of the five holdings, which amount, however, 

 to 5^*^ hides for Armston alone. 



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