A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



In Norton [Green's Norton] and in (its) 

 soke 7 hides and i large virgate.' 



In Atteneston [Adston] Geoffrey de 

 Turviir 3 small virgates.^ There also the 

 monks of Bee 8 small virgates. 



HUNDRED OF TOUCESTR[E] 



In Gauton [Gayton] the advocate de 

 Bettune 4 hides.^ 



In Pateshill [PateshuU] Simon de Wahill 



7 hides.* There also William de Hocton' 



8 small virgates. There also ' earl Maurice ' 

 {Comes Mauriclm) of the fee of Botebot 2 small 

 virgates.* 



In FoxLEYA [Foxley] Simon de Wahill 4 

 4 small virgates.® There also {Comes Maur') 

 8 small virgates of the fee of Berkamstede.'' 

 There also the monks of Northampton 6 

 small virgates.* 



In HiNTON [Hinton in the Hedges] Elias 

 2 hides of the fee of Earl William.^ 



' So held by the King in 1086. See also 

 note under Blakesley above. 



^ This was probably the ' one virgate ' held 

 in almoin by Leofwine, the priest, in 1086. 

 Geoffrey de Turville must have held under 

 the earl of Leicester, to whom the Crown 

 had alienated the land. 



^ Held by Sigar de ' Cioches ' as 4^ hides 

 in 1086, though Domesday does not mention 

 the place. The seigneur of Bethune, ' advocate ' 

 of Arras, was here his heir. 



* Domesday assigns 8 hides there to the 

 lord of 'Wahill.' The above three entries 

 amount to 8 hides in all, but this may be only 

 a coincidence. 



' Baker appears to accept ' Earl Maurice,' 

 here and at Foxley, as a real person, but I 

 deem the name to be clearly a corruption of 

 Comes Maurit' (count of Mortain). ' Mauri- 

 tanium ' is the form under which Mortain 

 appears in the East Anglian Domesday. 



* It is possible that these 4 'small virgates' 

 with those under PateshuU above (p. 372) 

 were included in the Domesday total of 8 

 hides for the ' Wahill ' fee in PateshuU. 



' Held by Ralf of the count of Mortain as 

 ■^ hide in 1086. 



* St. Andrew's Priory manor. These 

 lands seem to have been part of the Wahill 

 fief in 1086, for they were given to the 

 monks by one of its tenants, temp. Hen. I. 



* Helyas de Hintone held 4 knights' fees 

 of Earl Geoffrey de Mandeville in ii66. 



In Wappenham Henry de Pinkeny 2 hides 

 of (his own) fee.*" 



In EvELEiA [Evenley] are 4 hides." 



In Grimescote [Grimscot] Aunsel 2 hides 

 and 4 small virgates of the fee of Roger de 

 Moubray.'^ There also the monks of Dones- 

 tabel' (Dunstable) 2 hides of the fee of 



Wahill." 



In PoTTON John de Daventre i hide (and) 

 a half (and) i small virgate. 



In TiFFELD William de Pery I hide (and) 

 a half (and) I small virgate of the fee of Earl 

 Hugh.'* There also Walter de Fortho I hide 

 (and) a half and 2 small virgates.** There 

 also William de Gaynes 7 small virgates.** 



In Wytlebyr' [Whittlebury] Richard 6 

 small virgates of the fee of Selveston [Silver- 

 stone]. 



In Toucestr' the earl of Arundel 7 hides 

 (and) 4 small virgates.*^ There also Wybert 

 atte church [ad ecclesiam) 6 small virgates of 

 the fee of St. Wandrille.'* 



' Ernald ' had held these 2 hides of Geoffrey 

 de Mandeville in 10S6. 



*« Ghilo (de Pinkeney)'s in 1086. 



** These 4 hides are assigned to the lord of 

 'Wahill' by Domesday. 



'^ Held of the count of Mortain in 1086, 

 by Alan, as 2^^ hides at Cold Higham. This 

 proves that a grant from the count's fief had 

 here been made to Roger (or his father Nigel). 



*' These are clearly the 2 hides held of the 

 lord of 'Wahill' in 1086 as 'ad ecclesiam 

 de Pascelle,' but in Cold Higham (to which 

 Grimscot adjoins). The monks of Dunstable 

 had obtained them by gift of Walter de 

 WahuU, who gave them ' all the land of 

 Grimscote of his fee,' with a moiety of Pates- 

 hill church. 



'* Here again Domesday assigns no such 

 holding in Tiffield to Earl Hugh (of Chester), 

 but the accuracy of this Survey is proved by 

 its totals amounting to exactly 4 hides. 



'* Held of the count of Mortain, as a hide 

 and a half and the fifth of a hide, by ' Ralf 

 in 1086. 



'* Held of the count of Mortain, as half a 

 hide and the fifth of a hide, by William (de 

 Cahagnes) in 1086. 



'■' Held by the King, as 7^ hides, in 1086. 



** This must be the holding of the soch- 

 man, entered in 1086 as having there half a 



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