A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



In Graftone [Grafton Regis] the abbot of 

 Grestain {Grestenge) 4 hides [? ^ hide].' 



HUNDRED OF CLEYLE 



In Stok and in Aldrinton [Stoke Bruern 

 and Alderton] are 7 hides (and) 2 small vir- 

 gates.* 



In Bassenham [Passenham] i hide. 



In VVvcA Mainfein [Wyke Hamon] 2 

 hides of the fee of Wolfrington [VVolverton].^ 



In Pyria [Potterspury] Robert de Ferrar[iis] 

 3 hides (and) 2 small virgates of the fee of the 

 earl de Ferrar'.* 



In West Pyria [Paulerspury] are 3 hides 

 and a half and the fifth part of half a liidc of 

 the fee of William Peverel.* 



In FoRHOUE [Furtho] Walter 2 hides of 

 the fee of Richard Fitz William.'' There also 

 (are) 7 small virgates of the fee of Berkam- 

 stede.'' There also the earl of Leicester 3 

 small virgates.'' 



In Covesgrave [Cosgrove] Robert Ryvel 

 8 small virgates. There also William le Brun 

 6 small virgates. There also Adam 9 small 

 virgates.* 



hide and ^ hide, that is, exactly ' 6 small 

 virgates.' The Conqueror must have given 

 it to St. WandriUe, with the advowson of 

 Towcester. It was afterwards known as 

 Bradenstoke Priory Manor. The words ' ad 

 ecclesiam ' might possibly mean 'as belonging 

 to the church.' 



' Held by the count of Mortain as | hide 

 in 1086. His son William is said to have 

 given them to the Abbey. 



* Domesday assigns 4 hides to Stoke Bruern 

 and 3^ hides (the count of Mortain's) to 

 Alderton. 



' Domesday assigns only 3 virgates there 

 to Maino lord of Wolverton, and enters the 

 missing i]^ hides as Robert d'Ouilly's in 

 Wyke Dyve. 



* Held, as 3^ hides, by Henry de Ferrers 

 in Domesday. 



' Held, for exactly the same amount, of 

 William Peverel by 'Robert' in 1086. 



* Held of the count of Mortain by ' Ralf ' 

 in 1086. 



' These two holdings represent two hold- 

 ings there of the count of Mortain, each of 

 ■Y1S hide, in Domesday. But they only account 

 for I hide between them. 



* Cosgrove was similarly divided, in 1086, 



In Pyria [Potterspury] the heirs 'de 

 Safleto ' I hide (and) the fifth part of one 

 hide of the fee of king David." 



In PoKESLE Robert Ryvel 6 small virgates 

 of the fee of the earl of Leicester.'" There 

 also 4 small virgates of the fee of king 

 David." 



In EsTENESTON [Easton Neston] Richard 

 de Lc estre i hide (and) a half and i small 

 virgate of the fee of Berkamstede.'^ There 

 also Godfrey and Aldred 8 small virgates of 

 the fee of William Maudut.'^ 



In Som[er]eshale [Somersale] Michael 

 Mauntel 6 small virgates of the fee of William 

 Peverel of Hetham [Higham].'* 



In Wakefeld 4 small virgates of the King's 

 fee.'* 



In Hertwell [Hartwell] Nicholas, Hugh, 

 Adam, Ralph, 4 hides (and) a half and I 

 small virgate — that is [scilicet) the fifth part 

 of half a hide — of the fee of Walkelin Ma- 

 my(n)ot.'^ 



into 3 holdings of ^ hide, | hide, ^^ hide 

 respectively. But this Survey makes them all 

 rather larger. 



" Held of the Countess Judith by William 

 Peverel in 1086. 



'0 Probably the half hide held by the King 

 there in 1086. 



" William Peverel held -^ hide there of 

 the bishop of Bayeux in 1086. 



"* Held of the count of Mortain by Wil- 

 liam (de Cahagnes), as I hide and 2^ virgates, 

 in 1086. 



" This holding appears, from its size, to be 

 the 3^^ virgates there held by Bondi of Gun- 

 frei de Cioches in 1086. But as William 

 Mauduit was the successor of Winemar, it 

 must represent the 2^ virgates (6^ small vir- 

 gates) held of Winemar there by Maiulf in 

 1086. 



'* It appears to me that this may be the 

 ' half a hide and half a virgate ' held of 

 William Peverel by Turstin (Mantel) in 

 1086 as in 'another Courteenhall.' The 

 land was afterwards reckoned as in Roade. 



'* Count Alan's in Domesday. 



'^ This exact amount — 4^ hides and 'a 

 fifth of half a hide ' — was held in Domes- 

 day by William Peverel of the bishop of 

 Bayeux. It had now been added to the 

 Maminot portion of the bishop's fief. The 

 ' small virgate ' is explained, it will be seen, 

 by this entry. 



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