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who had been under the commendation and soke of Wisgar in the time of 

 King Edward.*''^ 



WilHam de Warenne, a great landowner in Norfolk and in Sussex,'^' 

 takes a less prominent place in the Suffolk Domesday, where, however, the 

 same distinction is made as in the Norfolk Survey between the land which 

 he held of the fee of his brother Frederic and that which he had acquired by 

 * the Lewes exchange.''^* His Suffolk fief was composed of the lands of 

 English thegns and freemen, of whom one, the thegn Toka, was Frederic's 

 antecessor in both Norfolk and Suffolk. '^^ Among his under-tenants may be 

 noted Robert de Glanville and Robert and Godfrey de Petro-ponte, whose 

 name survives at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex. William de Warenne had also 

 succeeded to some of the estates of Edric of Laxfield and William Malet, 

 which were claimed by Robert Malet. '^* Suane of Essex, his father Robert, 

 and his grandmother Wimarc, belong to the history of Essex, where both 

 Robert and Suane held the office of sheriff. Nearly all Suane's Suffolk estates 

 had been held by his father. They were chiefly in the south of the county, 

 but he held a few acres in Thingoe Hundred. Of his father's forty-one 

 Ipswich burgesses fifteen were dead, and even over these Suane had lost the 

 commendation, though he retained the soke and sac.'" Eudo the Steward 

 {Dapifer), the son-in-law of Richard Fitz Gilbert, was a tenant-in-chief of 

 the Crown in the three eastern counties,'^* and in all three he succeeded Lisois 

 de Moustiers,'*" whom we find encroaching on the rights of Ely Abbey at 

 Lakenheath and at Brandon. ''" He succeeded also Godwin, a thegn of 

 King Edward, Canut, Earl Algar's freeman, Edric of Laxfield and William 

 Malet, and Aluric Campa, who was the antecessor of Eudo in Essex and 

 Cambridgeshire as well as in Suffolk.''^ The brothers Roger and William of 

 Otburville, or Oburville, held composite fiefs built up from the estates of 

 thegns, sokemen, and freemen.''^ One of Roger's predecessors, the thegn 

 Gutmund, brother of Uluric or Wulfric, Abbot of Ely, was also the antecessor 

 of a more important Suffolk landowner, Hugh de Montfort, who succeeded 

 him at Nacton, Livermere, Occold, Dagworth, and in the manor of Haughley 

 (Haga/a),^^^ the caput oi the later honour of Haganet or Haughley, the Honor 

 Constabularie. This honour was connected with the constableship of Dover 

 Castle, where in the attack of 1067 Hugh de Montfort was in command. 

 The office passed to Robert de Vere, the son-in-law of Hugh de Montfort, 

 and then to Henry of Essex, son of Suane of Essex and grandson of Robert 

 Fitz Wimarc.''* Hugh de Montfort's chief under-tenant was Roger de 

 Candos ; Burchard, Gurth, ' Edith the rich,' Edric of Laxfield, and WiUiam 

 Malet are mentioned among the former lords of the numerous freemen who 



'" Dom. Bk. 395^ et seq. »" Ibid. 398 et seq.; cf. V.C.H. Norf. ii ; l^.C.H. Suss. i. 



"« Dora. Bk. 398, 398^ ; above, pp. 381-2. '" Ibid. 399, 399^, 400 ; r.C.H. Norf. ii, 18. 



'" Dom. Bk. 399^. 



'" Ibid. 401 etseq.; V.C.H. Essex,\, 345 ; Viom^, Feud. Engl. 168; Freeman, A^om. Cw^^. iv (isted.), 736. 



"' Dom. Bk. 402* et seq.; F.C.H. Essex, i, 347-8 ; V.C.H. Norf. ii, 20. 



'" Round, Feud. Engl. 460 ; Freeman, Norm. Conq. iv (ist ed.), 286 ; v (ist ed.), 30. Lisois was 'the 

 hero of the passage of the Aire.' He had lands in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, where he was also 

 succeeded by Eudo ' Dapifer.' 



"" Dom. Bk. 403 ; Inq. El. (Rec. Com.), 517^ ; Round, op. cit. 32. 



"' Dom. Bk. 402*, 403, 403* ; V.C.H. Essex, i, i$i. "* Dom. Bk. 403^ et seq. 



"' Ibid. 4053 et seq.; V.C.H. Essex, i, 346 ; V.C.H. Norf ii, 20. 



'" Round, Commune of Land. 278-82 ; Geoffrey de Mandeville, 326-7, 388-96 ; Freeman, Norm. Conq. 

 iv (2nd ed.), 73, 114-16 ; cf. Dom. Bk. 301^, where 'W. Cunestabla ' is mentioned. 



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