DOMESDAY SURVEY 



Wessex and king. In Lincolnshire and Leicestershire also Earl Hugh 

 appears as the successor of Harold, whose Leicestershire estates of 

 Barrow upon Soar, Loughborough (probably), and Kegworth are connected 

 geographically with the manors of Kingston, Sutton Bonnington, and 

 Normanton, which he had held on the Nottinghamshire bank of the 

 Soar. With the exception of a one-bovate manor at Newthorpe in 

 Broxtow wapentake all the possessions of the count of Mortain lay in 

 the south-western corner of our county, and had belonged to an English- 

 man named ' Stori.' The name occurs several times elsewhere in the 

 Danelaw, but it is impossible to say whether it refers to the same man 

 in every case. 1 



Of much greater interest are the estates of the archbishop of York, 

 which occupy the next folio of the survey and still maintain their 

 individuality as the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby. It is important 

 to note that the collegiate church of Southwell, the one religious house 

 which our county possessed in Anglo-Saxon times, like its sister churches 

 of York (St. Peter's), Beverley, and Ripon, does not appear in the survey 

 as holding in chief of the crown. The intimate and historical connexion 

 which existed between the archbishop of York and his four great 

 ' colleges ' of secular canons caused the latter to be represented as holding 

 of him, and the lands appropriated to them to be entered among his 

 estates. First among the latter stands the great manor of Southwell 

 itself, the elaborate description of which deserves careful study. We are 

 first given the assessment of the whole manor with its berewicks, which 

 we have seen to be rated at 22 carucates and 24 plough-lands. Then 

 follows a description of that part of the manor which was in the hands 

 of the archbishop, after which we are told that six knights hold 4^ caru- 

 cates of this land, three clerks hold ij, of which 2 bovates are in a 

 prebend, and, a unique entry for our county, two Englishmen (Anglicf) 

 hold 3 carucates, 5 bovates. These three parcels of the manor are then 

 described one after the other and the total result deserves to be set out 

 in detail : 



Demesne Villein 

 Car. Bov. Teams Teams Sokemen Villeins Bordars 



Archbishop's land . (not stated) 10 37 10 75 23 



Knights' lands ..44 7 21 35 28 



Clerks' lands ..14 !? 3 7 5 



Englishmen's land 3 5 4 6 20 6 



Lastly we have an account of the appurtenances of the manor in meadows 

 and woodlands, together with a very unusual entry of ' arable land, 

 5 leagues in length and 3 in breadth.' Domesday so rarely expresses 

 arable land in terms of lineal measure that we ought to work out the 

 relation which these figures bear to the number of plough-lands recorded 

 for the whole manor, though, if we are wise, we shall not hope for any 

 very intelligible result, especially in view of the possibility that the 

 Nottinghamshire plough-land was, after all, a conventional quantity. As 



1 See V. C. H. Bedfordshire, i, 203 ; V. C. H. Derbyshire, \, 304. 

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