DOMESDAY SURVEY 



royal demesne in the Peak of Derbyshire on the same terms, as also 

 Awsworth and Eastwood (Notts.), while we have seen that when he 

 appears in 1068 in connexion with Nottingham Castle it is merely as 

 the king's representative. It was Henry I who gave him definite 

 possession of his lands in the Peak with which he richly endowed Lenton 

 Priory, bestowing on it also besides Lenton itself the adjoining vills of 

 Radford, Morton, and Kighton, 1 with his portion of Newthorpe and 

 Papplewick and Courteenhall in mid-Northamptonshire. His under- 

 tenants followed their lord's example, and among the list of donors given 

 in William's foundation charter 2 we may notice several names which occur 

 in the Nottingham survey. Thus the Saped who gave two-thirds of his 

 demesne tithes in Empingham (Rutland) and Baseford may be identified 

 with the Saped. who appears as William's tenant in the latter vills, and 

 the ' Pagan ' who was Saped's co-tenant at Baseford must have been the 

 father of ' Robertus filius Pagani,' who also gave tithes there to Lenton. 

 A ' Goscelinus ' made a similar grant at Watnall to the priory, and we 

 may recognize him in the Gozelinus who with Grinchel, an Englishman, 

 held Watnall of William in Domesday. In the ' Thonethona ' of the 

 charter, strange as is the form of the name, we have the modern Toton 

 (near Long Eaton), and we discover the son of another Domesday tenant 

 in Robert the son of Warner, who made a grant of tithes there. Whether 

 the Domesday Warner, his father, was identical with the tenant of that 

 name at Wollaton and Codnor and Shirland, Derbyshire, must be un- 

 certain, but the name is not very common. 8 Ambrose, who held under 

 William in Strelley and Bilborough, has been identified in several other 

 counties, notably Northamptonshire, as a Peverel under-tenant. 



But William Peverel's estate in this county is also noteworthy for the 

 number of Englishmen who held of him in 1086. Their holdings may 

 most conveniently be expressed in tabular form : 



Name Held T. R. W. in : Held T. R. E. in : 



'UnloP . . . Lenton . . . Lenton 



Godwin the Priest . Strelley . . . Adbolton 



. ., . f Greasley 



Ailnc . . . i r> i 



(isnnsley 



ir> j i-rr T fCostock 



1-, , . [ Radclifie on Trent . 



Jbredgis. . . . IT-V,, ( Rempston 



(Tithby . . . I u j i-ff T 



^Radclifte on Trent 



Ulviet .... Radcliffe on Trent 



/'Watnall \ 

 Grinchitel 4 Newthorpe > . . Watnall 



(Kimberley ) 



1 Already in Thoroton's time the two latter places were absorbed in Lenton. 



* Man. Angl. v, ill. 



3 The tithes of Stapleford were given to the priory by Geoffrey (de) Heriz, the founder of a branch 

 of this family which, according to the Newstead Register, died out early in the male line. The Domes- 

 day under-tenant is given as Robert, who may have been Robert de Heriz, the head of the main line 

 of the family. Tithes in Gonalston were given by ' Erbertus,' whom we may probably identify with 

 the ' Herbert Peverel ' of a Lenton charter given in Round, Cat. Doc. France, 506, and with the Herbert 

 styled by Wm. Peverel miles metis, who gave to the priory one of the four mills of Lenton. The 

 tenant of Gonalston is not given in Domesday. 



