LEICESTERSHIRE SURVEY 



fee. 180 Robert de Ferrers i carucate and 6 bo- 

 vates. 181 



In WYFORDEBIA [Wyfordby] 4 carucates and 

 a half belonging to (the honour of) Blyth (de 

 blida). 1 *' 2 Roger de Mowbray i carucate and a 

 half. 183 



In CHETELBY [Ab Kettleby] and HOLEWELL 

 [Holwell] 9 carucates belonging to the Basset 

 fee (de feodo Basset). m The bishop of Lincoln 



I carucate. 



185 



HUNDRED OF SCALFORD 



In the same vill King David 1 1 carucates and 

 a half. 188 Richard Basset half a carucate. 187 



In GOUTEBIA [Goad by Mar wood] Roger de 

 Mowbray 6 carucates. 188 



In KNIPTON the count of Mortain 8 carucates 

 and 6 bovates. 183 Also William de Albini 3 ca- 

 rucates and 2 bovates. 100 



HUNDRED OF WALTHAM ON THE WOLDS 



In the same vill the earl of Leicester 16 caru- 

 cates and a half. 191 Alan de Craon 2 carucates 

 and a half. 192 



In STONESBIA [Stonesby] the same Alan 8 ca- 

 rucates. 193 



50 The same amount is assigned by Domesday to 

 the Countess Judith in ' Ricoltorp,' and was held of 

 her by Hugh de Grentemaisnil, which accounts for its 

 appearance here as belonging to the Leicester fee. 



M Held of the king by Raven the ' Serjeant ' in 

 1086. 



~ ? Domesday assigns 5 T \ carucates here to Roger 

 de Busli. 



v Representing the I T \ carucates which Geoffrey 

 de Wirce held in 1086 as sokeland to Melton 

 Mowbray. 



181 In Domesday Robert de Buci is credited with 

 5 carucates in Holwell and 6 in Ab Kettleby. For 

 once the duodecimal character of an assessment is 

 better represented in Domesday than in the present 

 survey, for the addition of the bishop of Lincoln's 

 carucate in Holwell to the 5 which Robert de Buci 

 held would make the adjacent vills of Holwell and Ab 

 Kettleby answer to the geld for 6 carucates each. It 

 is therefore possible that the 9 carucates of the present 

 entry are due to a scribal error (ix for xi). 



185 As in Domesday. 



156 Domesday assigns 1 1 carucates here to the 

 Countess Judith. 



187 Held by Robert de Buci in 1086. 



188 Held by Geoffrey de Wirce in 1086. Domes- 

 day, however, also assigns 6 carucates in this vill to 

 Robert de Buci, which seem to be unrepresented in 

 the present survey. 



169 The king's in Domesday. 



190 Held by Robert de Todeni in 1086.- 



191 Held by Hugh de Grentemaisnil in 1086. 



194 Guy de Craon's in Domesday. 193 Also Guy's. 



In CAST-ON [Coston] Robert de Ferrers 9 

 carucates. 194 



HUNDRED OF BARKESTONE 



In the same vill m William de Albini 23 ca- 

 rucates. G[eonrey] 186a (<G' } ? Galfridui) the 

 chamberlain I carucate. 



In SALTEBIA [Saltby] and BERTHALDEBIA 

 [Bescaby] 20 carucates 196 belonging to the fee of 

 Peverel. 197 



In GARTHORP [Garthorpe] William Meschin 198 

 8 carucates. 199 



HUNDRED OF SPROXTON 



In the same vill King David 8 carucates. 200 

 Alan de Craon 2 carucates. 201 In the same place 

 Gilbert's son 2 carucates. 202 



31 Held by Henry de Ferrers in 1086. 



135 The only entry in Domesday relating to this vill 

 assigns 15 carucates there to Robert de Todeni in 

 demesne. 



195:1 Probably Geoffrey de Clinton, who was cham- 

 berlain, and held in Leicestershire. 



56 These figures present great difficulty. Domesday 

 assigns 2 hides 3 carucates in Saltby to Roger de 

 Busli, a figure which probably represents a sum of 

 39 carucates. From the foundation charter of Blyth 

 Priory it appears that Roger held land in Bescaby and 

 Garthorpe (Harl. MSS. 3759, fol. 103), the assess- 

 ments of which are probably included in the 39 caru- 

 cates given for Saltby. On the other hand, the 

 Croxton Cartulary (Belvoir MSS. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. 

 iv, 176) assigns an assessment of 4 carucates to Saltby 

 and 2 carucates to Bescaby. These last figures can 

 hardly mean anything else than that these vills, from 

 whatever reason, secured a reduction of 60 per cent, on 

 their assessments subsequently to the date of the present 

 survey. With regard to the discrepancy between the 

 present assessment and that recorded in Domesday the 

 uncertainty as to the exact meaning of the Leicester 

 hide must be remembered. If the equation I hide 

 = 14^ carucates which Domesday records under 

 Melton Mowbray were intended to apply to the 

 whole of Framland wapentake, the Domesday total 

 for Saltby, Garthorpe, and Bescaby would stand at 

 32 carucates, as against the 28 carucates assigned to 

 these vills here. 



197 The honour of Blyth had come into the king's 

 hands upon the forfeiture of Robert de Belesme in 

 1 1 02. William Peverel the elder had received large 

 grants of land in Derbyshire somewhere about this 

 date, and the grant of Saltby may have been made at 

 the same time. 



198 William Meschin, the younger brother of Ran- 

 dulf, earl of Chester, had received land in the neigh- 

 bouring vill of Sewstern. 



199 See note 196. 



m Held by the Countess Judith in 1086. 

 101 Domesday assigns 3 carucates here to Guy de 

 Craon. 



202 Held by Godfrey de Cambray in 1086. 



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