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merely due to caprice. For instance, at Woughton-on-the-Green, after 

 the words, ' Hoc manerium tenuerunt viii teigni,' we have full details 

 of their holdings and their seven different lords ; at Moulsoe, after the 

 same words, the names and holdings of the eight Englishmen are given 

 in full ; but at Chicheley, where ' nine thegns ' had held a manor of 3! 

 hides, we are given no information at all as to their names or holdings. 

 The most important entry of the kind is one that is mentioned by 

 Professor Maitland, 1 where (at Lavendon) we read : 



Hoc manerium tenuerunt viii teigni, et unus eorum, Alii homo regis Edwardi, 

 senior aliorum fuit. 



This is supposed to imply that ' Alii ' represented the whole group in 

 the eyes of the Crown. 



' Inland,' that is the portion of a manor which was exempt from 

 ' geld,' is scarcely mentioned in this county. Indeed, its name is not 

 found, but the five ' carucatae terra ' at Hanslope in demesne, over and 

 above its 5 hides, were undoubtedly ' inland ' ; and so, perhaps, were 

 the four ' carucatas terras ' in demesne at Newport Pagnel, and the three 

 in demesne at Turweston. 



Of legal terms, as we might expect in the troublous age of the 

 Conquest, disseisin is not wanting ; at Bradwell, Ansculf, when sheriff, 

 had ' disseised ' the holder of 3 virgates ; at Drayton (Parslow) the 

 Bishop of Coutances had ' disseised ' Ralf ' Passaquam ' and given the 

 land to a follower of his own. Instances of exchange occur on the lands 

 of the Bishop of Coutances and of William Fitz Ansculf," and we also 

 read that Robert d'Ouilly had obtained Iver in exchange for Padbury. 

 A curious entry under Clifton (Reynes) charges the Norman under- 

 tenants with having taken possession of some land without the king's 

 knowledge. 3 The (mort)gage (vadium) of land occurs at Simpson. 



The names of classes in this county are those usually met with, 

 but there is mention at Caldecot of two vavassors, and at High Wy- 

 combe of four ' boors' (hurt], 



The last subject we have to consider is that of the Domesday 

 Hundreds, eighteen in number. These are now represented by six, 

 each of which comprises three of the old Hundreds. A table will make 

 the arrangement clear : 



'Stanes' "1, , r ' Coteslai ' } 



'Elesberie' Th f , th " e Hundreds f 'Erlai' Cottesloe Hundred 



'Riseberg' J A y lesbu T < Mursalai ' j 



Stoches ' 

 ' Burneham ' 

 ' Dustenberg ' 

 < Ticheshele ' 

 ' Essedene ' 

 ' Votesdone ' 



Stodfald ' 



The Chiltern Hundreds ' Rovelai ' [Buckingham Hundred 



Lamva ' J 

 < Sigelai ' 



, 



Ashendon Hundred 'Bonestou' j- Newport Hundred 



' Molesoveslau ' J 



1 Domesday Book and Beyond, p. 14.5. 



* See pp. 240, 241, 254, below. On the Bishop's exchange of Bleadon, Somerset, for lands in 

 Beds and Bucks, see Y. C. H. Beds i. 196. 



3 ' iii virgatas . . . habent occupatas et celatas super regem, ut homines de hundret dicunt.' 



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