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actually present at Burton, restored the manor to the church. But the 

 king's writ is appended in which the grant is made dc navo, without any 

 reference to Morcar's gift, and the abbey is to hold the manor ' as the 

 mother of Earl Morcar best held it.' 1 This must refer to the Countess 

 iElfgifu, the wife of Earl /Elfgar, and the statement that she had been 

 herself the former owner of ' Cotes ' is noteworthy, for although she figures 

 in a list of those who had exercised rights of sac and soc before the 

 Conquest, 8 she does not appear in the body of the Survey as having held 

 land in her own right in either of those counties. Of the other possessions 

 of the monastery Winshill, Stapenhill, and Appleby had been left to the 

 abbey in the will of its founder Wulfric ' Spot,' s together with many 

 other estates in the counties of Derby and Stafford which failed to reach 

 their destination. 



Highest in rank among the lay tenants-in-chief of Derbyshire was 

 Earl Hugh of Chester, who held Markeaton, and appears in the introduction 

 to the County Survey as exercising rights of sac and soc over that manor, 

 which had formerly belonged to Earl Siward of Northumbria. Belonging 

 to Markeaton were the three waste ' berewicks,' Kniveton, Mackworth, 

 and Allestree. The entry relating to these appendages displays one of 

 those strange inconsistencies which every now and then occur in Domesday. 

 They were assessed at four carucates, of which it is said, * one carucate 

 of these four belongs to Ednaston, a manor of Henry de Ferrers. 

 Gozelin holds it of the earl, and Colle renders IQJ. 8</. for it to Gozelin.' 

 Similarly, in the above-mentioned introduction, Henry de Ferrers is 

 entered as enjoying sac and soc over Ednaston, and yet this manor appears 

 on page 348 as belonging, not to him, but to Geoffrey Alselin, and as 

 having belonged to his regular predecessor, Tochi. As the statement that 

 Ednaston belonged to Henry de Ferrers occurs twice over in the Survey, 

 it cannot be explained away as a scribal error, and indeed remains inex- 

 plicable. In any case the conflict of rights between Earl Hugh, Gozelin, 

 Colle, and the owner of Ednaston must have been sufficiently complicated. 



By far the greatest landholder in Derbyshire was Henry de Ferrers, 

 the lord of Longueville in Normandy, whose son became in 1136 the 

 first Earl of Derby. Although he possessed in this county over ninety 

 manors, the head of his barony lay just outside the border of Derbyshire 

 at Tutbury,* where was his castle and where the priory which he founded 

 must have been already in being in 1086. The description of his estates 

 occupies more than five folios of Domesday Book, and their general distri- 

 bution will be gathered from the map. Vast as is their extent it will be 

 noticed that, with the exception of some ten manors to the south of the 

 Trent adjoining his Leicestershire property, they are almost confined to 

 the west of the Derwent. Moreover they are concentrated to a very 

 remarkable degree in the modern wapentake of Appletree, the whole of 



i Burtm Cbrtoitry (Coll. for Hist of Stafis. Salt Soc.), i. 



Fol. 8o-6, page 317 s Kemble, CtJtx Diph**tic*s, it 80. 



* King William had granted him Tutbnry and its castle which had previously been held by 

 Earl Hugh of Chester. Ordericus Vitalitis, Hut. EccL (Soc. de 1'hist. de France), ii. 221. 



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