DOMESDAY SURVEY 



Domesday. In the case of Appleby, by combining the 5 carucates held 

 by Burton Abbey, in Derbyshire, with the 4 carucates held by the 

 ' countess ' Godeva in Leicestershire we obtain a ' duodecimal ' total of 

 9 carucates for the vill as a whole, and at Linton the 2 carucates with 

 which Henry de Ferrers is credited in the Derbyshire survey combine 

 in a similar way with the I carucate which is assigned to him under 

 Leicestershire. In addition to these cases, certain manors situated in 

 other counties had appendages in Derbyshire. The economic arrangement 

 of the manor sometimes overlapped the political division of the county. 

 Thus the king's great manor of Rocester, in Staffordshire, extended itself 

 across the Dove into Derbyshire. Of Wyaston and Edlaston we read : 



Hae ii ae villae sunt de firma R(egis) in Rouecestre praeter i bovatam qux 

 jacet in Osmundestune. 



The interest of this entry is twofold. In the first place we see the 

 farm of an important royal manor derived from estates situated in more 

 than one county ; and, secondly, this passage supplies an argument against 

 the universal autonomy of the Domesday ' manerium.' The symbol M is 

 duly applied to the entry of Wyaston and Edlaston, and l yet we find that 

 for one most important purpose these vills merely formed part of a larger 

 whole. It may be noted in passing that while Earl ^Elfgar is given as the 

 former possessor of Rocester, his son, Earl Edwin, is represented as having 

 been the owner of Wyaston and Edlaston. 



Another tangle of rights, occurring this time in the extreme south 

 of the county, is to be found at Chilcote, which is entered as a ' berewick' 

 among the lands dependent on the king's manor of Repton. Yet the 

 Survey goes on to mark 'H(aec) ad Cliftune pertinet in Stadford.' 

 Clifton Campville, in Staffordshire, is the next village to Chilcote, but it 

 is not easy to see in what sense Chilcote can have been dependent both on 

 Repton and on Clifton Campville. A converse case in which land outside 

 our county is assigned to a manor within it occurs in connexion with 

 Sandiacre. Land at Thrumpton, Notts, situated on the fief of Hugh de 

 Grentemaisnil, is stated to 'lie' in Sandiacre. 2 As no previous owner is 

 given in the Thrumpton entry, and as Hugh de Grentemaisnil held no 

 land in Derbyshire, it is difficult to account for the connexion with 

 Sandiacre, which, in 1086, was divided into three 'manors,' all entered 

 on the land of the king's thegns. We have seen that one of these manors 

 was held by a certain ' Toli,' who also held in Ilkeston land to which the 

 symbol ' M ' is applied. Yet at the end of this latter entry we read, 

 ' Haec terra pertinet ad Sandiacre.' Here, then, we not only find the 

 vague word ' terra ' applied to a recognized ' manerium,' but we have 

 another case in which one manor was dependent on another manor. 



Some of the most interesting entries in Domesday are those which 

 relate to the disputed possession of land. There is always the possibility 

 that these notices will contain some statement of the local customs 

 affecting the matter in dispute, and we may also expect to find the wit- 



1 Mr. Round observes that this passage does not stand alone. 

 8 ' In Sandiacre iacet,' fol. I gib. 



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