A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



Godwin the priest i bovate of land similarly. 



At the feast of St. Martin the burgesses render to the king 1 2 thraves 

 (trabes) of corn (annona) of which the abbot of Bertone [Burton] has 40 

 sheaves (garbce). 



There are in addition (adhuc] in the same borough 8 messuages with 

 sac and soc. These belonged to JElgar ; now they are the king's. 



The king's two pennies and the earl's third which come out of 

 Apletreu [Appletree] Wapentake in Derberie [Derbyshire] are in the 

 sheriff's hand or rent 1 (censu) by the witness of the two shire (-courts). 2 



Of Stori, 3 Walter de Aincurt's predecessor (anfecessor), it is said that 

 without any one's leave he could make for himself a church on his own 

 land and in his own soc and could assign (mlttere] his own tithes (decima) 

 where he wished. 



In Snotingehamscyre and in Derbiscyre if the king's peace, given 

 under his hand or seal, be broken, a fine is paid (emendatur) by 18 hun- 

 dreds. Each hundred (pays) 8 pounds. The king has 2 parts of this 

 fine (emendationis), the earl the third. That is, 12 hundreds pay to the 

 king and 6 to the earl. 



If any one be exiled according to law for any crime, none but the 

 king can restore peace to him. 



A thegn having more than 6 manors does not give relief of his 

 land except 8 pounds to the king alone. If he has only 6 or less he 

 gives 3 marks of silver to the sheriff as relief wherever he dwells in the 

 borough or without. If a thegn having sac and soc forfeit his land, the 

 king and earl have half his land and money between them, and his lawful 

 wife with his legitimate heirs, if there be any, have the other half. 



Here are noted those who had soc and sac and thol and thaim and 

 the king's dues (consuetudinem) of the two pennies. 4 



The Archbishop of York over his manors, and the Countess Godeva 

 over Newerca [Newark, Notts] Wapentake and Ulf fenisc over his land ; 

 the Abbot of (Peter) Borough over Colingeham [Collingham, Notts] ; 

 the Abbot of Bertune [Burton, Notts] ; Earl Hugh (of Chester) over 

 Marcheton [Markeaton, Derby] ; the Bishop of Cestre [Chester] ; Tochi ; 

 Suen the son of Suave ; Siward barn ; Azor the son of Saleva ; Ulfric 

 cilt ; Elsi ; Illinge ; Lewin the son of Alewin ; the Countess Alveva ; 

 the Countess Goda ; Elsi the son of Caschin over Werchesoppe 

 [Worksop, Notts] ; Henry de Ferrers over Ednodestune [Ednaston, 



1 The words ' vel censu ' are interlined. 



* The meaning of this entry is that the revenue from the pleas of the Wapentake (of which the 

 king was entitled to two-thirds and the earl to one-third) was ' farmed ' by the sheriff at a fixed rent 

 in 1086. 



The mention of ' the two counties ' should be observed as implying that the two county courts 

 sat together for the Domesday Inquest, which would account for the surveys of Nottingham and Derby 

 appearing together on this page (J. H. R.). 



3 No such name occurs among Walter de Aincurt's predecessors in Notts or Derby. In all but 

 one of his Derby manor* he was preceded by ' Suain cilt,' in I o out of his 1 7 Notts manors he was 

 preceded by Tori, in 4 other cases by Suain, and in I other instance Swain and Tori are given to- 

 gether as his predecessor. The latter may thus have held different parts of a divided inheritance, and 

 ' Stori ' might represent a mistaken fusion of their names. (See Introduction, p. 304). 



4 i.e., the two-thirds of certain profits, of which ' the third penny ' went to the earl. 



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