ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



Only one carucate and six bovates, included in St. Wilfrid's league, are 

 mentioned as held by the Ripon chapter/ The land of St. Peter comprised 

 about 270 carucates in the county,* and that of St. John of Beverley between 

 190 and 191 carucates.' The largest manor held by the canons of York 

 was North Newbald (28 carucates 2 bovates)." About 154 carucates, more 

 than a half of their property, lay waste, mostly within the district ravaged in 

 1069. About 60 carucates, held by Ulf before the Conquest, formed part of 

 his donation to St. Peter.'' Most of the property of the York chapter lay 

 in the vale of York and in Ryedale ; that of the Beverley canons lay in that part 

 of the wapentake of Harthill close to Beverley, and in Holderness.' The 

 carucate of St. John in Beverley was quit from geld.® T.R.E. it had yielded 

 £2^ to the archbishop and ^20 to the canons. Now it continued to 

 yield j^2o to the canons, but only >ri4 to the archbishop. About 45 caru- 

 cates of the canons' land lay waste. 



Seven manors, comprising 8 1 carucates, belonged to the Bishop of 

 Durham and St. Cuthbert before the Conquest." Nearly a half of this pro- 

 perty was waste. Two large manors in the East Riding, with some minor 

 property, were granted by William I to the bishop. King Edward's manor 

 of Howden, with eighteen berewicks, contained 5 1 carucates 6 bovates, and 

 had soke of 20 carucates 6 bovates. All the berewicks and part of the soke- 

 land lay waste. In Morcar's manor of Welton, with four berewicks, there 

 were 39 carucates, and 35 carucates 5 bovates in soke-land. Most of the 

 soke-land lay waste." The Yorkshire property of the bishop amounted to 

 243 carucates 5 bovates, of which not much less than half was uncultivated. 



The Abbot of St. Mary's appears in the list of tenants in chief ;^'' but no 



' Dom. Bk. fol. 303^, col. 2. 



* The actual number, mentioned as 'Terra Archiepiscopi,' is 236 carucates 4 bovates. Add to this 

 31^ carucates on fol. zgSa, col. 2 ; b, col. i. This makes a total of 268 carucates. 



' One hundred and ninety carucates 5 bovates. Of this, however, the archbishop held 70 carucates 

 after the Conquest, contained in 23 berewicks. See note 8. ^ Dom. Bk. fol. 302^, col. 2. 



'In the Nomina Villarum of 13 16 (Surtees Soc), p. 368, the following villae formed the liberty 

 of St. Peter : Cottam, Langtoft, Newbald, Barnby-on-the-Moor, Dunnington, in the East Riding ; 

 Osbaldwick, Strensall, Haxby, Stillington, Husthwaite, Carlton Husthwaite, Tollerton, Alne, in the 

 North Riding ; and Acomb in the Ainsty. It may be added that, in the same survey, the vtllae held by the 

 archbishop in the liberty of Ripon were these (ibid. 331) : Ripon, Littlethorpe, Bishop Thornton, Stainley, 

 Bishop Monkton, and Sharow ; the canons held Bridge Hewick and Skelton ; thirteen villae were held by 

 other proprietors. In the liberty of Beverley (ibid. 318), Beverley belonged to the archbishop, and ten 

 villae were held by lay tenants. 



' The entries relating to Beverley in Dom. Bk. occupy fol. 304(?, col. i & 2. The berewicks of the manor 

 of Beverley (col. 2) were twenty-five in number, three in Harthill, the rest in Holderness. Two in Harthill 

 were held by the canons ; the remaining twenty-three seem to have been the archbishop's. 



' Dom. Bk. fol. 304<7, col. i. Cf fol. z<^%b, col. 2, where the privileges of the chapter-lands are thus 

 mentioned : ' in omni terra S. Petri de Euruic et S. Johannis et S. Wilfridi et S. Cutberti et S. Trini- 

 tatis .... rex .... non habuit nee comes nee aliquis alius aliquam consuetudinem.' 



" Ibid. fol. 3043, col. 2. These lay in the North Riding, viz., in Howgrave and Hutton 

 Conyers with their soke, Crayke, Sessay with its soke, Knayton with one berewick, Brompton-in-Allertonshire, 

 Girsby, Deighton, and Winton (near Sigston). 



"Ibid. fol. 304^, col. I, 2. Morcar's manor of Lund also belonged to the Bishop of DurhaHi. In 

 these manors we have the nucleus of the important enclaves of the see of Durham in Allertonshire and How- 

 denshire. In 1 3 16 the villae held by the bishop were as follows \Nom. Vill, (Surtees Soc), 316, 340] : — In 

 the liberty of Howden : Howden, Kilpin with Thorpe and Belby, Skelton, Saltmarshe, Knedlington, Asselby, 

 Barmby Marsh, Eastrington, Newland and ' Grenhaik,' Riccall and Cliff, Hemingbrough and Brackenholme, a 

 moiety of South Duffield, Walkington with Risby, Welton, Brantingham, Ellerker, and Melton. In the 

 liberty of AUerton : Northallerton, Thornton-le-Beans, Romanby, Borrowby, Knayton with Brawith, Bromp- 

 ton, Osmotherley, and Sowerby-under-Cotcliffe. Twenty-six villae in Howdenshire and twenty-three in 

 Allertonshire were held of the bishop by various proprietors. 



" Dom. Bk. fol. 298^, col. 2. ' Abbatis de eboraco.' 



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