574 Trppenell Memoranda, 



Thus IJrse is firmly established both as under -tQna,nt, in Domesday, 

 of the abbot of Grlastonbury, and as ancestor of Eeynold fitz Urse. 

 So much for our certainty. Now for our inference. In Domesday 

 for Dorset we find " Land of Ernulfus de Hesding. Ernulfus holds 

 of the king Chintone . , . Urso holds of Ernulfus." Again 

 Urso holds of Ernulfus Melesberie." Further in the " Inquisitio 

 Gheldi," "G-elingeham . . . in this hundred . . . and of 

 three hides one virgate which Urso holds of Arnulf de Hesdinc the 

 King had not geld." Finally " Etheminstre. In this hundred 

 . . , and of the half hide which Urso holds of Arnulf Hesdinc 

 never had the King William geld." These entries bear witness to a 

 sufficiently intimate connection between Ernulf and Urse,in the ad- 

 joining county of Dorset, and, could we trace Urse's descendants at 

 Ohalfield — which, as we have already seen, was held in Domesday by 

 Ernulf himself — the inference we desire to draw, surely would be 

 notunfounded. This much, the i^ec^^oo/i; renders possible. TheCarta 

 of Reynold fitz Urse, in 1166, is entered undei- Northampton shire, 

 in which county, at Bulwick,!^ was his principal abode. It runs 

 " Reynold son of Urse has those knights enfeoffed of r,he time of 

 Henry the King grandfather of the lord the King, to wit: — 



"Walter de Haudelfeld (the Black Book reads " Chaudefeld,") 

 one knight." 



The rest of Reynold's Carta does not concern us, for our point 

 is as good as proved, namely, that at some period immediately 

 subsequent to the compilation of Domesday Arnulf de Hesding 

 made over to Urse,already intimately associated with him elsewhere 

 and already tenant of the abbot of Glastonbury for lands some 

 twelve miles to the north, at Kington and Grittleton, a moiety of 

 Chalfield, which appears subseqnently held by Urse's descendants 

 in capite of the king. 



^ In the description of Corby Hundred (in which Bui wick is situate) 

 given in the Certificatio Hundredorum in comitatu Northampt. in the 

 library of the See. of Antiquaries (Ellis' Gen. Introduct. to Domesday, 1., 

 p. 187) which Mr. J. H. Round ( Victoria County History, Northampton, 

 vol. i., pp. 258 et seq.) considers cannot be later than 1075, it is stated that 

 there are 5 hides (out of a total lof 47) " unwered," of which the Scottish 

 king owns 3, Thylsefeth 1^, and " Urs " i hides. 



