A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
and I virgate of the ree of Brunne [Bourne]. There also Robert son of Edelin' ('Edeline') i hide and i virgate of the fee or Clare.[1]
In Torpe [Thorpe Waterville] and Achirche [(Thorp-)Achurch] Ascelin de Waterville 6 hides and a half of the fee of (Peter)borough.[2]
In Clopton [Clapton] Walter ' i hide and I virgate of the King's fee. There also 3 hides and a half of the fee of (Peter)borough.* There also Ascelin half a hide of the fee of (Peter)borough.*
Wadenhowe [Wadenhoe]. Aubrey ('Al- bricus') de Ver 2 hides and i virgate of the fee of king David. There also Wymunt de Stok(e) I virgate of the fee of (Peter)borough. There also Roger Infans 2 small virgates of the same fee. There also Vivien (' Wivienus ') de Chirchefelde half a hide of the same fee.^ There also Geoffrey de Gunthorp 2 hides of the same fee.[3]
^ Said to have been Walter de ' Graunt-
kort ' (Bridges), but styled Walter ' de
Clopton ' under Polebrook below.
■* As observed above (p. 362), the first
of these holdings had been held in 1086 by
Eustace the sheriflF, in capite, while the second
was held by him (as 3f^ hides) under the
abbot of Peterborough.
- Held of the Abbey by 'iElmar' in 1086.
^ This must be the half hide 'in Circafeld' (Churchfield in Oundle) which Abbot Turold is recorded to have given to Vivian {Chronicon Petrohurgense, p. 175).
In Catteworthe i hide and a half of the
fee of (Peter)borough.*
POKEBROC
In PoKEBROC [Polebrook] Robert de Cauz i hide and i virgate of the King's fee.* There also Walter de Clopton 2 hides and a half of the fee of (Peter)borough.* There also Roger Marmium i hide and i virgate of the same fee.
In Armeston [Armston] . . . " de Burgelay 2 hides and a half of the same fee.'* There also Turkil i hide of the same fee.'* There also Guy (' Wydo ') Maufee i hide of the same fee.'* There also Geoffrey de Gun- thorp two-thirds of half a hide of the same fee.'* There also Tedrick, three-quarters of half a hide of the same fee.'* In Pappele [Papley] i hide.
- Held of the Abbey by Eustace (the
sheriff) in 1086.
- This had been held by Eustace (the
sheriff) in 1086. '" These two holdings represent the 3I hides held there of the Abbey by the same Eustace in 1086 (see p. 362 above). " 'Armeston de Burgelay' in MS. '* Domesday only states that the 5 hides at Armston and Kingsthorpe were held of the Abbey by 5 knights. Here we have details of the five holdings, which amount, however,
to 5^*^ hides for Armston alone.
- ↑ His father Odelin had held 3 virgates here of the bishop of Coutances in 1086. The son was a tenant of the Clares, which proves that the land had been given them by the Crown after the fief had escheated. It is interesting to note that he witnesses a charter (relating to LufFwick) of Adeliza wife of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare (son of the Domesday tenant-in-chief) as a tenant of the 'Honour' of the said Gilbert (Mon. Ang., II. 601).
- ↑ The two together had been held of the Abbey by 'Azelin' in 1086.
- ↑ These Wadenhoe entries are very difficult to explain. With the exception of a virgate and a half held by 'Roger' of the abbot of Peterborough, Domesday assigns all Wadenhoe to the bishop of Coutances, whose holdings there, of 2⅝ hides and 2⅛ hides respectively were both held of him by 'Albericus.' This last holding must have been added, after coming into the hands of the Crown, to the fief of king David, of whom it was held by Aubrey de Vere, name-sake and heir of the Domesday under-tenant. I have suggested above (p. 362) that the other holding was really at Wold, and was obtained by Aubrey's heir to hold in chief. It is of interest to observe that the Aubrey de Vere of 1086 held Kensington also as an under-tenant of the bishop, though he is there entered as if a tenant-in-chief. It seems clear also that the Abbey's 'virgate and a half' are represented above by the holdings of Wymunt de Stoke and Roger Infans. Consequently the remaining Domesday holding (2⅝ hides), if not Wold, must have passed from the bishop of Coutances to the Abbey, under whom it was held, as above, by Geoffrey de Gunthorpe and Vivian de Churchfield.
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