THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SURVEY In EvERDON the monks of Bernay 2^ hides and 2 small virgates.' There also Hugh the sheriff 8 small virgates which the monks of Daventre hold. There also Ralf de Waun- deville 4 small virgates.* There also Walter 4 small virgates. In Snokescombe [Snoscombe] 4 small vir- gates of the fee of the earl of Leicester.' In Stowe John de Armenteres 4 hides of the fee of Gilbert de Gaunt.* HUNDRED OF AYLWOLDESLE In Baddeby [Badby]^ and Newenham [Newnham] the abbot of Evesham 4 hides. In Norton 2^ hides and 2 small virgates of the fee of Warewyk.^ In Thorp(e) Stephen de Turs' half a hide. There also William de Neufmarchd {novo foro) 4 small virgates.' In Beruby [Barby] 2 hides of the fee of Will lam reverei
- This holding does not seem to be recog-
nisable in Domesday. Henry II., early in his reign, confirmed to the monks of Bernay [Eure] ' Ebredona ' among the lands given them in England {Calendar of Documents pre- served in France, p. 13 7).
- These reappear in the Testa Sunxy as
' 4 virgates which Geoffrey de Waundeville holds of the fee of Albemarle.' They are also found [Testa, p. 27) as held of the Belvoir fief. ' Domesday assigns to the count of Mor- tain 2 virgates there.
- Held in demesne by Gilbert de Gand in
1086. ^ On the 4 hides at Badby assigned by Domesday to Crowland, see the Introduction to Domesday (p. 285). ^ Norton (by Daventry) was held, in 1086, by the count of Meulan, brother of the first earl of Warwick, as 2^ hides and ^ hide. ' He was seneschal of Anjou under Henry II. As he was an under-tenant of Robert de Chocques in 11 66, this was doubtless the 'half hide and fifth part of half a hide' held by Gunfrei de 'Cioches' there in 1086.
- Held of Hugh de Grentmesnil by
' Osbern,' as ' four-fifths of half a hide ' in 1086. In the Testa Survey this holding is entered as '4 virgates ' of the earl of Leices- ter's. So also in Domesday. In Gildesboru [Guilsborough] the bishop of Lincoln in demesne, 2 hides."* In Stav[er]ton William de Neufmarch^, (novo foro) I hide of the fee of the earl of Leicester.*' There also Stephen de Welton 3 hides of the fee of Roger de Moubray.** In Braundeston [Braunston] William Trussebot 3 hides and 6 small virgates of the fee of Payn Peverel.*' There also the earl of Leicester 4 small virgates.** In Daventre Walter Fitz Robert 8 hides of the fee of the king of Scotland.** In Welton William 2^ hides and 2 small virgates of the fee of the earl of Leicester.*^ There also Hugh the sheriff 5^ small virgates of the fee of Berkamstede. The monks of Daventre hold (them). There also Richard Maulore 2 small virgates. In Esseby [Ashby St. Legers] 4 hides of the fee of the earl of Leicester." In Dodeford Ralf de Chanes 3 hides.**
- " This is not recognisable in Domesday.
- Held of Hugh de Grentmesnil by ' Os-
bern ' in Domesday.
- Held of the count of Mortain by ' Alan *
in 1086. These are described in the Testa Survey as 'of the fee of Stuteville,' but the Stutevilles were great under-tenants of the Mowbrays.
- ' Held by Walter de Aincurt as 3^ hides
in 1086. In the later Survey, found in the Testa (p. 36), Robert de Ros (Trussebot's heir) is ' dominus ville,' but it is 'of the fee of John de Eyncurt.'
- Held of the bishop of Bayeux's fee by
William Peverel in 1086. '* The Countess Judith's in 1086.
- ® This was clearly the ' 3 hides less a
virgate' held here, in 1086, of Hugh de Grentmesnil by ' Osbern ' ; and as the suc- cessor of this Osbern in his two other under- tenancies was William de Neufmarch^, this was doubtless the name of the above ' William.'
- ' Hugh de Grentmesnil's in 1086.
'* Held of the count of Mortain by Wil- liam (de Cahagnes) in 1086. The later Survey in the Testa (p. 36) proves that the overlordship had passed from the Count to the earl of Leicester, for it speaks of the vill as ' de feodo Leyc.,' though William de ' Kaynes ' was its lord. 371
