A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE In Graftone [Grafton Regis] the abbot of Grestain {Grestenge) 4 hides [? ^ hide].' HUNDRED OF CLEYLE In Stok and in Aldrinton [Stoke Bruern and Alderton] are 7 hides (and) 2 small vir- gates.* In Bassenham [Passenham] i hide. In VVvcA Mainfein [Wyke Hamon] 2 hides of the fee of Wolfrington [VVolverton].^ In Pyria [Potterspury] Robert de Ferrar[iis] 3 hides (and) 2 small virgates of the fee of the earl de Ferrar'.* In West Pyria [Paulerspury] are 3 hides and a half and the fifth part of half a liidc of the fee of William Peverel.* In FoRHOUE [Furtho] Walter 2 hides of the fee of Richard Fitz William. There also (are) 7 small virgates of the fee of Berkam- stede. There also the earl of Leicester 3 small virgates. In Covesgrave [Cosgrove] Robert Ryvel 8 small virgates. There also William le Brun 6 small virgates. There also Adam 9 small virgates.* hide and ^ hide, that is, exactly ' 6 small virgates.' The Conqueror must have given it to St. WandriUe, with the advowson of Towcester. It was afterwards known as Bradenstoke Priory Manor. The words ' ad ecclesiam ' might possibly mean 'as belonging to the church.' ' Held by the count of Mortain as | hide in 1086. His son William is said to have given them to the Abbey.
- Domesday assigns 4 hides to Stoke Bruern
and 3^ hides (the count of Mortain's) to Alderton. ' Domesday assigns only 3 virgates there to Maino lord of Wolverton, and enters the missing i]^ hides as Robert d'Ouilly's in Wyke Dyve.
- Held, as 3^ hides, by Henry de Ferrers
in Domesday. ' Held, for exactly the same amount, of William Peverel by 'Robert' in 1086.
- Held of the count of Mortain by ' Ralf '
in 1086. ' These two holdings represent two hold- ings there of the count of Mortain, each of ■Y1S hide, in Domesday. But they only account for I hide between them.
- Cosgrove was similarly divided, in 1086,
In Pyria [Potterspury] the heirs 'de Safleto ' I hide (and) the fifth part of one hide of the fee of king David." In PoKESLE Robert Ryvel 6 small virgates of the fee of the earl of Leicester.'" There also 4 small virgates of the fee of king David." In EsTENESTON [Easton Neston] Richard de Lc estre i hide (and) a half and i small virgate of the fee of Berkamstede.'^ There also Godfrey and Aldred 8 small virgates of the fee of William Maudut.'^ In Som[er]eshale [Somersale] Michael Mauntel 6 small virgates of the fee of William Peverel of Hetham [Higham].'* In Wakefeld 4 small virgates of the King's fee.'* In Hertwell [Hartwell] Nicholas, Hugh, Adam, Ralph, 4 hides (and) a half and I small virgate — that is [scilicet) the fifth part of half a hide — of the fee of Walkelin Ma- my(n)ot.'^ into 3 holdings of ^ hide, | hide, ^^ hide respectively. But this Survey makes them all rather larger. " Held of the Countess Judith by William Peverel in 1086. '0 Probably the half hide held by the King there in 1086. " William Peverel held -^ hide there of the bishop of Bayeux in 1086. "* Held of the count of Mortain by Wil- liam (de Cahagnes), as I hide and 2^ virgates, in 1086. " This holding appears, from its size, to be the 3^^ virgates there held by Bondi of Gun- frei de Cioches in 1086. But as William Mauduit was the successor of Winemar, it must represent the 2^ virgates (6^ small vir- gates) held of Winemar there by Maiulf in 1086. '* It appears to me that this may be the ' half a hide and half a virgate ' held of William Peverel by Turstin (Mantel) in 1086 as in 'another Courteenhall.' The land was afterwards reckoned as in Roade. '* Count Alan's in Domesday. '^ This exact amount — 4^ hides and 'a fifth of half a hide ' — was held in Domes- day by William Peverel of the bishop of Bayeux. It had now been added to the Maminot portion of the bishop's fief. The ' small virgate ' is explained, it will be seen, by this entry. 374
