THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SURVEY [Note. — The place-names are only identified below where the forms in the Survey require it.] HOKESLAWE TwYWELLE. Aubrey (' Albr[icus] ') the chamberlain 2 hides of the fee of the abbot of Thorney.' There also of the fee of earl David.* There also of the fee of the abbot of (Peter)borough i great virgate.' In Slipton I hide and i virgate of the fee of William de Corey. There also Richard Fitz Hugh two-thirds of i hide of the fee of (Peter)borough.' There also Roger nephew of the Abbot a third part of i hide of the same fee.3 In SuBURG [Sudborough], 2^ hides of the fee of Westminster (Abbey).* In LoFWYC [LufFwick] Th — i hide and I virgate of the fee of Deneford [Denford].' There also Ralf Fleming i^ virgates of the fee of Earl David.* There also Guy (' Wydo ') his brother I large virgate of the fee of Thorney.* In Drayton Aubrey (' Albr[icus] ') the chamberlain half a hide of the king's fee. In YsLEP [Islip] the same Aubrey (' Al- ' Aubrey de Vere, chamberlain to Henry I., had obtained this land for his life, at an annual rent oi £(), from Abbot Gunter (1085- II 12). His younger son Robert afterwards obtained it from Abbot Robert (1113-1151), on the same terms, for his life [Mon. Ang.^ II. 603).
- This portion is the hides held by the
Countess Judith in 1086. It was held of her heirs, as half a fee, by the De Veres. ' Domesday assigns to the Abbot I hide and I virgate there, which is exactly equal to the above hide plus the virgate in Twywell.
- Three hides according to Domesday.
- This would seem to be the i^ virgates
assigned to Sibold in Domesday. ^ Perhaps part of Thorney Abbey's fee at Twywell. Drayton in LufFwick. The bishop of Coutances had held hides in ' Luhwic ' (Domesday), of which i^ hides appear above as * of the fee of Denford,' while the remain- ing half hide (Drayton) had, we here see, been granted to Aubrey de Vere, from whom it passed to his younger son Robert, who held it in capitt, with Adington Magna (similarly part of the bishop's fief), in 1166 as half a knight's fee. br[icus]') 2 hides of the King's fee. There also 4 sokemen of the King (hold) i hide of the fee of Westminster (Abbey).* In AuDEWYNCLE [Aldwinkle] the abbot of (Peter)borough (holds) 3 hides (and) a half, of which Ascelin de Waterville is tenant. There also Geoffrey de Glynton i large vir- gate of the fee of Gloucester belonging to (the) Barton. There also Richard son of Guy 3 hides less half a virgate' of the Queen's [hc) fee.'" Also in Benifeld [Benefield] William de Lisurs 3 large virgates of the King's fee." In Bernewelle [Barnwell] Robert de Ferrers ('Ferariis') (holds) 6 hides and i large virgate of the King's fee.'* There also Reginald le Moyne (holds) 6 hides of the fee of Ramsey (Abbey). '^ In LiLLEFORD [Lilford] William Olyfart (holds) 5 hides of the fee of the king of Scot- land (' Scocie').'* NAUESFORD In Tychem[er]s [Tichmarsh] Robert de Ferr[ers] 10 hides.** There also Ascelin de Waterville 3 hides and i virgate and three- quarters of half a hide from (Peter)borough (Abbey).'« In Thrapston Ralf Fitz Oger " 2 hides
- Domesday only assigns to Islip i hide
and I virgate held by the bishop of Coutances. ' ' iij hid' dim. virg' minus.' '" Domesday assigns to Peterborough Abbey 3 hides there, and to Guy de ' Reinbuedcurt ' (father of Richard) 5 hides. Thus our survey accounts for a total of only 6f hides, as against the 8 hides in Domesday. " Held by Richard (de Engaine) in 1 086. " Barnwell All Saints, which the King had held, in demesne, as 6^ hides in 1086.
- ^ Barnwell St. Andrew (at one time
' Barnwell le Moine '). It was afterwards in Polebrook Hundred. " Held by Walter of the Countess Judith in 1086. '* The Domesday holding of Henry de Ferrers. '* Held of the Abbey by ' Azelin' in 1086. '^ Son and successor of Oger the Breton, lord of Bourne (' Brunne '), Lincolnshire, who held 2^ hides here in 1086. 365
