THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SURVEY In Thorpe [Thorpe Mandeville] 2 hides.' In Stanes [Stene] Gilbert de Pinkeny 2 hides. ^ In CoLEWYTH [Culworth] William 2 hides and 4 small virgates."* There also Otuer i hide.* In Stotebyr[e] [Stotesbery] 2 hides ^ which the monks of Northampton hold. In RoDESTONE [Radston] 2 hides of the fee of the earl of Chester.^ In WvTEFELD [Whitfield] Gilbert de Monte 2 hides and 2 virgates in demesne. In Merston [Merston St. Lawrence] Ralf Murdac 4 hides of the fee of the earl of Leicester.* In Siresham Thomas Sorel i hide (and) a half.^ There also the earl of Leicester i small virgate.^ There also Gilo half a hide."^ There also William Fitz Aliu (?) 4 small vir- gates.^ In Chelverdescote '^ half a hide. The same earl of Leicester. In Brackele(y) and Hausho [Hawes]'^the same earl 7 hides and a half. HUNDRED OF WARDON In Wardon [Chipping Warden] Richard Foliot 2 hides (and) a half and I great virgate, that is [scilicet) the fourth part of I knight('s fee) of the King's fee in capite}* In EsTON [Aston le Wall] and Apeltreya [Apeltre] William de Boulogne ('Bolonia') 7 hides of the fee of earl de Mandeville.'* In BoTTELENDON [Boddington] Fulc Pay- nel 2 hides ; one of them (is) of the fee of Chester. There also William Meschin i hide. There also I hide of the fee of the bishop of Lincoln.'^ In Byfeld 8 hides of the fee of the earl of Leicester. In Trapesford [Trafford], which belongs to Byfeld, I hide and 2 small virgates." In Helmendene [Helmedon] William de I" Hinton (by Byficid) of the fee of Earl Torewelle 4 hides of the fee of the earl of William (de Mandeville) 2 hides which Robert Leicester." holds.'* ' Held of Ghilo (de Pinkeny) by Ingel- ram in 1086. 2 Held by Ghilo (de Pinkeny) in 1086. ^ Held by ' Landric ' of Ghilo (de Pinkeny) in 1086 as 2 hides and -^ hide in ' Brime.'
- Domesday assigns there to Geoffrey de
Mandeville i^ hides and |- virgate, held of him by Osbern. The above Otuer was doubtless Otwel de Bovil, a tenant of the earl of Essex in 11 66.
- Held of Ghilo de Pinkeny by Hugh and
Landric in 1086. ^ Held by the earl of Chester in 1086. ' This was an appendage of the King's manor of Sutton in 1086. The virgates in demesne may represent its ' 2 car. inland ' at that date. Cf. p. 374, n. 13.
- These were the earl of Chester's in
1086. There is probably a scribal error. ^ These three holdings amount to only 2 hides, though Domesday assigns 2^^ hides there to the fief of Earl Aubrey and half a hide to the count of Mortain. '0 Held by Ghilo (de Pinkeney) in 1086. " Held by the count of Mortain in 1086. The above tenant was one of the Turvilles. In Farendon [Farndon] Simon Chendut i hide (and) a half and I small virgate of the '^ This is the manor which cannot be identified. '^ This was part of the escheated fief of Earl Aubrey, to which Domesday assigns 2 hides in Hawes and 3 in Brackley. Doubtless this Survey includes in the above reckoning part of what Domesday enters under Syresham. '* Held for the same amount by Guy de Reinbuedcurt, whose heir he was, in 1086. '* Held, as 6 hides in ' Estone,'of Geoffrey de Mandeville by Mauger in 1086. The above William of Boulogne was maternally Geoffrey's grandson, and lived temp. Henry I. He was father of Faramus ' of Boulogne.' "^ Domesday assigns 2 hides there to the count of Mortain and i hide to the earl of Chester ; nothing to the bishop of Lincoln. " Domesday assigns 8 hides there to the earl of Chester (not Leicester), and 2 hides to Hugh de Grentmesnil, of whom the earl of Leicester was heir. The earl of Chester had i^ hides at Trafford in 1086. '* Held by Ultbert of Geoffrey de Mande- ville in 1086. 369
