THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SURVEY Costentyn 3 small virgates. There also Harold half a hide.' In Stanewigge [Stanwick] Ascelin i hide and I virgate and a half of the fee of (Peter)- borough.' In Yrencestre [Irchester] Nicholas le Sauvage half a hide of the fee of Wahill.^ In Cotes [Cotton] Gilbert Fitz Richard 1 hide (and) a half and i small virgate of the fee of Deneford.* In another Cotes Frumbold de Deneford half a hide of the same fee.* In Cotes John Bidoun i hide (and) a half and I virgate and a half.* In Ringstede Gilbert Fitz Richard 4 small virgates of the fee of Deneford.* In Raundes (j;V). There also Gilbert 4 small virgates of the same fee. There also Robert the King's son, of the fee of Gloucester, 2 hides (and) a half.^ In Knoston [Knuston] Frumbold i hide and a half and i great virgate.® ' At Hargrave Domesday mentions only half a hide, which Eustace held of William Peverel. ^ This holding, as i hide and i virgate, was ' in demesne ' at the time of Domesday. It must be the 'one hide and one virgate ' which Ascelin (de Waterville) is found hold- ing by payment of ten shillings a year, apart from the manors which he held by knight- service. {Chronicon Petroburgense, p. I 70.) ' This appears to represent the 2 virgates there held in 1086, not by the lord of ' Wahill,' but by ' Robert ' under the count of Mortain. Domesday assigns also to William Peverel i^ hides ' de soca ' there.
- Domesday assigns to the bishop of Cou-
tances 6 hides and a virgate and a half in Raunds and 5 hides in Denford. These holdings had been broken up since his fief had escheated to the Crown, and this Survey treats of Denford under Ringstead and Cotton (see also p. 389 below).
- The entry 'Robert the King's son' must
have been made before Robert was created earl of Gloucester.
- This must represent the i hide and 3
virgates held of Gunfrei de 'Cioches' there, by Winemar, in io86. In the demesne of William Peverel 33 hides (and) a half and half a virgate. In Boseyate [Bozeat] (are) 3 small virgates of the fee of William Peverel.' HUNDRED OF NEUBOTLEGRAVE In Daylington [Dallington] (there are) 4 hides of the fee of the abbot of (Peter)- borough.^ In DusTON (there are) 4 hides of the fee of William Peverel.^ In Upton the King has 2 hides (and) a half.i" In HoREPOL [Harpole] (there are) 4 hides of the fee of Beuver [Belvoir]. Peter i hide (and) a half. Also another al'iud) of the fee of Peverel. In Kyselingbvr[ie] (there are) 3 hides (and) a half of the fee of Gilbert de Gaunt.'* There also the earl of Leicester half a hide.'^ In BucKEBROK [Bugbrooke] (there are) 4 hides of the fee of Mortain [morcnc')}*' In Heyford there are 4 hides.'* In Clachetorp [Clasthoip] and in Little Heyford (there are) 4 hides."' ' Held of William Peverel, as a virgate and a half, by Turstin in 1086.
- Held by ' Richard ' of the abbot of Peter-
borough in 1086. ^ So also in Domesday. '" Entered as 2 hides in Domesday. " These entries are very obscure. Domes- day gives under Harpole only 2^ hides which were held by William Peverel. It would seem as if the text of this Survey were cor- rupt. In that case its meaning may be that of 4 hides in Harpole, Peter held li of the fee of Belvoir, while the rest (2i) was of the fee of Peverel. But the former holding can- not be found in Domesday. '« Held by Gilbert de ' Gand ' in 1086. '3 Part of the Mortain fief in 1086. '* Held by the count of Mortain in 1086. '5 Domesday assigns there 2f to the bishop of Bayeux, if to Gilbert de Gaunt, and f hide to the count of Mortain, in Nether Heyford. "5 The count of Mortain held i^ hides and William Peverel half a hide in Clasthorp, 377
