THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SURVEY 2 hides and two-thirds of i hide of the fee of Berkamstede. There also Peter I virgate.* In Rowell' [Rothwell] and in Overton [Orton] and in Lodington Eudode HaschuU' 9 hides and I small virgate. In Lodington William the constable 3 virgates, of which Robert le Baud is tenant.^ In Deseburg' [Desborough] Norman and Reg[inald] race {sic) 2 hides and two-thirds of I hide.^ In PiPPEWELL Robert Fitz Hugh half a hide and the third part of one hide. There also William de Aubeny half a hide. Ac- cording to {per) another roll i hide and three- quarters of a hide.* In RisTON [Rushton] Andrew 2 hides (and) a half and the third part of a hide of the fee of king David.* There also Robert Basset i hide (and) a half and i small virgate of the fee of William de Aubeny.® There also Viel {Vitalii) Engayne two-thirds of a hide which Viel {Vitalii) Lovet held {sic). There also ' The first holding represents the 2 hides and i|- virgate (which is I virgate short) held there by Humfrey of the count of Mortain in 1086. Domesday also assigns half a virgate there to the Crown and the same amount to St. Edmund's Abbey.
- This was an alienation of Crown demesne.
The King had held in Rothwell and Orton, with their dependent estate at Loddington, 10 hides in 1086, and this total is practically that of the holdings given above. ^ Desborough was much divided in 1086. Ambrose held i^ hides of William Peverel, Robert de Todeni half a hide, Alan a virgate of the count of Mortain, and the Crown half a virgate. Total 2^ hides.
- According to Domesday, Dodin held of
Walter the lord of Wahull half a hide in Pipewell, and Humfrey of the count of Mor- tain a third of a hide there. The remaining holding was the half hide which ' Roger ' held of Robert de ' Todeni,' and which had now come to the latter's successor, William de Aubeny (' Brito ') of Belvoir. The ' other roll ' and its entry cannot be explained ; but this may imply that the total assessment is elsewhere stated to be i| hides, not i^ hides.
- The same amount was held there of the
Countess Judith by Eustace in 1086. « Held of Robert de ' Todeni ' by ' Hugh,' as i^ hides, in 1086. ' This represents the half hide and the Sigric {Siricius) Bucar' the sixth part of a hide. There also, of the socage of Geytington [Geddington], I small virgate and a half.* Roger de Cranesle was {sic) the tenant. In Bereford [Barford] (is) i hide of the socage of Geytington [Geddington].* In Clendon', of the same socage, half a hide.'" There also Sigric {Siricius) Bucar' half a hide and half a virgate of the fee of William (Fitz) Alvred." There also Ralf Normann' half a hide and half a virgate of the socage of Rowell' [Rothwell].'* In Thorp' [Thorpe Malsor] Fucher' Malesoures i hide and the third part of a hide of the fee of Avenel William {IViiri)}^ In another Thorp' [Thorpe Underwood r] Hervey Belet two-thirds of i hide. In Drayton' [Draughton] i hide and half a virgate of the fee of Rowell' [Rothwell].'* There also Corbet half a hide and three- quarters of I virgate of the fee of king David.'* There also William Durdent i great virgate of the fee of Menfelyn of Wolf- rington [Wolverton].'* (waste) virgate which William (Engayne) held of Robert de Buci there in 1086.
- The remaining holdings entered in
Domesday at Rushton are half a virgate ap- purtenant to the King's manor of Barford (in Rushton), and half a virgate held by the Abbey of Grestain (see note '" below). ^ Entered as an independent manor in Domesday. '* Domesday enters half a hide and a third of a hide here as appurtenant to the King's manor of Rothwell. This Survey gives half a hide and half a virgate as appurtenant to Rothwell, and half a hide as appurtenant to Geddington. " Held by the abbey of Grestain as half a hide and a third of a hide in 1086. This proves that Sigric's holding in Rushton was also that of the abbey of Grestain. '* See note ' above. '^ Held, as i hide and the third part of a hide, of the count of Mortain by Fulcherus in 1086. See note to ' Alidetorp ' in Domes- day text (p. 327 above). '* As in Domesday. '* Held of the Countess Judith, as 2^ vir- gates, in 1086. '* Entered in Domesday as appurtenant to Maidwell, one of Maine (of Wolverton's) manors. Mainfelin was lord of Wolverton. 385
