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Rh The manor given by this charter is in Norfolk, and has now the name of West Walton or Walton Prior, and is situate in the hundred and half of Freebridge, in Marshland, on the banks of the Wisbeach river, and is thus described in Domesday, under the heading Terræ Willelmi de Warrenna, fo. 150—160 b. Hund. et dim. Fredrebruge.

This notification applies to all the lands that were held by the Saxon Toche; and in Domesday, under Terræ Willelmi de Warene, in Cambridgeshire, f. 196 b, we have this statement of his degree of affinity to William de Warene.

Domesday again furnishes us in the survey of the lands of William de Warren, in Norfolk, with the proof that this brother of William de Warren was a Fleming, and this entry is of singular importance in subverting the fabled royal descent of Gundrada, as a daughter of William the Conqueror; it occurs in vol. ii. fol. 169, b. Hundredum de Grenehou.

The monastery designated by the name of Sanctus Petrus in these extracts from Domesday is that of Cluny, and that under the name of Sanctus Ricarius had anciently the Latin name of Centulum, and at the present day its site is the small