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 A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE In OVERTON [Coleorton] Richard Basset 4 ca- rucates. 114 In WRDINTON [Worthington] I carucate. 116 In another OVERTON [? Coleorton] Robert de Ferrers 2 carucates. 116 In the same place the earl of Chester I carucate. 117 In STANTON [Staunton Harold] Robert de Ferrers 2 carucates. 118 In the same place Norman de Verdon 3 carucates. 119 In DAILESCROFT [ ] Philip de Beauchamp, Marshal, I carucate. 130 In DONINTON [Castle Donington] the earl of Chester 22 carucates and a half with appen- dages. 121 In WITEWIC [Whitwick] the earl of Leicester i carucate and a half. 123 In the same place Robert de Ferrers i carucate and a half. 123 HUNDRED OF DISEWORTH In the same vill Robert de Ferrers 6 carucates and i virtiate. The earl of Chester 6 carucates. In the same place the earl (? of Chester) 3 caru- cates and a half. Norman de Verdon i carucate and 2 bovates. 124 In HANTHIRN [Hathern] 9 carucates. 136 to account for its 6 carucates among the figures given in the terra rfgis by Domesday. It may also be noted that in the present survey Norman de Verdon appears as holding land in the adjoining vill of Long Whatton, which is not accounted for by Domesday. 114 Held of Robert de Buci by Warin in 1086. 115 See above, note 1 08. 116 Henry de Ferrers in 1086. 117 Not entered by name in Domesday. "* Hugh de Grentemaisnil held this amount of land in Staunton Harold in 1086, but it is not easy to account for its transfer to the Ferrers family. 19 The estate represented by this holding cannot be traced in Domesday. ' Dailescroft ' has not yet been identified. 11 Entered in Domesday as a former possession of the countess ' Alveva.' Domesday, however, assigns 5 carucates in Castle Donington to Earl Hugh of Chester, which do not appear in the present survey. '^ Domesday assigns half a carucate in Whitwick to Hugh de Grentemaisnil.
 * 3 Not entered by name in Domesday.

1:4 The only entry in Domesday referring to Disc- worth by name assigns 3 carucates there to William Loveth. The proportion of this vill which is un- surveyed by name in Domesday, is so large and divided among so many tenants in chief that we cannot sup- pose its assessment to be included without specification among the assessment of other vills, so that to all seeming we have here another instance of a consider- able omission made in the completed survey by the Domesday scribes. 1>J See above, note 112. In WIDESERS [ ] 3 carucates (the land) of William de Gresel' (Gresley). 126 In LINTONA [Linton, Derbyshire] the same, I carucate. 137 In BLAKEFORDEB' [Blackfordby] the earl of Leicester 3 carucates. 128 In CULVERTEB' [Kilwardby in Ashby de la Zouch] 2 carucates, 129 also Robert de Ferrers I carucate. 130 In WODETE [Woodcote in Ashby de la Zouch] Robert de Ferrers I carucate and a half. 131 In ALTON [Alton Grange] the earl of Leicester 1 carucat* and a half. 132 In RAVENESTON [Ravenstone] the same, i virgate and a half. In the same place the earl of Chester 3 virgates and a half. Also the Earl Warenne (?) (comes War 1 ) 2 carucates. 133 In SUIPESTONA [Snibston] Hugh the sheriff 2 carucates. 134 HUNDRED OF SEAL In the same vill Robert de Ferrers 7 caru- cates. 138 In another SEYLA [Over Seal] the same, 6 carucates. 136 26 In 1086 3 carucates in 'Windesers' (a name which eludes identification) were held of Henry de Ferrers by Nigel. The present entry proves Nigel to be identical with Nigel de Stafford, a considerable tenant in chief in South Derbyshire, and the founder of the Derbyshire family of Gresley. 127 Held by Nigel of Henry de Ferrers in 1086. 128 See note 132. 119 See note 132. 130 Not identified in Domesday. 131 Domesday assigns 2 carucates in 'Udecote' to Henry de Ferrers. Possibly the odd half carucate may represent part of the Kilwardby entry above. 138 Domesday assigns i carucates in ' Heletone ' to Hugh de Grentemaisnil, a sum which is exactly equalled by the present i| carucates together with the 3 carucates in Blackfordby and the 2 carucates in Kilwardby, assigned above to Hugh's successor, the earl of Leicester. 133 Of the three distinct holdings specified in this entry Domesday only accounts for the last, which apparently represents the 2 carucates which William Buenvaslet held in 1086 in ' Ravenstorp.' 134 Hugh the sheriff aRas Hugh ' of Leicester ' ap- pears below as holding land in Packington, which is assigned by Domesday to Coventry Abbey. It is prob- able that these 2 carucates in Snibston, which does not appear by name in Domesday, were included in the 8J carucates at which Packington was assessed in 1086. Hugh's occupancy of the land in question can have been only temporary, for Packington remained a possession of Coventry Abbey until the dissolution, when Snibston appears as a member of it. 135 Held by Robert of Henry de Ferrers in io8& 138 Ibid. 350