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 LEICESTERSHIRE SURVEY fee. 180 Robert de Ferrers i carucate and 6 bo- vates. 181 In WYFORDEBIA [Wyfordby] 4 carucates and a half belonging to (the honour of) Blyth (de blida). 1 *' 2 Roger de Mowbray i carucate and a half. 183 In CHETELBY [Ab Kettleby] and HOLEWELL [Holwell] 9 carucates belonging to the Basset fee (de feodo Basset). m The bishop of Lincoln I carucate. 185 HUNDRED OF SCALFORD In the same vill King David 1 1 carucates and a half. 188 Richard Basset half a carucate. 187 In GOUTEBIA [Goad by Mar wood] Roger de Mowbray 6 carucates. 188 In KNIPTON the count of Mortain 8 carucates and 6 bovates. 183 Also William de Albini 3 ca- rucates and 2 bovates. 100 HUNDRED OF WALTHAM ON THE WOLDS In the same vill the earl of Leicester 16 caru- cates and a half. 191 Alan de Craon 2 carucates and a half. 192 In STONESBIA [Stonesby] the same Alan 8 ca- rucates. 193 50 The same amount is assigned by Domesday to the Countess Judith in ' Ricoltorp,' and was held of her by Hugh de Grentemaisnil, which accounts for its appearance here as belonging to the Leicester fee. M Held of the king by Raven the ' Serjeant ' in 1086. ~ ? Domesday assigns 5 T carucates here to Roger de Busli. v Representing the I T carucates which Geoffrey de Wirce held in 1086 as sokeland to Melton Mowbray. 181 In Domesday Robert de Buci is credited with 5 carucates in Holwell and 6 in Ab Kettleby. For once the duodecimal character of an assessment is better represented in Domesday than in the present survey, for the addition of the bishop of Lincoln's carucate in Holwell to the 5 which Robert de Buci held would make the adjacent vills of Holwell and Ab Kettleby answer to the geld for 6 carucates each. It is therefore possible that the 9 carucates of the present entry are due to a scribal error (ix for xi). 185 As in Domesday. 156 Domesday assigns 1 1 carucates here to the Countess Judith. 187 Held by Robert de Buci in 1086. 188 Held by Geoffrey de Wirce in 1086. Domes- day, however, also assigns 6 carucates in this vill to Robert de Buci, which seem to be unrepresented in the present survey. 169 The king's in Domesday. 190 Held by Robert de Todeni in 1086.- 191 Held by Hugh de Grentemaisnil in 1086. 194 Guy de Craon's in Domesday. 193 Also Guy's. In CAST-ON [Coston] Robert de Ferrers 9 carucates. 194 HUNDRED OF BARKESTONE In the same vill m William de Albini 23 ca- rucates. G[eonrey] 186a (<G' } ? Galfridui) the chamberlain I carucate. In SALTEBIA [Saltby] and BERTHALDEBIA [Bescaby] 20 carucates 196 belonging to the fee of Peverel. 197 In GARTHORP [Garthorpe] William Meschin 198 8 carucates. 199 HUNDRED OF SPROXTON In the same vill King David 8 carucates. 200 Alan de Craon 2 carucates. 201 In the same place Gilbert's son 2 carucates. 202 31 Held by Henry de Ferrers in 1086. 135 The only entry in Domesday relating to this vill assigns 15 carucates there to Robert de Todeni in demesne. 195:1 Probably Geoffrey de Clinton, who was cham- berlain, and held in Leicestershire. 56 These figures present great difficulty. Domesday assigns 2 hides 3 carucates in Saltby to Roger de Busli, a figure which probably represents a sum of 39 carucates. From the foundation charter of Blyth Priory it appears that Roger held land in Bescaby and Garthorpe (Harl. MSS. 3759, fol. 103), the assess- ments of which are probably included in the 39 caru- cates given for Saltby. On the other hand, the Croxton Cartulary (Belvoir MSS. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. iv, 176) assigns an assessment of 4 carucates to Saltby and 2 carucates to Bescaby. These last figures can hardly mean anything else than that these vills, from whatever reason, secured a reduction of 60 per cent, on their assessments subsequently to the date of the present survey. With regard to the discrepancy between the present assessment and that recorded in Domesday the uncertainty as to the exact meaning of the Leicester hide must be remembered. If the equation I hide = 14^ carucates which Domesday records under Melton Mowbray were intended to apply to the whole of Framland wapentake, the Domesday total for Saltby, Garthorpe, and Bescaby would stand at 32 carucates, as against the 28 carucates assigned to these vills here. 197 The honour of Blyth had come into the king's hands upon the forfeiture of Robert de Belesme in 1 1 02. William Peverel the elder had received large grants of land in Derbyshire somewhere about this date, and the grant of Saltby may have been made at the same time. 198 William Meschin, the younger brother of Ran- dulf, earl of Chester, had received land in the neigh- bouring vill of Sewstern. 199 See note 196. m Held by the Countess Judith in 1086. 101 Domesday assigns 3 carucates here to Guy de Craon. 202 Held by Godfrey de Cambray in 1086. 353 45