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 A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE make a really complete list of these extraneous manors. In Rutland alone there are more than twenty,* but these, it must be remembered, were included at that time in Northamptonshire. Staffordshire, though it did not touch the county, contributes three intruding manors, Marston, Lapley, and West Bromwich. In Warwickshire are Sawbridge in Wolfhamcote (just over the border), Berkswell and Whitacre (in the heart of the county). Over (on the Leicestershire border), and Which- ford (in the south of the county).* Portions of the neighbouring Bedfordshire parishes of Farndish and Puddington are entered under Northamptonshire (fo. 225^), on the border of which they lie. In Huntingdonshire, but on the border of Northamptonshire, are Stibbing- ton, Elton, Thurning, and Catworth ; portions of all four are surveyed under the latter county. It is to Oxfordshire, however, that the greater part of the interpolated manors belong. As it was quaintly observed by Mr. Morton, they are found chiefly in ' two companies,' ^ one of them at the end of the fief held by the bishop of Coutances (fo. 221), the other at the end of that of Hugh de Grentmaisnil (fo. 224^). The former consists of a group of vills in north-east Oxfordshire, Finmere, ' Hedham ' (? Hethe) and Shelswell,* with Glympton in the heart of the county, ' Oitone ' (? Wootton), ' Hortone ' (.? Worton), and ' Eg- forde ' (? Upper Heyford).' The other ' company ' consists of Cottisford, Charlton-on-Otmoor,' ' Scipford '(Sibford Gower), and ' Sciptune' ' (Ship- ton-on-Charwell). The remaining Oxfordshire locality is Mollington, which appears on fo. 226 as ' Molitone.' Mr. Stuart Moore identifies it as " Milton or Middleton Malsor," Northants, but the Domesday form of this place Luffenham, South Luffenham, Great Casterton, Little Casterton, Horn, Lyddington, Essen- dine, Tinwell, Empingham, Tolthorp, Ryhall, Belmesthorp, and Tickencote. ^ See text for proof of these identifications. ' Additional MS., 3560, fo. 159. Oxfordshire, hitherto supposed to be wanting. 'Egforde' is left by Mr. Stuart Moore and by the author of the valuable Notes on the Oxfordshire Domesday (1892), as an unknown Oxfordshire manor ; but, as Upper Heyford, is assigned 5 hides, as ' Hegford,' under Oxford- shire, it can hardly be doubted that the 5 hides of 'Egforde' represent its other half, especially as its neighbour. Lower Heyford (* Haiforde '), was assessed at 10 hides. 'Hortone' is similarly unidentified by the above writers, but as the latter assigns the two ' Hortone ' manors, surveyed under Oxfordshire, to Worton, this is probably the place. There is, how- ever, a Horton, by Otmoor, on the Bucks border, with which Mr. Morton identified it. ^ Mr. Stuart Moore identifies this considerable manor as Carlton, Northamptonshire, which, however, duly appears, under 'Stoche' Hundred, as ' Carlintone ' (fo. 223). There can be no doubt that the Notes on the Oxfordshire Domesday (p. 20) is right in assigning it to that county, like the manors which precede and follow it. Indeed, its identity with Charlton- on-Otmoor is proved by Testa de Nevi//, p. 108. '' These two manors are left unidentified in the Notes on the Oxfordshire Domesday (p. 2o), but they appear together in the Testa de Nevi// {pp. 100, 112), under the forms ' Sibbeford ' and ' Shipton ' (or 'Scipton'), as held of the earl of Winchester, an heir of Hugh de Grent- maisnil ; and their entry there on pp. 103, 1 04 proves them to have been Sibford Gower (near SwalclifFe) and Shipton-on-Charwell respectively. 270
 * Ketton, Tixover, Barrowden, Seaton, Thorp, Morcot, Bisbrooke, Glaston, North
 * These three vills formed part later of the Gloucester fief {Testa de Nevil/, p. 104).
 * If I am right in these suggested identifications, we have here the survey of Wootton,