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 THE DOMESDAY SURVEY is ' Mideltone ' (fo. 227). Mollington lies in the extreme north of Oxfordshire, in an angle formed by Warwickshire and Northampton- shire, and is surveyed partly in Warwickshire as ' Mollitone,' partly in Oxfordshire as ' Mollitone,' and partly in Northamptonshire as ' Moli- tone.' ' From such peculiarities as these in this and adjoining counties, Mr. Eyton argued not only that Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Staf- fordshire must have been surveyed by the same group of Domesday commissioners, but also that ' Northamptonshire belonged to the same Domesday circuit.' ^ This suggestion might account for much of the above confusion ; but all conclusions on Domesday circuits have to be accepted with great caution. In addition to the difficulty caused, as we have seen, by the entry, under Northamptonshire, of manors lying in other counties, questions have arisen as to the identity of manors in Northamptonshire itself. ' Haselbeech,' for instance, has been strangely confused with Cold Ashby, and Addington with Elton, as I have explained in the notes to the text (fos. 221, 223). It was most natural that confusion should arise between Luddington and Lutton on the eastern border of the county. ' Lidin- tone ' and ' LuUintone ' are found close together among the Peterborough manors in Domesday (fo. 221b) ; and Mr. Stuart Moore notes that ' there appears to be some doubt as to the proper identification of these two places.' Not only did they both belong to Peterborough Abbey ; their bounds actually touched. We can, however, clearly discern that one of them had ' Lullington ' for its medieval form. Now a perambulation of the Huntingdonshire border, executed in 1244, and entered in the Ramsey Cartulary, shows that the vills of Winwick, Thurning, ' Lullington,' ' Lodington^ and Elton, follow one another in this position.^ This decisively identifies ' Lullington ' as Luddington (' in the brook '), and ' Lodington ' as Lutton. This conclusion, moreover, is confirmed by the ' Northamptonshire Survey,' which places ' Lil- lington ' in Polebrook Hundred, in which Luddington is situate, while it assigns ' Lodington ' to Willibrook Hundred, in which still is Lutton. So unlikely, however, might this seem, that Mr. Stuart Moore adopted the opposite identification in his edition of the local Domesday. Bridges, however, had rightly identified the ' LuUintone ' of Domesday (the mediaeval Lullington) with Luddington,* and its ' Lidintone ' or ' Ludi- tone ' with Lutton.^ ' See "Notei on the Oxfordshire Domesday, pp. 14, 20, where it is acutely pointed out that the I hide, under Northants, makes, with the 4 hides in Oxfordshire, the normal 5 hides, which group therefore must be older than the county boundary. The 5 hides entered under Warwickshire raise the total to 10 hides. ' Cartularium de Rameseia (Rolls Series), II. 40. Oddly enough, Mr. Kirk, in the index, identifies both as Luddington. ^ History of Northamptonshire, II. 402. Abbey had made over to Ramsey Abbey, which held the rest of the vill, as ' Lodintune,' in 271
 * Domesday Studies, Staffordshire, pp. 1—6.
 * Ibid., p. 462. ' Luditone ' (fo. 222) was the portion of Lutton which Peterborough