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 A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE In Norton [Green's Norton] and in (its) soke 7 hides and i large virgate.' In Atteneston [Adston] Geoffrey de Turviir 3 small virgates.^ There also the monks of Bee 8 small virgates. HUNDRED OF TOUCESTR[E] In Gauton [Gayton] the advocate de Bettune 4 hides.^ In Pateshill [PateshuU] Simon de Wahill 7 hides.* There also William de Hocton' 8 small virgates. There also ' earl Maurice ' {Comes Mauriclm) of the fee of Botebot 2 small virgates.* In FoxLEYA [Foxley] Simon de Wahill 4 4 small virgates.® There also {Comes Maur') 8 small virgates of the fee of Berkamstede.'' There also the monks of Northampton 6 small virgates.* In HiNTON [Hinton in the Hedges] Elias 2 hides of the fee of Earl William.^ ' So held by the King in 1086. See also note under Blakesley above. ^ This was probably the ' one virgate ' held in almoin by Leofwine, the priest, in 1086. Geoffrey de Turville must have held under the earl of Leicester, to whom the Crown had alienated the land. ^ Held by Sigar de ' Cioches ' as 4^ hides in 1086, though Domesday does not mention the place. The seigneur of Bethune, ' advocate ' of Arras, was here his heir. lord of 'Wahill.' The above three entries amount to 8 hides in all, but this may be only a coincidence. ' Baker appears to accept ' Earl Maurice,' here and at Foxley, as a real person, but I deem the name to be clearly a corruption of Comes Maurit' (count of Mortain). ' Mauri- tanium ' is the form under which Mortain appears in the East Anglian Domesday. with those under PateshuU above (p. 372) were included in the Domesday total of 8 hides for the ' Wahill ' fee in PateshuU. ' Held by Ralf of the count of Mortain as ■^ hide in 1086. lands seem to have been part of the Wahill fief in 1086, for they were given to the monks by one of its tenants, temp. Hen. I. of Earl Geoffrey de Mandeville in ii66. In Wappenham Henry de Pinkeny 2 hides of (his own) fee.*" In EvELEiA [Evenley] are 4 hides." In Grimescote [Grimscot] Aunsel 2 hides and 4 small virgates of the fee of Roger de Moubray.'^ There also the monks of Dones- tabel' (Dunstable) 2 hides of the fee of Wahill." In PoTTON John de Daventre i hide (and) a half (and) i small virgate. In TiFFELD William de Pery I hide (and) a half (and) I small virgate of the fee of Earl Hugh.'* There also Walter de Fortho I hide (and) a half and 2 small virgates.** There also William de Gaynes 7 small virgates.** In Wytlebyr' [Whittlebury] Richard 6 small virgates of the fee of Selveston [Silver- stone]. In Toucestr' the earl of Arundel 7 hides (and) 4 small virgates.*^ There also Wybert atte church [ad ecclesiam) 6 small virgates of the fee of St. Wandrille.'* ' Ernald ' had held these 2 hides of Geoffrey de Mandeville in 10S6. 'Wahill' by Domesday. '^ Held of the count of Mortain in 1086, by Alan, as 2^^ hides at Cold Higham. This proves that a grant from the count's fief had here been made to Roger (or his father Nigel). lord of 'Wahill' in 1086 as 'ad ecclesiam de Pascelle,' but in Cold Higham (to which Grimscot adjoins). The monks of Dunstable had obtained them by gift of Walter de WahuU, who gave them ' all the land of Grimscote of his fee,' with a moiety of Pates- hill church. '* Here again Domesday assigns no such holding in Tiffield to Earl Hugh (of Chester), but the accuracy of this Survey is proved by its totals amounting to exactly 4 hides. '* Held of the count of Mortain, as a hide and a half and the fifth of a hide, by ' Ralf in 1086. '* Held of the count of Mortain, as half a hide and the fifth of a hide, by William (de Cahagnes) in 1086. '■' Held by the King, as 7^ hides, in 1086. man, entered in 1086 as having there half a 373
 * Domesday assigns 8 hides there to the
 * It is possible that these 4 'small virgates'
 * St. Andrew's Priory manor. These
 * Helyas de Hintone held 4 knights' fees
 * « Ghilo (de Pinkeney)'s in 1086.
 * These 4 hides are assigned to the lord of
 * ' These are clearly the 2 hides held of the
 * This must be the holding of the soch-