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 DOMESDAY SURVEY who had been under the commendation and soke of Wisgar in the time of King Edward.*''^ WilHam de Warenne, a great landowner in Norfolk and in Sussex,'^' takes a less prominent place in the Suffolk Domesday, where, however, the same distinction is made as in the Norfolk Survey between the land which he held of the fee of his brother Frederic and that which he had acquired by English thegns and freemen, of whom one, the thegn Toka, was Frederic's antecessor in both Norfolk and Suffolk. '^^ Among his under-tenants may be noted Robert de Glanville and Robert and Godfrey de Petro-ponte, whose name survives at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex. William de Warenne had also succeeded to some of the estates of Edric of Laxfield and William Malet, which were claimed by Robert Malet. '^* Suane of Essex, his father Robert, and his grandmother Wimarc, belong to the history of Essex, where both Robert and Suane held the office of sheriff. Nearly all Suane's Suffolk estates had been held by his father. They were chiefly in the south of the county, but he held a few acres in Thingoe Hundred. Of his father's forty-one Ipswich burgesses fifteen were dead, and even over these Suane had lost the commendation, though he retained the soke and sac.'" Eudo the Steward {Dapifer), the son-in-law of Richard Fitz Gilbert, was a tenant-in-chief of the Crown in the three eastern counties,'^* and in all three he succeeded Lisois de Moustiers,'*" whom we find encroaching on the rights of Ely Abbey at Lakenheath and at Brandon. " He succeeded also Godwin, a thegn of King Edward, Canut, Earl Algar's freeman, Edric of Laxfield and William Malet, and Aluric Campa, who was the antecessor of Eudo in Essex and Cambridgeshire as well as in Suffolk.^ The brothers Roger and William of Otburville, or Oburville, held composite fiefs built up from the estates of thegns, sokemen, and freemen.''^ One of Roger's predecessors, the thegn Gutmund, brother of Uluric or Wulfric, Abbot of Ely, was also the antecessor of a more important Suffolk landowner, Hugh de Montfort, who succeeded him at Nacton, Livermere, Occold, Dagworth, and in the manor of Haughley (Haga/a),^^^ the caput oi the later honour of Haganet or Haughley, the Honor Constabularie. This honour was connected with the constableship of Dover Castle, where in the attack of 1067 Hugh de Montfort was in command. The office passed to Robert de Vere, the son-in-law of Hugh de Montfort, and then to Henry of Essex, son of Suane of Essex and grandson of Robert Fitz Wimarc.''* Hugh de Montfort's chief under-tenant was Roger de Candos ; Burchard, Gurth, ' Edith the rich,' Edric of Laxfield, and WiUiam Malet are mentioned among the former lords of the numerous freemen who '" Dom. Bk. 395^ et seq. »" Ibid. 398 et seq.; cf. V.C.H. Norf. ii ; l^.C.H. Suss. i. "« Dora. Bk. 398, 398^ ; above, pp. 381-2. '" Ibid. 399, 399^, 400 ; r.C.H. Norf. ii, 18. '" Dom. Bk. 399^. '" Ibid. 401 etseq.; V.C.H. Essex,, 345 ; Viom^, Feud. Engl. 168; Freeman, A^om. Cw^^. iv (isted.), 736. "' Dom. Bk. 402* et seq.; F.C.H. Essex, i, 347-8 ; V.C.H. Norf. ii, 20. '" Round, Feud. Engl. 460 ; Freeman, Norm. Conq. iv (ist ed.), 286 ; v (ist ed.), 30. Lisois was 'the hero of the passage of the Aire.' He had lands in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, where he was also succeeded by Eudo ' Dapifer.' "" Dom. Bk. 403 ; Inq. El. (Rec. Com.), 517^ ; Round, op. cit. 32. "' Dom. Bk. 402*, 403, 403* ; V.C.H. Essex, i, i$i. "* Dom. Bk. 403^ et seq. "' Ibid. 4053 et seq.; V.C.H. Essex, i, 346 ; V.C.H. Norf ii, 20. '" Round, Commune of Land. 278-82 ; Geoffrey de Mandeville, 326-7, 388-96 ; Freeman, Norm. Conq. iv (2nd ed.), 73, 114-16 ; cf. Dom. Bk. 301^, where 'W. Cunestabla ' is mentioned. 399
 * the Lewes exchange.''^* His Suffolk fief was composed of the lands of