A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE virgates.* There also the earl of Leicester 2 hides (and) a half and i great virgate.* HUNDRED OF ANFORDESHO In Wenbugburg' [Wellingborough] of (the fee of) Croylaunde 5 hides (and) a half.' There also Nicholas de Cogeho 3 great vir- gates of the fee of king David.* There also the earl of Leicester i hide.* In Herdwyk' [Hardwick] (are) virgates of the fee of king David.* small In Eketon [Ecton] (are) 4 hides of the fee of the earl de Ferrers. William de Mun- gom[er]y is the tenant. In SiWELL [Sywell] the monks of North- ampton and the nuns of Elstow {Aunestowe) 4 hides.* In HoLECOTE [Holcot] Ad[am] 2 hides (and) a half and i small virgate of the fee of William de Curcy.' There also i hide and 4 small virgates of the fee of king David.'" In EssEBY [Meats Ash by] are 4 hides of the fee of king David. In Wyleby [Wilby] (are) 4 hides of the fee of king David." In DoDiNGTON [Duddington] (are) 4 hides of the fee of king David." » Held by 'Ralf of Robert de Buci, as i virgate and I bovate, in 1086.
- Held of the count of Mortain, as 3 hides
less a virgate (the same amount), by William and Durand in 1086. ' So also in Domesday.
- This is the amount assigned to Countess
Judith there in 1086.
- The only other holding at Welling-
borough entered in Domesday is i virgate held of the bishop of Coutances. ® Entered in Domesday as I hide. ' These four hides were held of the Ferrers' fee by Ralf in io86. Walter de Mungomery held four knights' fees of the Earl in 1166, but William seems to have been his tenant in 1177.
- Held in demesne by the Count of Mor-
tain as 4 hides in 1086.
- Entered in Domesday as 2 hides and
2 virgates appurtenant to Brixworth (which, as has been seen above) had passed to Curcy. '" Held by Hugh of the Countess Judith as I hide and i virgates in 1086. " Countess Judith's in 1086. In (Earl's) Barton (are) 4 hides of the fee of king David.** HUNDRED OF ORLINGBERGE In Orlingberge [Orlingbury] Fucher Malesou[re]s i hide of the fee of Wahill.'* There also i hide (and) a half of the fee of William de Curcy." In Wymale [Withmale] i hide (and) a half and i virgate of the fee of Wahill'.'* In Bateshasel Malesou[re]s [Ratsaddle (Lodge)'*] half a hide of the fee of WahiU'. In Hysham [Isham] Henry de Ysham 2 hides and the third part of i hide of the fee of Daundeviir.'® There also Thomas Pyel I hide (and) a half (and) 2 small virgates and a half of the fee of Rameshe."' There also Geoffrey 6 small virgates of the fee of Huntingdon.'* In Cranesle [Cransley] Hugh Kyde I hide (and) a half and i bovate and a half '^ See note below on Withmale. " Domesday assigns to the count of Mor- tain 3 virgates in Orlingbury, which Fulcher (? Malsor) held of him. But it also assigns to him 3 virgates (held by Fulcher) in Pytch- ley, which are not accounted for there below, and may here be reckoned in Orlingbury. '* Fulcher (Malsor) held of the lord of Wahiir 2^ hides in ' Widmale ' according to Domesday. This Survey shows us that, of these, I hide was in Orlingbury and 1^ in Withmale. '* Between Pytchley and Hannington. '* This holding must have been made up of the 3 virgates which Walchelin held of the bishop of Coutances there and the I hide and 2^ virgates which Ralf held of Guy de Reinbuedcurt there, in 1086, which would amount together to 2 hides and i virgates. In 24 Ed. I. Henry de Isham is found hold- ing 1 1 hides here of Alexander ' Daunde- wye,' who held of Latimer (heir, through Foliot, of Reinbuedcurt). Thus ' Daunde- viir ' was only a mesne tenant. '^ This was the i hide and 2^ virgates which Domesday charges Eustace (the sheriff) with seizing from Ramsey Abbey, and which the Abbey had now regained. See Ramsey Cartulary, III. 55, 211, for Thomas Pyel's tenure there. '* Domesday assigns nothing there to Countess Judith. 382
