A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE Godwin the priest i bovate of land similarly. At the feast of St. Martin the burgesses render to the king 1 2 thraves (trabes) of corn (annona) of which the abbot of Bertone [Burton] has 40 sheaves (garbce). There are in addition (adhuc] in the same borough 8 messuages with sac and soc. These belonged to JElgar ; now they are the king's. The king's two pennies and the earl's third which come out of Apletreu [Appletree] Wapentake in Derberie [Derbyshire] are in the sheriff's hand or rent 1 (censu) by the witness of the two shire (-courts). 2 Of Stori, 3 Walter de Aincurt's predecessor (anfecessor), it is said that without any one's leave he could make for himself a church on his own land and in his own soc and could assign (mlttere] his own tithes (decima) where he wished. In Snotingehamscyre and in Derbiscyre if the king's peace, given under his hand or seal, be broken, a fine is paid (emendatur) by 18 hun- dreds. Each hundred (pays) 8 pounds. The king has 2 parts of this fine (emendationis), the earl the third. That is, 12 hundreds pay to the king and 6 to the earl. If any one be exiled according to law for any crime, none but the king can restore peace to him. A thegn having more than 6 manors does not give relief of his land except 8 pounds to the king alone. If he has only 6 or less he gives 3 marks of silver to the sheriff as relief wherever he dwells in the borough or without. If a thegn having sac and soc forfeit his land, the king and earl have half his land and money between them, and his lawful wife with his legitimate heirs, if there be any, have the other half. Here are noted those who had soc and sac and thol and thaim and the king's dues (consuetudinem) of the two pennies. 4 The Archbishop of York over his manors, and the Countess Godeva over Newerca [Newark, Notts] Wapentake and Ulf fenisc over his land ; the Abbot of (Peter) Borough over Colingeham [Collingham, Notts] ; the Abbot of Bertune [Burton, Notts] ; Earl Hugh (of Chester) over Marcheton [Markeaton, Derby] ; the Bishop of Cestre [Chester] ; Tochi ; Suen the son of Suave ; Siward barn ; Azor the son of Saleva ; Ulfric cilt ; Elsi ; Illinge ; Lewin the son of Alewin ; the Countess Alveva ; the Countess Goda ; Elsi the son of Caschin over Werchesoppe [Worksop, Notts] ; Henry de Ferrers over Ednodestune [Ednaston, 1 The words ' vel censu ' are interlined.
- The meaning of this entry is that the revenue from the pleas of the Wapentake (of which the
king was entitled to two-thirds and the earl to one-third) was ' farmed ' by the sheriff at a fixed rent in 1086. The mention of ' the two counties ' should be observed as implying that the two county courts sat together for the Domesday Inquest, which would account for the surveys of Nottingham and Derby appearing together on this page (J. H. R.). 3 No such name occurs among Walter de Aincurt's predecessors in Notts or Derby. In all but one of his Derby manor* he was preceded by ' Suain cilt,' in I o out of his 1 7 Notts manors he was preceded by Tori, in 4 other cases by Suain, and in I other instance Swain and Tori are given to- gether as his predecessor. The latter may thus have held different parts of a divided inheritance, and ' Stori ' might represent a mistaken fusion of their names. (See Introduction, p. 304). 4 i.e., the two-thirds of certain profits, of which ' the third penny ' went to the earl. 328
