DOMESDAY SURVEY It is not only, however, when dealing with Eyton's theories that the student of the Herefordshire Domesday has to be wary in his steps. Even in the volume of Feudal Aids,^^* where the arrangement, in the records them- selves, of the knights' fees under their hundreds makes confusion inexplicable, the holdings in Lyde (in Grimsworth Hundred) are hopelessly confused in the Index with those in Upper and Lower Lye, far away in Aymestrey (in ' Stretton ' Hundred), in spite of the names being written as ' Lude ' and ' Leye ' respectively. Thus ' Lude ' Muchegros (' Lude ' Beaumys) is identified with Upper Lye, and ' Lude ' Prior with Nether Lye, and the work to which he turns for help will lead him hopelessly astray. '" Vol. ii (1900), 587. 307
