A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Robert de Aluers, i house, rendering {de) 12 pence. Roger de Boscnorman, i house, rendering {de) 16 pence, Geoffrey de Wirce, 4 houses, rendering {de) 4 shillings. Geoffrey Alselin and his nephew Ralph, 2 houses, rendering {de) 2 shillings. Gilo, the brother of Ansculf, 3 houses, rendering {de) 32 pence. Gunfrid de Cioches, i house, rendering {de) 8 shillings. Three are waste. Suain, the son of Azur,* 21 houses, rendering {de) 10 shillings, per- taining to Stoches (Stoke Bruern). Ansfrid de Valbadon, 2 houses, rendering {de) 2 shillings, of the fee of the bishop of Bayeux. Baldwin, the moiety of a waste dwelling {mansio). Lefstan, i house, rendering {de) 4 pence. Osbern Gifard, i house, rendering {de) 4 pence. Godwin the priest, I house, rendering {de) i 2 pence. Durand the reeve, i house, rendering {de) 16 pence, of the fee of Robert Todeni. Dodin, 2 houses, rendering {de) 20 pence. One is (held) of the Countess Judith, the other of Winemar. Hugh de Widville* 2 houses, rendering {de) 32 pence. NoRTHANTONESCiRE renders 3 nights ferm {Jirmam) ' (that is) 30 pounds by weight. For dogs, 40 assayed {blancas) pounds of 20 (pence) to the ounce. For a gift to the queen, and for hay, 10 pounds and 5 (ounces of silver).* For a hawk, 10 pounds. For a sumpter horse, 20 shillings. For alms, 20 shillings. For the huntsman's horse, 20 shillings. For queen Edith's manors, 40 pounds. For Clive [King's Cliff], 10 pounds. The burgesses of Hantone (Northampton) render to the sheriff yearly 30 pounds and 10 shillings. This belongs to his ferm {Jirmam)!' The Countess Judith has 7 pounds of the issues of the same borough.
- This can hardly be other than the ' Swegen filius Azor,' who is among the tenants
of the see of Worcester called upon to pay relief nine years later (1095). See Feudal England^ p. 309.
- It was of this family, which is found at Grafton 120 years later, that sprang the queen
of Edward IV. Hugh also held, as ' Hugo de Witvile,' 5 houses in Leicester of Hugo de Grentmesnil.
- Originally provision for the King and his household in kind.
- Comparison with the Wiltshire payment on fo. 64b shows that the Queen's share of
this was five pounds.
- i.e. to the sum for which he is liable to the king as sheriff.
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