[Footnote 18: Appendix on 'the Legend of Hereward', _ut supra_.]
[Footnote 19: The names of the churches he bestowed on the Priory illustrate the constituents of the Honour of Bourne.]
[Footnote 20: The name of Ralf de Nevilla occurs in full in the Lincolnshire 'Clamores' (i. 376_b_), annihilating the old assertion that this famous surname is nowhere found in Domesday. (See my letter in _Academy_, xxxvii. 373.)]
[Footnote 21: It is specially interesting to trace his holding at Winwick, Hunts, which then lay partly in Northants. As 'Eustachius' he held _in capite_ at 'Winewincle' (i. 228), as 'Eustachius Vicecomes' at 'Winewiche' (i. 206), and as 'Eustacius', a tenant of the Abbot, at 'Winewiche' (i. 221). In the first two cases his under-tenants are given as 'Widelard[us]' and 'Oilard[us]', doubtless the same man. For 'Winewincle' we should probably read 'Winewicke'. See also p. 222, _infra_.]
[Footnote 22: _Inq. Com. Cant._, Ed. Hamilton, p. 111.]
We have, in the case of the see of Worcester, the means of testing some of the changes which took place among its tenants within a generation of Domesday. This is a survey of that portion of its lands which lay within the county of Worcester. Although printed by Hearne in his edition of Heming's Cartulary (fos. 141, 141_d_), it escaped notice, I believe, till I identified it myself in _Domesday Studies_ (p. 546). As it follows immediately on the transcript of the Domesday Survey of the fief, the fact that it represents a later and distinct record might, at first sight, be overlooked.
In spite of the importance of Heming's Cartulary in its bearing on the Domesday Survey, the documents of which it contains the transcripts have been hopelessly confused and misunderstood. Professor Freeman, dealing with them, came to utter grief,[1] and as for Mr De Gray Birch, he not only took this Survey _temp._ Henry I to be a portion of Domesday itself, which 'should be collated with the original MS. at the Record Office',[2] but even repeated Ellis's blunder,[3] that the names in a document _temp._ Bishop John [1151-7][4] represent 'the list of jurors for the Hundred of Oswaldeslaw' at the Domesday Survey.[5]
From a writ entered on fo. 136 we may infer that there had been some dispute between the Sheriff and the Church of Worcester as to the number of hides in the county for which the latter should be rated.[6] This Inquest or Survey was the consequence of that dispute, and resulted in the issue of the writ. Its date is roughly determined by the facts that Urse d'Abetot was dead when it was made, while the Count of Meulan is entered as a tenant, so that we may probably date it as later (at the earliest) than 1108, and previous to the death of the Count of Meulan in July 1118.[7]