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THE PRETENDED MARRIAGE OE WILLIAM DE WARREN.

The manor given by this charter is in Norfolk, and has now the name of West Walton or Walton Prior, and is situate in the hundred and half of Freebridge, in Marshland, on the banks of the Wisbeach river, and is thus described in Domesday, under the heading Terræ Willelmi de Warrenna, fo. 150—160 b. Hund. et dim. Fredrebruge.

Waltuna tenuit Toche liber homo tempore regis eduuardi. Modo tenet Sanctus Petrus. iiii carucatæ terræ, semper ix villani, &c. Tota valet xvii libras et x solidos. Tota habet iiii leugas in longo et ii quarentenas in lato, quicumque ibi teneat, et redit ii solidos de gelto de xx solidis. Hoc est de feudo Fedrici.

This notification applies to all the lands that were held by the Saxon Toche; and in Domesday, under Terræ Willelmi de Warene, in Cambridgeshire, f. 196 b, we have this statement of his degree of affinity to William de Warene.

In Trepeslav Hundredo. In Trumpinton tenet Willelmus iiii hidas et dimidiam. Terra est v carucarum. In dominio sunt iie et ix villani cum iiii bordariis habentes iii carucas. Ibi i molinum de xx solidis. Pratum v carucarum. Pastura ad pecora villæ et iiii socos. Valet et valuit vi libras. Tempore regis Eduuardi vii libras. Hanc terram tenuit Tochi de Eclesia de Ely, die quo rex Eduuardus fuit vivus et mortuus, nee potuit dare nec vendere, nec ab Eclesia separare. Hanc terram postea habuit Frederi, frater Willelmi.

Domesday again furnishes us in the survey of the lands of William de Warren, in Norfolk, with the proof that this brother of William de Warren was a Fleming, and this entry is of singular importance in subverting the fabled royal descent of Gundrada, as a daughter of William the Conqueror; it occurs in vol. ii. fol. 169, b. Hundredum de Grenehou.

In Pagrava tenet Sanctus Ricarius i carucatam terre (de fedo Fedrici) quam tenuit quidam liber homo tempore Regis Edwardi. Tunc iiii villani et semper, modo ii bordarii. Semper in dominio i caruca et semper inter omnes dimidia caruca. Tunc valuit xx solidos, modo xxv solidos.

In Acra tenuit quidam liber homo i carucatam terræ, semper vi villani et i bordarius et iii servi et i caruca in dominio. Tunc inter omnes iii carucæ, modo i. Silva ad xv porcos. Semper dimidium molinum. Tunc valet et semper xx solidos, hoc est de fedo Fretherici. Wimerus tenet.

The monastery designated by the name of Sanctus Petrus in these extracts from Domesday is that of Cluny, and that under the name of Sanctus Ricarius had anciently the Latin name of Centulum, and at the present day its site is the small

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