Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

18 ANCIENT AND
Uctred, and the land of Everuin, which Hugo, the sheriff,
quit-claimed to Walcherus, bishop of Durham, by the
king's writ ; and the burgessess who rent it, say that
they hold it under the king.
" The Earl of Morton has there fourteen mansions and
two stalls, in the Butchery* and the church of St. Crux.
" Nigel de Monevile has one house.
" Nigel Fossart had two houses, and holds them under
the king."
Waldin, Hamelin, Alwin, Richard de Surdeval, and
the Bishop of Constance are then mentioned as the holders
of nine houses.
William de Percy has fourteen mansions, and the church
of St. Mary. Of Earl Hugo, the same William has two
mansions of two bailiffs of Earl Harold ; but the burgessess
say that one of them had not been the earl's, but the
other had been forfeited to him.
" Hugo, son of Baldrick, hath four houses and twentynine
small mansions, at a rent, and the church of St.
Andrew's, which he bought."
The writers of Domseday then state, that Robert Malet
had nine houses ; Erneis de Burun four ; Gilbert Mominot
three; Barenger de Todeni ten; Osbern de Archis sixteen ;
Odo Balistarius four houses and one church; Richard, son
of Erfast, three houses and the church of the Holy
Trinity ; Montcafini one ; Landric, the carpenter, ten
and a half, which the sheriff made over to him. In the
time of King Edward, there were, they continue, "in
the archbishop's ward, 189 inhabited houses at a rent.
At present there are 100 inhabited, great and small;
besides the archbishop's palace and the canon's houses.
The archbishop hath as much in his ward, as the king in
his wards."
From the foregoing abstract of the record in Domesday
describing the city of York, it appears, that in the year
• Hodie; Shambles-