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From: Sandy McDougall <>
Subject: WALTER GIFFARD
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:26:46 -0800

To David Collyer

At the time of Domesday, WALTER GIFFARD , as Chief landholder, held nearly
38,000 acres combined within eleven Hundreds.
Of these Walter held for himself:

In Ixhill Hundred Long Crendon 20 hides 1 hide = c. 120 acres
Chilton 10 "
Dorton 5 "

In Ashendon Hundred Lower Winchendon 10 hides
Pollicot 10 "

In Mursley Hundred Great Harwood 10 hides
Whaddon 10 "

In Seckloe Hundred Newton Longville 10 hides

The remainder of his lands were held from him by others:

In Stone Hundred Hugh of Bolbec in Hartwell
Hugh Great Kimble
Thurstan, son of Rolf in Great Missenden

In Desborough Hundred Herbrand in Fawley

In Ixhill Hundred Hugh Addington
Roger Easington

In Ashendon Hundred Richard in Ashendon
Arnulf & Geoffrey in Chearlsey
Ralph Wotton Underwood

In Cottesloe Hundred Hugh of Bolbec Whitechurch
Robert in Littlecote
Thurstan in Burston

In Yardley Hundred Ralph in Pitstone

In Mursley Hundred William in Swanbourne
Walter of Bec Singleborough
William in Mursley

In Stotfold Hundred Berner in Lamport
Robert Akeley
Hugh Lillingstone (Dayrell)
Thurstan in (Maids) Moreton
Hugh in Leckhampstead

In Rowley Hundred Hugh in Beachampton
Hugh also holds Bourton
Ralph in Lenborough
Hugh in Hillesden

In Lamua Hundred Ralph Edgott

In Seckloe Hundred Ralph in (Little) Woolstone
the monks of St. Peter's in (Great) Woolstone
Ivo in Loughton
Walter Hackett in Bradwell
Hugh in (Great) Linford

In Bunsty Hundred Hugh Ravenstone
Ralph in Lavendon

In Moulsoe Hundred Hugh in Harmead
Richard Moulsoe
Hugh in Broughton
Hugh in Milton (Keynes)
Ralph in Brickhill
Robert in Brickhill
Source:
Domesday-Buckinghamshire

Burke, in Extinct and Dormant Peerages says:
At the time of the survey he himself possessed two lordships in Berkshire,
one in Wiltshire, one in Somersetshire, one in Huntingdon, five in
Cambridgeshire, nine in oxfordshire, nine in the co. of Bedford,three inn
Suffolk, twenty-eight in in Norfolk, and forty-eight in Buckinghamshire.

Sandy

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