V.-CAMPSALL. Askern, 849 acres; Campsall, 1776 acres; Fenwick, 2371 acres; Norton, 2320 acres; Moss, 1638 acres; Sutton, 763 acres. PRE-NORMAN. CAMPSALL Parish, 9717 acres. Value. Value. mill at Norton (a water mill) to Nostell where his wife was buried. Their son Jordan gave a later mill (a windmill) to the monks of Pontefract. Neuuose, which I read as Moss, was (like Norton and a moiety of Campsall) in the hands of Elsi (or Alsi), the preNorman lord, who continued to hold it with Norton, though in the inferior position of tenant. But unlike Norton it was returned as "waste," that is void and unoccupied. It could not have been "wasted" by any military operations, for the neighbouring manors (through one of which it must have been reached) were all flourishing and thriving, in some cases, indeed, much above the average. The number of the ploughs they maintained had also generally increased, while the royal revenue obtainable from them was larger than had previously been the case. All which goes to negative the idea that there had been any military occupation of the district; while it is clear that such a manor as Moss could not have been selected for a harsh military treatment from which its neighbours were exempt, for had such been the case, the pre-Norman owner would not have been allowed to retain even a qualified property in it; while moreover it is specially recorded that the value of the manor was "now 6s., the rent of a mill which is there." Had the place been wasted," the mill would have suffered equally with the manor. We can therefore arrive at but one conclusion, that the "Wasta" of the record had a passive sense only, meaning void; desolate and void, because empty and unoccupied. The whole of Moss comprised 2415 acres, of which 777, with neither houses nor population, paid tithe to Kirk Bramwith. VII. DARRINGTON. Cridling Park, 843 acres; Darrington, 3111 acres ; Stapleton, 1633 acres. PRE-NORMAN, DARRINGTON Parish, 5587 acres, DOMESDAY. West Hardwick and Nostell are extra-parochial; Ackton, 968 acres; Featherston, 1380 acres ; Purston Jaglin, 1021 acres; and Whitwood, 1082 acres. FEATHERSTON Parish, 4451 acres. absorbed in the Augustinian Priory at Osele (Nostell). There are two entries in the Survey with respect to Whitwood. The earlier is squeezed in unnecessarily at the top of the dorse of 315, in the space which had been left for the rubricator to insert the name of the Wapentake. This entry had less detail, though it gave the additional information that the manor could maintain 4 ploughs. But the second names the tenant Roger. Only a single value is given in the Recapitulation. IX.-FRYSTON. Wheldale and Waterfrystone, 2018 acres; Ferrybridge, 926 acres. FRYSTON Parish, 2944 acres. |