[215] 'Et predictus Willelmus dedit predictas tres carucatas terre Osberto vicecomiti pro servicio unius militis.'

[216] Together with castle-guard of thirty knights at Newcastle.

[217] 'Post tempus domini Regis Willelmi Ruffi, qui eos feoffavit.'

[218] Testa, p. 69.

[219] 'Post Conquestum Angliae' (Liber Rubeus, p. 332).

[220] Const. Hist., i. 263.

[221] 'Et deinceps tres (milites) mihi habeat sicut antecessores sui faciebant in septentrionali parte fluminis Tamesie' (1091-1100).—Ramsey Cartulary, i. 234.

[222] Compare the Ely entry (supra p. 213) for 'superplus'.

[223] Could this have been Richard fitz Nigel himself?

[224] Ramsey Cartulary, i. 255. Compare with this expression 'in rotulo scripti', the Conqueror's command (infra), that the number of knights 'in annalibus annotarentur'.