[856] This has been strangely misunderstood by Mr. Eyton in his analysis of the Staffordshire survey. See my paper in Domesday Studies.
[857] Domesday, ii. 280, 294. We read of Alan's heir, Conan, in 1156, "Comiti Conano de tercio denario Comit' ix li. et x sol" (Rot. Pip, 2 Hen. II., p. 8). It is a singular circumstance that Robert de Torigny alludes to this under 1171, when, at the death of Conan, "tota Britannia, et comitatus de Gippewis [Ipswich], et honor Richemundie" passed to the king,—and still more singular that his latest editor, Mr. Howlett, identifies "Gippewis" with Guingamp (p. 391).
[858] Will. Rufus, i. 40.
[859] Domesday, i. 38 b, 101, 87 b, 186 b, 253; ii. 294 b.
[860] Baronia Anglica, pp. 137, 138.
[861] Exeter, p. 55.
[862] Const. Hist., i. 139.
[863] The Palatinate of Chester is, of course, anomalous, and does not, strictly, tell either way.
[864] In the third and fifth years the Earl of Arundel is entered as receiving the third penny "per breve regis."
[865] Dialogus de Scaccario, ii. 17.