Skule 12

Skule ‘of Basford’ (Notts.), fl. 1066
Male
CPL
4 of 5

Name

Skule
Skule 11
Skule 13

Summary

Skule 12 was a small landowner with two separate bovates near Nottingham. There is no record of their TRE valuation.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Nottinghamshire 10,23 Basford Escul Skule 'of Basford' - William Peverel - 0.13 0.00 0.00 A Map
Nottinghamshire 10,52 Basford Escul Skule 'of Basford' - William Peverel - 0.13 0.00 0.00 A Map
Nottinghamshire 30,28 Basford Escul Skule 'of Basford' - 1 king's thegn 'of Basford' - 0.13 0.00 0.00 A Map
Totals

Profile

A small and isolated holding at Basford in south Nottinghamshire, just outside the borough of Nottingham, belonged to a Skule who is unlikely to have been identical with any other TRE landowner of that name. Skule appears to have held 2 separate bovates at Basford. One of them appears in DB among the numerous postscriptal additions to the lands of the king’s thegns, where an entry for a holding of 1 bovate held TRE by Ælfric was afterwards modified by writing ‘and Skule 1 bovate. It is waste’ above the line. At the same time the scribe altered the form of the initial letter I at the start of the entry from the form used to designate sokeland to that employed for holdings of manorial status. When he came to add marginal notations about the status of holdings (which must have been after those alterations) he annotated the entry as two manors.

Skule’s other bovate at Basford was also subject to an editorial intervention in DB. It was first written as the twenty-third item in the return of William Peverel as ‘M. In the same place Skule had 1 bovate of land to the geld. Now it is in William’s custody.’ The entry was later deleted by a heavy black line, written after the rubricator had been through the text: the crossing-out runs over the rubrication of the initial letter I, a detail more clearly visible on the hard-copy facsimile than the digital version. The deletion was accompanied by the addition of a shortened version of the same information to another entry for Basford further on in William Peverel’s return, making use of a gap at the end of the last line in the entry. That insertion was made not by the main scribe of GDB but by the ‘correcting scribe’ (Gullick 1987: 103, penultimate entry in the list), plausibly the supervisor of the whole work. What seems a trivial adjustment, hardly worth making, highlights the fact that the vill of Basford was divided between two of Nottinghamshire’s shadowy 12-carucate hundreds, and that the correcting scribe thought it necessary to group the holdings in their correct hundreds (Roffe 1990b: 9).

Bibliography


Gullick 1987: Michael Gullick, ‘The Great and Little Domesday manuscripts’, Domesday Book: Studies, [ed. Ann Williams and R. W. H. Erskine] (London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1987), 93–112

Roffe 1992: D. R. Roffe, ‘An introduction to the Lincolnshire Domesday’, The Lincolnshire Domesday, [ed. Ann Williams and G. H. Martin] (London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1992), 1–31