b'Bishop WiltonLocal History Bulletin 13 -8 February 2006Domesday Book Entry RevisitedKate PrattAdditional Notes to the Domesday Book entry forIn Fridaythorpe, the archbishop 6 carucates Bishop Wilton from the talk by Professor Barbaraand 3 bovates.English In the same place, the king 1 carucate.In addition to the main entry discussed in BulletinIn the same place, the Count of Mortain 1 and 9, there is a further mention of Bishop Wiltona half carucates.in Domesday Book, in a section known as theIn the same place, Odo the Crossbowman 7 Recapitulation. This is a unique document, nothingand a half carucates.similar existing for any other county. It comprises aWe do not know who Odo the Arbalester or sort of index of landholders in the form of a summaryCrossbowman was, though his is a Norman name, for each administrative area or Hundred. Bishopthe same as that of King Williams half brother, Bishop Wilton parish is in Pocklington Hundred, and theOdo. The Kings other half-brother is Robert of major landowners are listed as follows: Mortain, who is named as one of the landholders in In Wilton, the archbishop 15 carucates. Fridaythorpe. Both the Kings half-brothers appear In Bolton the king 1 carucate. In the same with him on the Bayeux Tapestryplace, the archbishop 4 and a half carucates. In the Domesday Book entry for Bishop Wilton In Gowthorpe, the archbishop4 carucates.it states that the Archbishop of York, who owned In Youlthorpe, Odo the Crossbowman 4the manor of Wilton, had 15 censores; this is carucates. usually translated as rent-paying tenants. In his In the same place, the archbishop 2analysis of Domesday Book in the East Riding 1 , F W carucates. Brooks theorises that these censores are possibly In Greenwick, the archbishop 3 carucates. contractors brought in to bring back into cultivation land which had been laid waste by the Normans in Bishop Wilton manor also had land attached tothe infamous harrying of the North in the winter of it for taxation purposesin soke- at Fridaythorpe,1069-70. About one third of the vills in the East Riding which was in the Acklam Hundred. The summary forare listed as wholly or partially waste, and it took a this Hundred listed the following landowners: further 50 years after Domesday for the area to regain its former prosperity.1F W Brooks, Domesday Book and the East Riding (East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1966)212 BULLETIN 13'