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Hemingbrough History |
 | | Howdenshire, by some early and unknown grant, belonged to the rich monastery of Peterborough, but was taken from it by Edward the Confessor for some reason. |
 | | At the time of the Doomsday Survey, Howdenshire was the property of William of St. Calais, Bishop of Durham and his successors, by the gift of William the Conqueror. |
 | | Hemingbrough when the survey was taken, was in the king's hand, having been previously in that of Tosti, or, as the charter of William to Durham asserts, in those of the Earls Tosti and Siward, showing that it was an appendage of the earldom. |
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