Note 34 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES

Ibid., 778-80. Mr Freeman spoke of him as 'a kind of centre' for the inquiry, and stated that in Domesday 346b we have 'Turoldus vicecomes' as a benefactor of Spalding priory. This is an error, for the words there are 'dedit S. Gutlaco' (i.e. Crowland). He also urged that 'we must not forget the Crowland tradition' about him 'preserved by the false Ingulf'. But the fact is that 'Ingulf' made him into two (1) 'Thuroldus Vicecomes Lincoln', whose benefaction to Crowland (D.B., i. 346b) was confirmed in 806 (!) and subsequently (pp. 6, 9, 15, 19), (2) 'quidam vicecomes Lincolniæ, dictus Thoroldus ... de genere et cognatione illius vicedomini Thoroldi qui quondam', etc. (p. 65). It is the one living in '1051', to whom the Spalding foundation was assigned.