Note 8 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
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The details of Regenbald's possessions are given, and are of special value for collation with Domesday. They set him before us not only as a landowner in five different counties, but also as the first great pluralist. Sixteen churches, rich in tithes and glebe—one might really term them 'fat livings'—had passed into the hands of Regenbald 'the priest'. From the king's phrase, 'dedi et concessi', he would seem to have been not merely confirming an endowment by Regenbald, but granting lands which had escheated to himself.8