Note 1439 — Chapter X · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE DEATH OF THE ÆTHELING TO THE DEATH OF THE KING.[1258] 1057–1066.

Sim. Dun. Hist. Eccl. Dun. iii. 14 (X Scriptt. 37). “Quidam vocabulo Copsi, qui sub Tosti totius comitatûs curam gerebat.” Gest. Regg. Angl. a. 1072 (X Scriptt. 204). “Rex Willelmus comitatum Osulfi commisit Copsio, qui erat partis Tostii Comitis viro consiliario et prudenti.” In Domesday also (298 b et al.) he figures as Copsi, but his estates do not seem to have been very large. His gifts to the Church of Durham are mentioned by Simeon (X Scriptt. 37). The Norman writers, as William of Poitiers (148 ed. Giles), turn his name into Coxo, out of which Thierry, by way of being specially Teutonic, has made Kox. (Cf. “Alwinus Coc Bedellus” in Domesday 190, a prudent man who held at the Survey what he had held T. R. E.) They also call him “Comes,” though Simeon (X Scriptt. 37) seems, even under William, to give him no higher title than “Procurator” = Gerefa?