In my paper on “Regenbald, Priest and Chancellor,”[49] I was able to trace, by combining the evidence of Domesday and of charters, the history of a “priest” of Edward the Confessor, who became the “priest” of his successor also, and held of him rich possessions in churches and lands. Another churchman who flourished both before and after the Conquest, and must have enjoyed the favour both of the Confessor and of the Conqueror, was Ingelric, first dean of the house of St. Martin’s-le-Grand, whose lands had passed before Domesday to Count Eustace of Boulogne. Mr. Freeman was interested in Ingelric as a “commissioner for redemption of lands,” but only knew him as a layman. Nor indeed is there anything in Domesday to suggest that he was other. To Mr. W. H. Stevenson belongs the credit of proving that he was a priest by printing “an old English charter of the Conqueror,” confirming the foundation of St. Martin’s-le-Grand, in which the “cujusdam fidelis mei Ingelrici scilicet peticioni adquiescens” is equated by “æfter Ingelrices bene mines preostes.”[50] It was similarly as “minan preoste” that William had described Regenbald. The charter I shall now deal with was not known to Mr. Stevenson, and has not, I believe, been printed. It is of real historical interest, apart from the fact that among its witnesses we find Ingelric “the priest.” Mr. Freeman held that the reconciliation between the Conqueror and the Abbot of Peterborough--Brand, the Englishman, whose election had been confirmed, even after the Battle of Hastings, by the ætheling Eadgar--was one of the earliest events after William’s coronation.[51] To that episode I do not hesitate to assign a charter entered in the Peterborough ‘Liber Niger’ belonging to the Society of Antiquaries. It is a general confirmation of the abbey’s possessions, “petente abbate Brand,”[52] and is witnessed thus: Huic testes affuere: Aldredus Eboracensis archiepiscopus; Wlwinus Lincoliensis episcopus; Merlesuen vicecomes; Ulf filius Topi; Willelmus comes; Willelmus Malet; Ingelri[cus] presbyter. Here we have first Ealdred, by whom William had been crowned; then Wulfwig, bishop of Dorchester, here described as bishop “of Lincoln.” The mention of Mærleswegen is of special importance, for this great English noble had been left in charge of the North by Harold on the eve of the Battle of Hastings, and rose in revolt against William in the summer of 1068. Here we have evidence of his presence at William’s court, when his movements were unknown to Mr. Freeman. We see, moreover, that he was still sheriff (of Lincolnshire). “Ulf filius Topi,” who appears in other Peterborough charters, had given “Mannetorp,” Lincolnshire, and other lands to the abbey.