sentences:  Baines' "History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York" states that William the Conqueror gave the Meaux lordship to Gamel, who was born in Normandy at Meaux, a name he gave to the Holderness settlement which he populated with his own people.However, the "Domesday Book" records that in 1066 Ulf Fenman held the lordship, this transferring in 1086 to Drogo of la Beuvrière, who was also Tenant-in-chief to William I. Meaux is recorded in the "Domesday Book" as "Melse".At the time of the survey the settlement was in the Middle Hundred of Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire.