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annate of Iboreeton ant) Iborele^. 



By Rf;v. Chas. Kerry. 



THE BURONS AND HORSLEY CASTLE. 



j]ORSLEY is included in Domesday in the "Land of 

 Ralph de Buron." The account is as follows : — 

 " In Horsalei. Turgar had 3 carucates of land 

 hidable. Land for 4 ploughs. There are now in demesne 

 2 ploughs and 19 villains and 4 borderers having 6 ploughs. 

 There are 60 acres of meadow. Wood pasturable, one mile in 

 length and one mile in breadth. In the time of King Edward, 

 it was worth 100 shill., now 60 shill. A knight of Ralph holds it." 

 The church is not mentioned in this record, neither are the 

 churches in the other lordships forming the Barony of Buron, 

 viz. — Weston, Denby, Hallam, and Herdebi ; but I think it hardly 

 follows that there was no church in any of these places, for it 

 appears from Dr. Cox's account of Denby church, that the arcade 

 between the nave and north aisle (ruthlessly destroyed in 1838) 

 was obviously of Saxon origin — and as Denby was only a chapelry 

 in the parish of Horsley, and was dependent on the mother 

 church for its spiritual ministrations, there can be no doubt but 

 a church existed at Horsley in Anglo-Saxon times. In Godfrey's 

 History of Lenton and its Priory, it is stated that the church of 

 Horsley was erected by the Burons, but on what authority this 

 statement is made I cannot find — indeed I do not think it pro- 

 bable ; for there is not one single vestige of Norman work to be found 

 in the present edifice. The earliest portion (erected about 12 10) is 



