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men," which was two years before he came to the throne. Certain it seems that 

 at the time of the Conquest there was ahready a castle there, and which at the 

 time of the Doomsday Survey (1080-6) was in possession of Alured de Marleborough 

 who had refortified it. Mr. FlaveU Edmunds has given tha following passages 

 from the Survey which refer to Ewias, with the appended translations and notes : — 

 The references to Ewias in Domesday Book are two, each of which is fuU and 

 suggestive. The first of these is Section x., and is curious as giving the ancient 

 name of one of the Hundreds, which has long been disused, viz., "Cutestorn." 

 This would seem to have been partly, if not wholly, identical with the modem 

 hundi-cd of Webtree, itself an early Saxon name, meaning the trees or woodland 

 of Wiba, some Anglian thegn who has left his name also to the place on which he 

 resided, at "Wibelege," now "Weobley. The tenth in the list of Herefordshire 

 landowners whose possessions are given in Domesday Book is Roger de Laci, who 

 seems to have been son of the founder of the branch of that great and powerful 

 family which was settled in Herefordshire. The list of his possessions in Cutestorn 

 hundred is headed with the following description of Ewias : — 



Extract. 



In Cvtestom hd. 



TeiTa Eogerii De Laci. 



X. In Castellaria (a) de Ewias ded. "Wills (b) com. Walterio de Laci, iii. 

 carucatas (c) trse. wastas, 



Rogerius de Laci fili. ei. tent. eas. Wills. Osbn. de eo. 

 In dnio. hnt. ii. car. iiii. ^V■alenses reddies. ii. sectar (d) mellis. hnt. i. car. ibi 

 hnt. iii. servos, ii. bord (e) h. tra. val xx. sol. 



Isd. Rogs. ht. una. tra. Ewias dicta in fine Ewias h. tra. n. ptnt. ad 

 Castellaria. neq. ad Hvnd. De hac tra. ht. Rogs. xv. sectar. meUis. xv. pore. 

 qdo. hoes. sunt. ibi. placita sup. eos. (f) 



TRANSLATION. 



In Cutestorn hundred. The lauds of Roger de LacL 



In the castlery of Ewias Earl "William gave to "Walter de Laci four carucates 

 of waste land. 



Roger de Laci, son of him, holds these (lands). William Osborne (holds) from 

 him. 



In dominion they have two carucates. Four Welshmen rendering two sectars 

 of honey have one carucate there. They have tliree slaves. Two bordars have 

 lands value 20s. 



The same Roger has one land called Ewias, on the boundary of Ewias. This 

 land does not pertain to the castlery nor to the hundred. Out of that land Roger 

 has fifteen sectars of honey. Fifteen swine, when men are there, are required 

 from them. 



NOTES. 



(a) Caitellaria—l have coined the word castlery, as best expressing the tract 

 of land immediately appertaining to a castle. 



