The Hamlet of AUington. 195 



villani, et 7 bordarii, cum 1 serfs; and there are 6 villans, 

 carucata. Ibi 20 acrse prati. and 7 bordars, with 1 carucate. 

 Pastura 6 quarentenia longa, et There are 20 acres of meadow. 

 3 quarentenis lata. The pasture is 6 furlongs long 



and 3 furlongs broad. 

 De hac terra habet unus miles Of this land a certain ' miles' 

 2 hidas, etibi 1 carucata. Totum has 2 hides, and there is 1 caru- 

 valebat 12 libras ; mode 15 libras. cate. The whole estate was worth 



£12 ; it is now worth £15. 



Many of the remarks already made on the Domesday entry 

 respecting All Cannings ' will apply also to this entry. The land 

 under the plough amounted to 7 carucates, or from three to four 

 hundred acres, about one third of the whole. This shows a high 

 state of cultivation, which accounts for the high assessment, the 11|^ 

 hides representing only about 100 acres per hide, whereas the 

 average extent of land comprised in a hide in Wiltshire was nearer 

 150 acres.* It will be observed moreover that within little more 

 than 20 years the value of the estate had increased from £12 to 

 £15, that is some 25 per cent. 



Alured of Marlborough, the owner of this Manor at the time 

 of the Domesday Survey, would seem to have been one of those few 

 Englishmen who were fortunate enough to escape the general confis- 

 cation, and permitted to retain their estates. It has been suggested 

 that, in this particular instance, the gifts, which included not only 

 some twenty or more estates in Wilts but also others in Surrey, 

 Hants, Somerset, Devon, and Herefordshire, were an acknowledg- 

 ment of the services of Alured of Marlborough as an active opponent 

 of Godwin's family. In Herefordshire he possessed, by gift it 

 would appear of Earl William, the Castle of Ewyas, and under this, 

 as the head of his Barony, many of his estates were held. Hence 

 the distinctive names of two of them in our own County, viz : — 

 Somerford Ewyas, and Teffont Ewyas. The chief of this family in 

 the time of Henry II., was Robert, who is styled " Lord of 

 Ewyas," and was living in 1194. He died no long time afterwards 



' See above, p. 5. 

 2 Domesday for Wiltshire, Introd. pp. xxxiv. — xxxvii. 



