286 Notes on the History of Great Somerford. - 
8 coscets, with 2 carucates. There is a mill paying 5 
shillings and 6 acres of meadow. The wood is 2 furlongs 
long, and 1 furlong broad. It was and is worth 40 
shillings. 
(c) Rents of Edward of Salisbury. 
Teodric holds of Edward 33 virgates of land in Somre- 
forde, and it paid geld forsomuch. The land is 1 carucate, 
which is there with 3 bordars, and 3 coscets. There is 
part of a mill paying 15 pence and 5 acres of meadow, and 
7 acres of pasture. In Malmesberie one house pays 15 
pence. It was worth 15 shillings; it is now worth 20 
shillings. Scirold held it in the time of King Edward. 
- Canon Jones adds “ The first is the half knight’s fee which was 
held 3 Ed. I. under the barony of Castle Combe by John Mautravers 
and hence the name Somerford Maltravers, the second is the half 
knight’s fee owned by John Tregoz under the barony of Ewyas — 
and hence this portion was anciently called Somerford Ewyas, the — 
third is the land possessed at the same date by the Earl of Hereford, 
a descendant of Edward of Salisbury, and is most likely the property — 
afterwards held by the nuns of St. Mary Priory, Kington St. 
Michael, under Bohun, Earl of Hereford.”’ The manner in which 
the property in the parish was held, according to the earliest deeds — 
which seem now to be in existence, at the beginning of the seven- — 
teenth century agrees with this division. 
Tue Matrravers Manor. 
(2) Mr. Scrope in his “ History of the Wiltshire Manors 
subordinate to the Barony of Castle Combe,” shows how the Manor 
of Somerford Maltravers was held on condition of knight’s service 
under the heirs of Humphry de L’Isle for many centuries. The 
property of Humphry passed with his daughter to the Dunstanville 
family, then by marriage to Sir Robert de Montfort, whose son 
sold this estate to Lord Badlesmere. We know nothing of the 
Robert mentioned in Domesday as holding Sumreford under 
Humphry, except that he occupied a considerable number of other _ 
manors in this part of the country. The Maltravers came in about 
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