A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



The duplicate entries which are sometimes found in the great Survey 

 are of value for the light they throw on the methods of its compilation. 

 In Warwickshire the only certain example is afforded by Clifton, which 

 the scribes, as they sometimes did in such cases, dealt with in two places. 

 Turchil's father, jElfwine the sheriff, had bestowed the manor on the 

 church of Coventry, which had been despoiled of it by Earl Aubrey, 

 whose land, at the time of the Survey, was in the king's hands. The 

 scribes, when recording the Coventry manors, added at the foot of the 

 column an entry dealing with the case ; but they reckoned the manor 

 among those that Earl Aubrey had held, although a marginal note 

 alluded to the church's claim. We observe, on comparing the two 

 entries, that the case for the church is distinctly stronger in the first 

 of the two, the validity of ^Elfwine's grant and the wrongfulness of 

 the earl's action being clearly expressed : 



CHURCH OF COVENTRY EARL AUBREY 



fo. r)8b f- J 39b 



' Huic ascclesias dedit Alwinus vicecomes ' Hanc terram dedit Alwin aecclesiae de 



Cliptone conccssu regis E, et filiorum iuorum Coventreu pro anima sua T.R.E. Comes 

 pro anima sua et testimonia comitatm. Comes Albericus abstulit.' 

 Albericus hanc injuste invasit et aecclesias 

 abstulit.' 



In the first of these entries we seem to be hearing the monks' 

 own story, while the second appears to be a marginal note based upon 

 the first. 



Another case in which an estate is almost certainly entered twice 

 over is that, as Mr. Carter points out, of the 2\ hides held by Leofwine 

 at Flecknoe. These are first entered as held of the Bishop of Worcester 

 by Leofwine, and then, at the end of the Survey, appear as held by Leof- 

 wine (as he said, but failed to prove) of the bishop. Here, the tenure 

 being disputed, a duplicate entry, it would appear, was made. 



Isdem episcopus tenet in Flechenho ii Lewin' tenet de rege ii hidas et dim. virga- 



hidas et dim. virgatam terrae, et Lewin de eo. tam terrae in Flechenho. Terra est ii car. 



Terra est ii car. Ibi sunt ii villani et i bor- Ibi est una cum ii villanis et i bordario et vi 



darius cum i car. Ibi vi acre prati. T.R.E. et acris prati. Valuit x solidos. Modo xx. 



post valebat x solidos. Modo xx" solidos solidos (fo. 2440). 

 (fo. 238b). 



I have spoken of this dispute on p. 288 above. 



It is thought that the two entries under ' Bertanestone ' (Barston) 

 may be duplicates, for the two surveys would be identical were it not 

 that the first gives 9 hides and 1 1 ploughlands, and the second 10 hides 

 and i o ploughlands. But the one shows us ' R. de Olgi ' holding the 

 manor of Turchil, while the other makes Robert the Despenser hold it 

 in demesne. The alternative, of course, is that we are dealing with two 

 moieties of what was one estate, as is certainly the case at Shuttington. 



Bridlington Priory, which was founded by his son and closely connected with his house. It seems 

 difficult to account for the gift in any other way, but the manorial evidence does not seem to support 

 the identification. 



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