WARWICSCIRE 



IN THE BOROUGH OF WARWIC(K) the king has in his demesne 1 13 

 houses and the king's barons have 1 12, 1 from all of which the king has 

 his geld. 



The Bishop of Worcester (Wirecestre) has 9 messuages (masuras). 

 The Bishop of Chester 7. The Abbot of Coventry 36, and 4 2 (of these) 

 are (laid) waste to make room for the castle (profiler situm castellt). The 

 Bishop of Coutances has i house. The Count of Meulan (Mel/end] (has) 

 1 2 messuages. Earl Aubrey had 4, which belong to the land which he 

 held. Hugh de Grentemaisnil (has) 4, and the monks of Pilardintone 

 [Pillerton] have i from him. Henry de Fereres has 2. Harold 2. 

 Robert de Stadford [Stafford] 6. Roger de Ivri (iuri) 2. Richard the 

 huntsman (uenator) I. Ralf de Limesi 9. The Abbot of Malmesbury i. 

 William Bonuaslet i. William son of Corbucion 2. Geoffrey de 

 Magneville i. Geoffrey de Wirce I. Gilbert de Gant 2. Gilbert 

 Buili 3 i . Nicholas the crossbowman (balistarius) i . Stephen Stirman i . 

 Turchil 4. Harold 2. Osbern son of Richard I. Cristina i. Luith 

 the nun (monialis) 2. These messuages (tnasurce) are appurtenant to the 

 lands which the same (ipst) barons hold outside the borough and are 

 there taken into account (appre ciantur) . Besides these above-mentioned 

 messuages there are in the same (ipso) borough 1 9 burgesses, who have 

 19 messuages with sac and soc and all customary rights (consuetudimbus) 

 and thus had (them) T.R.E. 



In the time of King Edward the shrievalty (vicecomitatus) of 

 Warwic(k) with the borough and with the royal manors paid 65 pounds 

 and 36 sestars (sextaria) of honey ; or 24 pounds and 8 shillings in place 

 of all (dues) pertaining to honey. 



Now, what with (inter) the farm of the royal manors and the pleas 

 of the county, it pays yearly 145 pounds by weight, and 23 pounds for 

 the customary payment for dogs (consuetudine canum), and 20 shillings 

 for a sumpter-horse (summario), and 10 pounds for a hawk, and 100 

 shillings to the queen for a benevolence (gersumma). 



It also pays 24 sestars of honey by (cum) the greater measure and 

 from the borough 6 sestars of honey, a sestar to wit for 1 5 pence. 



1 Note the total, 225 i.e. two and a quarter hundreds but also see next note. 



3 As the total number of houses here recorded is 116, not 112, this entry no doubt means that 

 the 4 were part of the 36, so that the abbot is reckoned as having only 32. But see Introduction, p. 298. 



1 This certainly appears the correct reading, not ' Budi,' as the official edition reads. (The only 

 tenant in-chief whom this can represent is Gilbert son of Turold. J.H.R.) 



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