THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 





I. THE LAND OF THE KING 

 IN FEXHOLE HUNDRET ' 



The king holds BRAILES [Brailes]. Earl Ed- 

 win held it. There are 46 hides. There is 

 land for 60 ploughs. In the demesne are 6 

 (ploughs), and 12 serfs, and 3 bondwomen 

 (anclllis). And (there are) 100 villeins and 

 30 bordars with 46 ploughs. There is a mill 

 worth (de) 10 shillings, and 100 acres of 

 meadow. Wood(land) 3 leagues long and 

 2 leagues wide. T.R.E. it used to pay 1 7 

 pounds and 10 shillings. Now it is worth 

 55 pounds and 20 loads (summas) of salt. 



The king holds QUINTONE [Kineton] * 

 and WALEBORNE [Wellesbourne]. 3 King 

 Edward held (them). There are 3 hides. 

 There is land for * . In the demesne 



are 6 ploughs, and 3 serfs and 2 bondwomen. 

 And (there are) 93' villeins and 18 bordars 

 with 32 ploughs. There (are) 130 acres of 

 meadow. Wood(land) half a league and 2 

 furlongs long and 4 furlongs broad. This is 

 (shared) between the manor and the bere- 

 wick. 



The king holds BEDEFORD [Bidford]. 

 King Edward held it. There are 5 hides. 

 There is land for * . In the demesne 



are 5 ploughs, and 8 serfs and 5 bondwomen. 

 And (there are) 28 villeins and 13 bordars 

 with 1 6 ploughs. There are 4 mills worth 

 (tie) 43 shillings and 4 pence, and 150 acres 

 of meadow. Wood(land) 4 leagues long and 

 I league broad. 



The king holds STANLEI [Stoneleigh]. 

 King Edward held it. There are 6 hides. 

 There is land for 4 . In the demesne 



are 5 ploughs, and I serf and I bondwoman. 

 And 68 villeins and 4 bordars with 2 priests 



1 These three words are written above the 

 column, but in the Warwickshire Domesday the 

 rubricated Hundred can only be assumed to relate 

 to the paragraph by or over which it stands. The 

 only places certainly known to have been in Fex- 

 hole Hundred are Brailes and three places close to 

 it, namely Honington, Oxhill and Tysoe. 



a Doubtless Kineton, which was afterward the 

 head of an important Hundred and is near to 

 Wellesbourne. Dugdale did not see this, and be- 

 ing misled by the similarity of name says that 

 Wellesbourne was joined to Quinton in Glouces- 

 tershire (see p. 439), and yet he was puzzled at 

 the absence of Kineton (p. 431). 



1 Doubtless both Wellesbourne Hastang (now 

 Hastings) and Wellesbourne Mountford, which are 

 in Kineton Hundred. 



4 Here is a space left blank in the original. 



5 Literally, ' a hundred villeins less seven.' 



have 30 ploughs. There (are) 2 mills worth 

 (de) 35 shillings and 4 pence, and 20 acres of 

 meadow. Wood(land) 4 leagues long and 

 2 leagues broad. Feed for (past' ad) 2,000 

 swine. 



The king holds COLESHELLE [Coleshill]. 

 King Edward held it. There are 3 hides. 

 There is land for a . There 30 villeins 



with a priest and 13 bordars have 16 ploughs. 

 There (is) a mill worth (de) 40 pence, and 

 in Tameworde [Tamworth] 10 burgesses be- 

 long to this manor. Wood(land) 3 leagues 

 long and 2j leagues broad. 



The king holds COTES [Colon (End)]. 7 

 Earl Edwin held it. There is i hide. There 

 is land for 20 ploughs. In the demesne is I, 

 and 4 serfs. And (there are) 10 villeins and 

 6 bordars with 3 ploughs. There (are) 2 

 mills worth (de) 100 shillings, and 80 acres of 

 meadow. Wood(land) 3 furlongs long and 

 the same in breadth. Meadows and pas- 

 tures worth 4 pounds. Outside the borough 

 [Warwick] 100 bordars with their garden- 

 plots (hortulls) pay 50 shillings rent. This 

 land, with the borough of Warwic(k) and the 

 third penny of the pleas of the shire, used to 

 pay T.R.E. 17 pounds. 8 When Robert 9 re- 

 ceived it to farm it was worth 30 pounds. 

 Now (it is worth) the same, including all 

 things which belong to it. 



The king holds SUTONE [Button Cold- 

 field]. 10 Earl Edwin held it. There are 8 

 hides and I virgate of land. There is land 

 for 22 ploughs. One plough is in the de- 

 mesne, and 2 serfs. And (there are) 20 

 villeins and 4 bordars with 7 ploughs. There 

 (are) 10 acres of meadow. Wood(land) 2 

 leagues long and I broad ; when it bears 

 (onerat') it is worth 30 shillings. The whole 

 manor was and is worth 4 pounds. 



In OPTONE " [ ] Albert the clerk " 



holds 3 hides of the king in frankalmoin 

 (demos'). There are 2 priests with 2 ploughs, 

 and 10 villeins and bordars 13 with 4 ploughs. 



Here is a space left blank in the original. 

 i An unimportant suburb of Warwick, 

 s See Introduction, pp. 290, 291. 

 8 Probably Robert d'Oilli (J.H.R.). 



10 Well known as a royal borough. 



11 I cannot identify this place. Dugdale thinks 

 it was the part of Kenilworth, north of the church, 

 then called the 'High Town.' There are two 

 Uptons in the county, neither having any trace of 

 a connection with Stoneleigh. 



12 See Introduction, p. 281. 



" ' X inter villanos et bordarios.' 



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