A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



The same bishop holds in BEDEFORD [Bid- 

 ford] * 2 J virgates of land, and Robert d'Olgi 2 

 of him. Ernulf and Ernegrin held it and 

 were free men. There is land for 3 

 There is i free man and I serf and I bordar 

 with i plough ; and 14 acres of meadow. 

 Wood(Iand) 2 furlongs long and i broad. 

 It was worth 12 pence ; now 10 shillings. 



The same bishop holds in BROME [Broom] * 

 4j hides, and Stephen (holds it) of him. Five 

 free men held it T.R.E. There is land for 

 4 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 ; and there 

 are 4 villeins and 10 bordars with 2 ploughs. 

 There are 14 acres of meadow. T.R.E. 

 it was worth 40 shillings, and afterwards 30 

 shillings ; now 60 shillings. 



V. THE LAND OF THE BISHOP OF 



COUTANCES 



The Bishop of Coutances holds half a 

 hide in FILUNGELEI [Fillongley], 6 and Lewin 

 (holds it) of him. There is land for 2 ploughs. 

 In the demesne is I, with 2 serfs ; and 5 

 villeins with 2 bordars have I plough. There 

 are 2 acres of meadow. (There is) wood 

 (land) 2 furlongs long, and I furlong broad. 

 It was worth 10 shillings ; now 30 shillings. 

 Alwin held it freely. 



VI. THE LAND OF THE CHURCH 



OF COVENTRY 



IN COLESHELLE [CoLESHILI,] HuNDRET 



The abbey of Coventry (Coventreu) holds in 

 FILUNGER [Fillongley] 8 half a hide. There is 

 land for 2 ploughs. There are 8 villeins and 

 6 bordars with 2 ploughs. There is a quarter 

 of a league of woodland ; when it bears 

 (oneratur) it is worth 10 shillings. T.R.E. 

 it was worth 7 10 shillings ; now 



30 shillings. 



1 Bidford is in Barlichway Hundred. 

 1 'Olgi' is interlined. 



3 Here is a space left blank in the original. 



4 Broom is a hamlet in Bidford, formerly 

 divided into King's Broom and Burnett's Broom. 

 This entry appears to relate to King's Broom. 



Fillongley is in Hemlingford Hundred. 



This would appear to have been the part which 

 Gerard de Alspath held temp. Henry III. from 

 the numb of Coventry by the name of Old 

 Fillongley. Fillongley appears in Domesday Book 

 as consisting of four half-hide estates, and it is 

 difficult to piece them together. 



7 Here is a space left blank, which should prob- 

 ably have contained the T.R.E. value, and the 

 word ' post.' 



IN MERETONE [MARTON] HUNDRET 

 The same (ipsa) church (holds) (G) 8 RANE- 

 BERGE [Grandborough]. There are 8 hides 

 and i virgate. There is land for 1 7 ploughs. 

 In the demesne are 2 ; and (there are) 27 

 villeins and II bordars and 4 serfs with 14 

 ploughs. There is a mill worth (de) 1 6 pence, 

 and 32 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it wa. 

 worth 6 pounds, and afterwards 100 shillings ; 

 now 8 pounds. 



The same (ipsa) church holds SURLAND * 

 [ ]. There are 6 hides. There is 



land for 12 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, 

 and 4 serfs ; and (there are) 26 villeins and 9 

 bordars with 8 ploughs. There are 40 acres 

 of meadow. T.R.E. it was worth 7 pounds, 

 and afterwards 4 pounds ; now 6 pounds. 



The same (Ipsa) church holds DERBINGERIE 

 [Birdingbury]. 10 There are 2 hides. There 

 is land for 4 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, 

 and 3 serfs ; and (there are) 4 villeins and 6 

 bordars with i plough. There are 6 acres of 

 meadow. T.R.E. it was worth 40 shillings, 

 and afterwards 20 shillings ; now 35 shillings. 



IN STANLEIE [STONELEIGH] HUNDRET 



The same (ipsa) church holds BILVEIE [Bin- 

 ley]. 11 There are 3 hides. There is land for 8 

 ploughs. In the demesne is I plough, and 4 

 serfs ; and (there are) 10 villeins and 6 bor- 

 dars with 5 ploughs. There are 8 acres of 

 meadow. (There is) wood(land) half a league 

 long, and i furlong broad. T.R.E., and now, 

 worth 60 shillings. 



This land Aldgid wife of Grifin held. 

 The abbey bought it from O(sbern) son of 

 Richard. 



8 The MS. is injured here. 



8 This should apparently be some place which 

 would afterward be in the leet of Marton. I 

 cannot however in the subsequent history of the 

 abbey find mention of any of its estates with a 

 name bearing the slightest resemblance to Surland. 

 I hazard the suggestion that, as it was obviously a 

 place of importance, it was that part of Coventry 

 known afterward as ' Coventry ex parte Prioris." 

 If it was, I make the further suggestion that the 

 reading should be ' Scirland," i .e. Shire-land, part 

 of Earl Leofric's lands. 



10 The uncouth form of the name is doubtless a 

 scribe's error. Birdingbury was one of the town- 

 ships given by Earl Leofric to the abbey. It was 

 afterwards in the leet of Marton, and therefore 

 doubtless in the Domesday Hundred of ' Meretone.' 



11 This name in a subsequent entry (p. 323), and 

 in other documents of later date, appears as Bilnei. 

 The Domesday scribe doubtless mistook ' n ' for 

 ' u,' which he wrote as ' v.' 



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