A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



and 23 villeins with a priest and 9 bordars is land for 3 ploughs. There are 2 villeins ; 



have 8 ploughs. There are 8 acres of and there is i furlong of oaks in length and 



- J - - J - r - L J ' u T - : - u 5 shillings. Alsi held 



meadow. It was worth 4 pounds, and after- 

 wards 10 shillings ; now 3 pounds. Ulwin 

 held it. 



IN STANLEI [STONELEIGH] HUNDRET 

 Rainald holds of the earl in ULUESTONE* 

 [ ] i virgate of land. There is land for 



half a plough. There is i villein. It is worth 

 5 shillings. Elmund held it. 



Outi holds of the earl 3 hides in QUATONE 

 [Quat (in Shropshire)]. 2 There is land for 

 12 ploughs. In the demesne are 4, and 5 

 serfs ; and (there are) 19 villeins and 14 bor- 

 dars with 10 ploughs. There is i acre of 

 meadow. (There is) wood(land) 2 leagues 

 long and I broad ; and a mill worth (de) 2 shil- 

 lings. It was worth 6 pounds; now 100 

 shillings. The same Outi held it freely. 



Walter holds of the earl i hide in RAMES- 

 LEGE [Romslcy (in Shropshire)]. 2 There is 

 land for 7 ploughs. In the demesne is I, 

 and 2 serfs ; and (there are) 7 villeins and 7 

 bordars with 3 ploughs. (There is) wood(land) 

 I league long and half a league broad. It 

 was worth 30 shillings ; now 40 shillings. 

 Achi held it freely. 



Ralph holds of the earl 5 hides in RIGGE 

 [Rudge (in Shropshire)]. 2 There is land for 

 7 ploughs. In the demesne is I, with i 

 serf; and (there are) 3 villeins and 4 bordars 

 with 2 ploughs. It was worth 60 shillings ; 

 now 40 shillings. Edric held it freely of 

 Earl Leofric (Lcurico). 



The same Ralph holds of the earl in SCIP- 

 LEI [Shipley (in Shropshire)] a I hide. There 



1 I do not like to follow Dugdale in identifying 

 this place with Wolston (Ulvricetone) mentioned 

 three entries further back, because (i) Wolston 

 must, as mentioned in the previous note, almost 

 certainly have been in'Meretone' Hundred ; (2) 

 Uluestonc and Ulvricetone having both been held 

 by Ailmund or Elmund T.R.E. and by Rainald 

 as Domesday tenant under Earl Roger, would, had 

 they been in one place, have been lumped to- 

 gether as one estate, and would not have required 

 two separate entries. I think it is some obscure 

 little estate in the Leet or Hundred of ' Stanlei,' 

 long ago merged in some more important place. 



3 Eyton (Domesday Studies: An Analysis and 

 Digest of the Staffordshire Survey, p. z) considers 

 that at the time of Domesday these four Shrop- 

 shire manors of Earl Roger were probably, as 

 were three others certainly, in Staffordshire. Fifty 

 years later they were undoubtedly in Shropshire, 



breadth. It is worth 

 it freely T.R.E. 



XIII. THE LAND OF EARL HUGH 3 

 IN TREMELAU HUNDRET 



Earl Hugh holds I hide and 3 virgates of 

 land in PILARDETUNE [Pillerton Priors], 4 

 and Waleran of him. There is land for 2 

 ploughs. In the demesne is i with i serf; 

 and (there are) 2 villeins and 2 bordars with i 

 plough. It was worth 2O shillings ; now 30 

 shillings. Hugh the chamberlain (camerarius) B 

 held it freely. 



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XIIII. THE LAND OF EARL 

 AUBREY 8 



IN CoLESHELLE [CoLESHILL] HUNDRET 



Earl Aubrey (jflbericus) held of the king 

 ETONE [Nuneaton]. Harding held it T.R.E. 

 There is land for 26 ploughs. In the 

 demesne are 3, and 3 serfs ; and (there are) 

 44 villeins and 6 coliberts and 10 bordars with 

 1 6 ploughs. There is a mill worth (de) 32 

 pence, and 20 acres of meadow. (There is) 

 wood(land) 2 leagues long and i^ leagues 

 broad. T.R.E. it was worth 8 pounds, 

 and afterwards 3 pounds ; now 100 shillings. 



IN MERETONE [MARTON] HUNDRET 



The same (ipse) earl held CLIPTONE [Clif- 

 ton upon Dunsmore]. Alwin the sheriff 

 held it T.R.E. and he with his land was 

 free. There are 5 hides. There is land for 

 1 6 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 ploughs ; 

 and 12 villeins with a priest and 20 bordars 

 have 7 ploughs. There are 2 mills worth (de) 

 1 1 shillings, and 8 acres of meadow. T.R.E. 

 and afterwards, it was worth 40 shillings ; 

 now 4 pounds. 



This land Alwin gave to the church of 

 Coventry for (the repose of) his soul (pro ant- 

 ma sua) T.R.E. Earl Aubrey took it away. 7 



where they now remain, being all in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bridgenorth. Romsley and Shipley, 

 as ' Hremesleage ' and ' Sciplea,' occur together 

 in the will of Wulfric Spott, among the estates 

 bequeathed to Burton Abbey. 



a Of Chester. 



Otherwise Over Pillerton or Little Pillerton. 



* He was chamberlain to Edward the Confessor. 



See Introduction, p. 276. 



7 This paragraph is written in the margin by 

 the side of the description of ' Cliptone,' to which 

 it relates (see Introduction, p. 296). 



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