A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



There are 10 acres of meadow. T.R.E. 

 it was worth 100 shillings, afterwards the 

 same ; now 6 pounds. 



The same count holds CERLECOTE [Char- 

 Domesday entry mentions a priest. Wormleighton 

 certainly was in ' Honesberie ' Hundred, and so, 

 no doubt, were Warmington, Arlescote and Fenny 

 Compton. 



Nos. 3 and 4 are, also, if we judge by juxta- 

 position, to be identified with Fenny Compton, 

 for they occur in Domesday Book between Ratley, 

 which is rubricated as in ' Honesberie ' Hundred, 

 and Wormleighton, which, as we have already 

 seen, is in that Hundred. (The occurrence of 

 ' Moitone,' which intervenes, may, I think, be dis- 

 regarded.) Having travelled independently in our 

 argument thus far, we now turn our attention to 

 the hidage, and finding that the 4 hides 3 virgates 

 of No. 2, the 2 hides of No. 3 and the 3 hides I 

 virgate of No. 4 make up exactly 10 hides, we may 

 conclude that our identifications are justified. 



Coming now to No. 5, we find it following two 

 places, Fulready and Eatington rubricated as in 

 ' Tremelau ' Hundred, and coming before 'Cestre- 

 tone' (Chesterton), which we know to have been in 

 the same Hundred. I therefore identify this with 

 Compton Murdak (now Compton Verney), which, 

 in treating of No. I, we found good reason to con- 

 clude was in 'Tremelau' Hundred. Again, putting 

 our identification to the hidage test, we find that 

 the 7 hides of I and the 3 hides of this No. 5 make 

 up a lo-hide place. 



There remains only No. 7 with its I hide. 

 This, by the process of exhaustion, I might affirm 

 to be Compton Wyniates (called in Dugdale's map 

 ' Compton-in-the-HoIe '), always the smallest and 

 least important of the Comptons, except, perhaps, 

 Compton Scorfen. The difficulty, however, is that 

 Compton Wyniates does not afterward appear 

 in the Barony of Stafford, but is found to be held 

 by the service of half a knight's fee under Turchil's 

 descendants, the Ardcns, who held it under the 

 Earls of Warwick (Testa, p. 98). We should therefore 

 have expected to find it identical with one of the 

 first five, and more especially with one of Nos. 3, 

 4 and 5. The explanation I suggest is, that Alwin, 

 who held No. 7 under Robert de Stafford, was identi- 

 cal with Alwin who held No. 5 under Turchil. It 

 is always inconvenient to serve two masters, and it 

 is not unlikely that one of the Staffords passed 

 this estate over to be held under Turchil or the 

 Earls of Warwick. This would be all the more 

 probable if Alwin were, as his name may indicate, 

 a blood-relation of Turchil, the latter being son of 

 Alwin the sheriff. 



Before bringing this long note to a close, I may 

 say that the modern acreage and rateable value of 

 the respective Comptons, and their assessments 

 under Edward III., do, on the whole, support my 

 identifications. But, on the other hand, Mr. 

 Round does not think this explanation of how 

 Compton Wyniates came to be held of the Earls 

 of Warwick satisfactory. 



lecote]. 1 Saxi held it and was a free man. 

 There are 3 hides. There is land for 5 

 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and 7 serfs ; 

 and (there are) 14 villeins and 2 bordars with 

 5 ploughs. There are 2 mills worth (de) 21 

 shillings, and 12 acres of meadow. T.R.E. 

 and afterwards it was worth 50 shillings ; 

 now 4 pounds. 



IN FERNECUMBE HUNDRET 

 The same count holds SCIREBURNE [Sher- 

 borne]. Edric and Leueget held it and 

 were free. There are 2$ hides. There is 

 land for 6 ploughs. In the demesne are 

 1 1 ploughs and 4 serfs ; and 9 villeins with 

 a priest and 2 bordars have 2 ploughs. There 

 are 16 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it was 

 worth 60 shillings, and afterwards 40 shillings ; 

 now 50 shillings. 



The same count holds FULEBROC [Ful- 

 brook]. 2 Alfled held it and was free (liber a). 

 There are 2j hides. There is land for 8 

 ploughs. In the demesne are \\ ploughs, 

 and 4 serfs ; and (there are) 10 villeins and 

 3 bordars with 5 ploughs. There is a mill 

 worth (de) 12 shillings, and 8 acres of mea- 

 dow. T.R.E. it was worth 60 shillings, and 

 afterwards 40 shillings ; now 60 shillings. 



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The same count holds SNITEFELD [Snitter- 

 field]. 3 Sexi held it and was a free man. 

 There are 4 hides. There is land for 14 

 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and i O serfs ; 

 and 1 1 villeins with a priest and 4 bordars 

 have 6 ploughs. There are 1 2 acres of mea- 

 dow. T.R.E. and afterwards it was worth 4 

 pounds ; now IOO shillings. 



The same count holds CLAVENDONE 

 [Claverdon]. 3 Boui held it, and was a free 

 man. There are 3 hides. There is land 

 for 5 ploughs. In the demesne is I ; and 12 

 villeins with a priest and 14 bordars have 5 

 ploughs. There are 3 serfs, and 16 acres of 

 meadow. And i league of wood(land) when 

 it bears (cum oneraf\ is worth 10 shillings. It 

 (Claverdon) was worth 40 shillings ; now 4 

 pounds. 



1 Charlecote is in the modern Hundred of 

 Kineton, and being in the same corner of it as the 

 four preceding places, may well have been, as they 

 probably all were, in ' Tremelau ' Hundred. 



2 Fulbrook is a small place within a mile of 

 Sherborne and was doubtless in the same Hundred. 



3 Snitterfield, Claverdon, Preston and Kington, 

 being afterward in Barlichway Hundred, but not 

 in the Liberty of Pathlow, were doubtless in the 

 Domesday Hundred of ' Fernecumbe.' 



