THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



mesnc is I ; and (there are) 7 villeins and 8 

 bordars with 3 ploughs. There are 2 mills 

 worth (de) 2 shillings, and IO acres of meadow ; 

 wood(land) i league long and I broad, worth 

 2O shillings when it bears {pneraf}. The whole 

 was and is worth 30 shillings. Alward held it 

 (and) was free. 



From T(urchil) Almar holds LANGEDONE 

 [Longdon in Solihull]. 1 There are 2^ hides. 

 There is land for 2 ploughs. In the demesne 

 is half (a plough) ; and 6 villeins and 3 bordars 

 have I ploughs. There are 6 acres of meadow ; 

 wood(land) i league long, and a half broad. 

 It was and is worth 20 shillings. Arnul held 

 it T.R.E. 



From T(urchil) Alnod holds MACHITONE 

 [Maxstoke]. 3 There are 5 hides less I vir- 

 gate. There is land for 5 ploughs. There 

 are IO villeins and 4 bordars with 3 ploughs, 

 and 2 acres of meadow. (There is) wood- 

 (land) I league long and half (a league) broad. 

 It was worth 2O shillings ; now 40 shillings. 

 Ailmund held it freely T.R.E. 



From T(urchil) Roger holds MERSTONE 

 [? Marston Green in Bickenhill] ? There are 

 3 hides. There is land for 3 ploughs. In the 

 demesne is I ; and (there are) 4 villeins and 2 

 bordars with 3 ploughs. There are 2 acres 

 of meadow. It was worth 20 shillings ; 

 now 30. Eduin the sheriff held it freely. 



From (Turchil) the same Roger holds in 

 ELMEDONE [Elmdon] half a hide. There is 

 land for half a plough, yet there is there in 

 the demesne i plough, and 5 acres of meadow. 

 (There is) wood(land) I furlong long, and 

 another broad. It was and is worth 5 shil- 

 lings. Tochi held it freely. 



1 Longdon does not appear in the Subsidy Roll 

 of I Edward III., but was a well recognized manor 

 in the time of Dugdale. It is now only a farm. At 

 the time of Domesday it may have included Widney. 



a This was probably the original name of the 

 place, and is still I believe preserved in the form of 

 Mackidown, which is the name given to some part 

 of the parish. 



[The Domesday form clearly reappears in the 

 name of Helias son of Helias de ' Makinton,' 

 grantee of some land in the neighbouring parish 

 of Elmdon (Ancient Deed, C. 2025). The deed 

 is assigned to the reign of Hen. III. J.H.R.] 



3 Of the six references in the Warwickshire 

 Domesday to places named ' Merstone ' or ' Merse- 

 tone,' one has been dealt with already (see p. 3 1 5) ; one 

 situate in 'Tremelau' Hundred is certainly Marston 

 Butler (now Butler's Marston) ; and two, one held by 

 Robert de Olgi and one by Robert Dispensator, are 

 rubricated as in Coleshill Hundred. This ' Mers- 



From T(urchil), Bruning holds in WINCHI- 

 CELLE [? Wigginshill] * 3 virgates of land. 

 There is land for i plough, and the same is 

 there in the demesne, and 8 acres of meadow. 

 (There is) wood(land) 2 furlongs long, and as 

 much broad. It was and is worth 5 shillings. 

 The same (Bruning) held it freely. 



FromT(urchil), R. de Olgi holds in DERCE- 

 LAI [? Dosthill] 6 2 hides in pledge (in uadim'). 

 There is land for 3 ploughs. There are 7 

 villeins with 2 ploughs, and 2 serfs, and a 

 mill worth (de) 32 pence, and 10 acres of 

 meadow ; wood(land) 2 furlongs long and as 

 much broad. It was worth 30 shillings ; 

 now 40 shillings. Untain 8 held it. 



From T(urchil), Eduin holds in WITECORE 

 [Whitacre] 7 2 hides less I virgate. There 



tone,' coming between Maxstoke and Elmdon, is 

 probably like them in Coleshill Hundred. I have 

 no doubt that, coming as it does next to Elmdon, it 

 is that Marston which Dugdale divides into Wavers 

 Marston (now Marston Hall) and Marston Culi 

 (now Marston Green). The only other Marston 

 in Coleshill (now Hemlingford) Hundred is Lea 

 Marston, and, as will appear, I take that to be 

 represented in Domesday by the two ' Merstones ' 

 which, as mentioned above, were held by Robert 

 de Olgi and Robert Dispensator. None of the 

 Hemlingford Hundred Marstons was important 

 enough to appear by name in the Subsidy Roll of 

 I Edward III. Lea Marston appears as ' La Lee 

 juxta Kingsbury.' 



* This is Dugdale's identification and is, I sup- 

 pose, correct. Turchil's descendants the Ardens 

 afterwards had an interest in it. It is now a farm 

 in Sutton Coldfield on the border of Curdworth. 



B This is also Dugdale's identification, and also, 

 I think, correct. He says that the name is spelled 

 in later documents Derteulla (? for Derceulla) and 

 Derchetull. Also the de la Laundes had an 

 interest in it, and they were descendants of Chetel- 

 bern who was doubtless a relation of Turchil. 

 Further, however, the Marmions subsequently had 

 an interest here as they had in Barston (Bertane- 

 stone) which also Domesday records as held by R. 

 de Olgi in pledge. Dosthill is a village in Kings- 

 bury parish. 



6 Untain seems a curious name. I suggest that 

 it is a mis-reading of ' un' (= unus) tainus.' 



('Unton,' however, is met with below. J.H.R.) 



7 Whitacre appears twice in the Warwickshire 

 Domesday as ' Witecore,' once as ' Witacre,' and 

 once in the Northamptonshire Domesday as 'Wit- 

 acre.' There are recorded in the two ' Witecores ' 

 a hidage of 2^ hides, and in the two 'Witacres' I 

 hide. I therefore think that this ' Witecore ' re- 

 presents part of Nether Whitacre which is larger 

 than Over Whitacre. Dugdale assigns all three 

 entries to Nether Whitacre, but I think that 2^ 

 (= half 5) hides and I hide are the probable 

 allocation of the total. 



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