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and is worth 10 shillings. The same Ulvric 

 held it freely. 



From T(urchil) Ulsi holds 3^ virgates of 

 land. 1 There is land for I J ploughs. In the 

 demesne is half (a plough), and (there are) 



2 villeins and 3 bordars with i plough ; and 

 (there are) 4 acres of meadow. It was and 

 is worth 10 shillings. 



From (Turchil) Gilbert holds in BENTONE 

 [Bilton] 3 i virgate of land. There is land 

 for half a plough. It was worth 5 shillings ; 

 now 2 shillings. 



From T(urchil) Ordric holds in WALECOTE 

 and WILEBENE and CALDECOTE [Walcote 

 and Willoughby and Caldecote in Grand- 

 borough] 2 hides. There is land for I plough. 

 In the demesne however is I plough and 2 

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

 with i J ploughs. There are 6 acres of mea- 

 dow. It was worth 2O shillings ; now 30 

 shillings. The same Ordric held it freely. 



From (Turchil) Ulchetel holds in EPTONE 

 [Napton] 3 half a hide. There is land for 



3 ploughs. In the demesne is half a plough ; 

 and (there are) 4 villeins and 2 bordars with 

 i ploughs ; and (there are) 6 acres of mea- 

 dow. It was worth 20 shillings ; now 30 

 shillings. The same Ulchetel held it freely. 



From (Turchil) Alwin holds in SOCHEBERGE 

 [Upper Shuckburgh] * half a virgate of land. 

 There is land for half a plough. It is there 

 in the demesne with 2 bordars ; and (there are) 

 2 acres of meadow. It was and is worth 5 

 shillings. Ulwin held it freely. 



1 The place where this estate was is not given. 



1 I have no doubt that this identification is 

 correct, for these are still places in ' Meretone ' 

 Hundred, and there is no other name that could 

 be mistaken for it among places subsequently ap- 

 pearing in Marlon Leet. Moreover, as pointed 

 out in the note on the previous entry of Earl 

 Roger's estate, we have here the missing virgate 

 which makes Bilton a j-hide place. Dugdale sug- 

 gests that one scribe wrote ' Beu ' because that 

 was equivalent to 'Bel,' and that another scribe 

 mistook the ' u ' for ' n.' This however seems 

 far-fetched. It appears to me that at one stage or 

 another the names of places were often written 

 down from word of mouth by men who could not 

 easily distinguish the sounds of the liquid conso- 

 nants. 



3 See p. 321, note 5. 



4 As mentioned in a former note (p. 314, note 

 5) this is Upper Shuckburgh, being in 'Meretone' 

 Hundred, whereas Lower Shuckburgh was in 

 ' Honesberie ' and afterwards in Kineton Hundred. 



From T(urchil) Leuiet and Goduin hold in 

 WILEBEI [Willoughby] half a hide. There 

 is land for i plough. The same is in the de- 

 mesne, and (there are) 2 acres of meadow. It 

 was and is worth 10 shillings. The very 

 same men (Idem ipsi) held it. 



From T(urchil) Godric holds in NIWETONE 

 [Newton 6 ] 2 hides. 8 There is land for 2 

 ploughs. In the demesne is I, and (there 

 are) 4 villeins and 2 bordars ; and 2 acres of 

 meadow. It was and is worth 20 shillings. 

 Wlstan held it freely T.R.E. 



From T(urchil) Aide holds in NIWETONE 

 [Newton 6 ] half a hide. There is land for 

 half a plough ; yet i (plough) is there with 

 2 bordars. It was and is worth 10 shillings. 

 Godeva held it freely. 



From T(urchil) Ralf holds in NIWETONE 

 [Newton 7 ] half a hide. There is land for i 

 plough. There are 2 villeins and half an 

 acre of meadow. It was and is worth 2 



shillings. 



From T(urchil) Ulvric holds in HOLME 8 

 [? Biggin] i hide. There is land for half a 

 plough ; yet there is there I plough with 2 

 villeins and I borclar and I serf; and (there 

 are) 3 acres of meadow. It was worth 5 

 shillings; now 10 shillings. The same Ulvric 

 held it freely. 



fo. 24lb 



From T(urchil) Ralf holds in HOLME 8 

 [? Biggin] i hide. There is land for i plough. 

 There is i bordar with half a plough, and 

 (there are) 3 acres of meadow. It was worth 

 5 shillings ; now 3 shillings. Ulstan held it 

 freely T.R.E. 



6 In the parish of Newton and Biggin. 



6 Here begi ns a 1 ist of places ( down to ' Lilleford ') 

 afterwards found in Brinklow Leet, but in the 

 Domesday Hundred of ' Meretone,' I think, 

 ' Bomelau ' being more north and Marston being 

 undoubtedly in Marton Leet. Newton is now 

 considered to be in Clifton, but in the Subsidy 

 Roll of I Edward III. was in Brinklow Leet, 

 Clifton being in Marton Leet, as it had been in 

 ' Meretone Hundred ' at the time of Domesday 

 Book. 



7 See note 5 above. 



8 Dugdale, finding this place following after 

 Newton, identifies it as Biggin, which now appears 

 combined with Newton. I think he is right, as 

 the 3 hides recorded for Newton and the 2 hides 

 of Holme would make up a 5 -hide place. 



[The Testa de tievill (pp. 83, 98) shows that 

 ' Holm ' was held by the Ardens of the Earls of 

 Warwick. J.H.R.] 



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