A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



[? Lea-Marston] ' and Robert the huntsman 

 (venator) * from him. There is land for 2 

 ploughs. In the demesne is I, and 2 serfs; 

 and 4 villeins have 2 ploughs. There are 6 

 acres of meadow ; wood(land) 4 furlongs long, 

 and I broad. It was worth 10 shillings; now 

 2O shillings. Alvric held it freely T.R.E. 

 Robert bought this estate from him by leave 

 (Kcentia) of King William. 



fo. 242b 



XXII. THE LAND OF ROBERT DE 

 STATFORD 8 



IN BOMELAU HUNDRET 



Robert de Stadford holds of the king 7 

 hides in WARA [? Churchover]. 4 There is 

 land for I 2 ploughs. In the demesne are 4 ; 

 and 14 villeins and 5 bordars have 5 ploughs. 

 There are a mill (fie) worth 2 shillings, and 4 

 acres of meadow. It was worth 20 shillings ; 

 now 100 shillings. Waga held it freely 

 T.R.E. 



The same Robert holds 7 hides in UOL- 

 WARDE [Wolford]. 6 There is land for 10 

 ploughs. In the demesne are 8 and 4 serfs ; 

 and 8 villeins and 8 bordars, with a priest, 

 have 6 ploughs. There is a mill worth (de) 

 20 pence. It was worth 20 shillings ; now 

 100 shillings. Waga held it freely. 



The same R(obert) holds 5 hides in BURDIN- 

 TONE [Burmington]. 7 There is land for 8 

 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 ; and (there 

 are) 1 2 villeins and 8 bordars with 6 ploughs. 

 There is a mill worth (fir) 10 shillings, and 12 

 acres of meadow. It was worth 60 shillings ; 

 now 100 shillings. Godwin held it freely. 8 



1 See notes on pp. 319, 323. 

 8 This word is an interlineation. 



3 The numerous manors held by Robert de 

 Stafford in Warwickshire require to be compared 

 for identification with (l) the detailed return of 

 his knights' fees in I 1 66, which is found in The 

 Red Book of the Exchequer, pp. 264-8 ; (2) the list 

 of his Warwickshire fees at a later date in The Red 

 Book, pp. 612-3 ; (3) the valuable list of his 

 Warwickshire fees and their tenants in Testa de 

 Nevill, p. 96. J.H.R. 



4 See note on p. 309. (This ' Wara ' is ' Wav 

 Rog[eri] ' in the Testa. J.H.R.) 



6 Probably Great Wolford ; see note on p. 318. 

 It was probably in Barcheston Hundred. (Both 

 Great and Little Wolford appear in the Testa as 

 held of Stafford. J.H.R.) 



8 No number stated. 



7 Burmington appears in later records as part of 

 the Barony of Stafford. It lies between Wolford 

 and Barcheston, and was doubtless in Barcheston 

 Hundred. 



1 This last sentence is written in the margin. 



IN FEXHOLE HUNDRET 



The same R(obert) holds TIHESHOCHE 

 [Tysoe]. There are 23 hides. There is 

 land for 32 ploughs. In the demesne are II, 

 and 9 serfs ; and 53 villeins with a priest and 

 28 bordars have 23 ploughs. There are 16 

 acres of meadow ; and in Warwic(k) 3 houses 

 paying 1 8 pence rent. It was worth 20 

 pounds ; now 30 pounds. Waga held it 

 freely. 



The same R(obert) holds 5 hides in ETELIN- 

 COTE [Idlicote]. 9 There is land for 9 

 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 ploughs and 7 

 serfs; and (there are) 26 villeins and 3 bordars 

 with 8 ploughs. It was worth 4 pounds ; 

 now 8 pounds. Auegrin and Ordec held it 

 freely. 



IN FERNECUMBE HUNDRED 



The same R(obert) holds i hide in HOLE- 

 HALE [Ullenhall]. 10 There is land for 15 

 ploughs. There are 17 villeins and u 

 bordars with 6 ploughs. Wood(land) half a 

 league long and i furlong broad. It was and 

 is worth 3 pounds. Waga held it. 



The same R(obert) holds in OFFEWORDE 

 [Offbrd in Wootton Wawen] 11 5 hides. 

 There is land for 6 ploughs. There are 3^ 

 ploughs with 3 serfs and 10 bordars. There 

 is a mill worth (de) 4 shillings. Wood(land) I 

 league long and half a league broad. It was 

 worth 3 pounds ; now 4 pounds. Waga 

 held it freely T.R.E. 



The same R(obert) holds in EDRICESTONE 

 [Edstone in Wootton Wawen] 12 5 hides. 



8 This appears in later records as in the Barony 

 of Stafford, and being close to Tysoe was probably 

 in ' Fexhole ' Hundred. 



10 There can be little doubt of this identification, 

 but Ullenhall was afterward accounted in Pathlow 

 Liberty. 



11 Offord appearing subsequently in Barlichway 

 Hundred, not in Pathlow Liberty, was probably in 

 the Domesday Hundred of ' Fernecumbe.' Its 

 locality was only marked by a mill in Dugdale's 

 time, and the name has now disappeared. 



13 This seems clear. It appears as ' Edristone ' in 

 the Subsidy Roll of i Edward III. ' Edricestone ' 

 held by the Bishop of Bayeux was undoubtedly 

 Atherstone-on-Stour, which was in Kineton Hun- 

 dred. In his account of Edstone Dugdale mis- 

 takenly speaks of the tenure of the de Ruperiis 

 family, who really had to do with Atherstone, 

 as he himself had shown in his account of that 

 parish. The two places are similarly confused in 

 The Red Book of the Exchequer, p. 1 1 64. Edstone, 

 of which the name is now only preserved in Edstone 

 Hall, a country seat, is found in Barlichway Hun- 



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