A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



for I plough. There are 2 bordars. It was 

 and is worth 10 shillings. Two brothers 

 held it freely. 



IN FERNECUMBE HUNDRET 



From R(obert), Hugh holds 2 hides in MOR- 

 TONE [Morton Bagot]. 1 There is land for 

 4 ploughs. In the demesne is i, and 2 serfs ; 

 and (there are) 5 villeins and 5 bordars with 

 2 ploughs. There is meadow 3 furlongs 

 long and 6 perches broad. Wood(land) half a 

 league long and i furlong broad. It was 

 worth 30 shillings ; now 50 shillings. Grim- 

 ulf held it freely. 



IN BERRICESTONE [BARCHESTON] HUNDRET 



From R(obert), Ailric holds i hide in 

 EDELMITONE [? Tidmington]. 2 There is land 

 for i plough. It is there in the demesne, 

 with 2 serfs and I villein. It was worth 

 10 shillings ; now 15 shillings. Ailric held 

 it freely. 



IN PATELAU [PATHLOW] HUNDRET 



From R(obert), Hugh holds I hide and I 

 virgate of land in CLIFORDE [Ruin Clifford]. 3 

 There is land for 2 ploughs. In the demesne 

 is I, and 2 serfs; and (there are) 3 villeins 

 and 3 bordars with I plough. It was and 

 is worth 30 shillings. Saward held it freely 

 T.R.E. 



CLOTONE [Clopton]. 4 There is land for 3 

 ploughs. In the demesne is i, with i serf; 

 and (there are) 7 villeins and 3 bordars with 2 

 ploughs. It was and is worth 60 shillings. 

 Odo and Aileva held it freely T.R.E. 



From R(obert), Hervey holds I hide in MOR- 

 TONE [? Norton-Lindsey]. 8 There is land 

 for 2 ploughs. Two however are in the de- 

 mesne, and 4 serfs ; and (there are) 5 villeins 

 and 2 bordars with 2 ploughs. It was worth 

 20 shillings ; now 40 shillings. Waga held 

 it freely T.R.E. 



From R(obert), Urfer holds I hide and i 

 virgate and the third part of i virgate in UL- 

 WARDITONE [Wolverton].' There is land 

 for 2 ploughs. In the demesne is I, with i 

 serf and 2 villeins and (there is) i furlong 

 of meadow. It was worth 10 shillings; 

 now 20 shillings. Simund the Dane 7 held 

 it freely T.R.E. 



From R(obert), Dreu (Drogo) holds 3 

 hides in WITELEIA [Whitley juxta Henley]. 8 

 There is land for 6 ploughs. In the demesne 

 is i, and 2 serfs ; and (there are) 3 villeins 

 and 6 bordars with 2 ploughs. There is a 

 mill worth (de) 2 shillings, and 10 acres of mea- 

 dow ; wood(land) half a league long and 2 

 furlongs broad. It was worth 20 shillings; 

 now 40 shillings. Three brothers held it. 



From R(obert), William holds 5 hides in From R(obert), Ludichel holds i hides in 



1 I have little doubt of this identification, for 

 there is no other Morton in Barlichway Hundred, 

 in which Hundred 'Fernecumbe' Hundred became 

 included. Dugdale does not take notice of this 

 entry, but considers that the ' Mortone ' four entries 

 further on was Morton Bagot. 



2 Dugdale regards this as Ilmington (which is 

 ' Ilmedon' or ' Ilmedone' in Domesday), but I have 

 little doubt that my identification is correct. For 

 the connecting form 'Tidelmitone ' seep. 83 of the 

 edition of Habington's MSS., published by the 

 Worcestershire Historical Society. No connection 

 of the Staffords with Ilmington is to be traced. 

 Tidmington was part of a Worcestershire island in 

 Warwickshire and is still included in Worcester- 

 shire. 



(In Domesday Tidmington appears as 'Tidelmin- 

 tun,' a 'member' of Tredington in Worcester- 

 shire, and is assessed with it at 23 hides, but only 

 the stream divided it from Warwickshire and it is 

 barely two miles from Barcheston. It is possible 

 therefore that this entry refers to a portion of the 

 parish which was surveyed under Warwickshire. 

 J.H.R.) 



' This was, it would appear from Dugdale's map, 

 a small hamlet in Warwickshire separated from the 

 Gloucestershire Clifford by the river Stour. 



* Clopton, like (Ruin) Clifford, subsequently 

 appears in Pathlow Liberty. 



6 I suggest this identification for several reasons, 

 though Dugdale, as mentioned four notes back, 

 identifies this place as Morton Bagot. But that 

 Norton should be omitted from Domesday Book 

 seems unlikely, and we should expect to find it (as 

 here) next to Wolverton, which is contiguous, and 

 in the same Barony. The fact that Waga was 

 tenant T.R.E. both here and at Wootton Wawen 

 may be connected with the former parochial de- 

 pendence of Norton on Wootton Wawen. Both 

 Morton and Norton appear in the Subsidy Rolls 

 as in Barlichway Hundred but not in Pathlow 

 Liberty. We should expect therefore to find them 

 in the Domesday Hundred of ' Fernecumbe.' 



(It is certain from the Red Book and the Testa de 

 Nevill that Langley and ' Norton ' were held un- 

 der Stafford by Curli, but there seems to be some 

 confusion between Norton Limesi [now Lindsey] 

 and Norton Curli, owing to Curli holding in 

 both. J.H.R.) 



See p. 331, note 2. 



7 In Heming's Cartulary (ed. Hearne), p. 265, 

 he is spoken of as a knight of Earl Leofric, by 

 whose influence he extorted land from the church 

 of Worcester. J.H.R. 



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