THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



LONGELEI [Langley *]. There is land for 2 

 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, with i serf ; 

 and (there are) 3 villeins and 4 bordars with 

 2 ploughs. There are 1 2 acres of meadow ; 

 wood(land) I league long and half a league 

 broad. It was worth 30 shillings ; now 40 

 shillings. Ernui held it freely. 



From R(obert), Ailric holds i hide in BURLEI 

 [Bearley]." There is land for I plough. 

 There is I villein and i serf, and I acre of 

 meadow. It was worth 20 shillings ; now 

 i o shillings. The same (Ailric) held it. 



Leuing holds in OFFEWORDE [Offord 2 in 



Wootton Wawen] a I carucate of inland 3 and 



there has I plough. It was and is worth 10 

 shillings. 



XXIII. THE LAND OF ROBERT 

 DISPENSER 4 



IN COLESHELLE [CoLESHILL] HUNDRET 



Robert Dispenser (Dispensator) holds of the 

 king 9 hides in MERSTON [? in Lea Mars- 

 ton]. 5 There is land for 8 ploughs. In the 

 demesne are 2, and 2 serfs ; and (there are) 24 

 villeins with 6 ploughs. There is a mill 

 worth (de) i o shillings, and 6 acres of meadow. 

 It was and is worth 4 pounds. Ailmar held 

 it freely T.R.E. In like wise (he held) this 

 estate following. 



The same Robert holds half a hide in 

 FILINGELEI [Fillongley]. 8 There is land 

 for 2 ploughs. There are 4 villeins with a 

 priest and I bordar who have (habentes) 2 

 ploughs. There is I acre of meadow ; 



1 See next note. 



2 As none of these six places following Clopton 

 appears afterward in Pathlow Liberty, though all 

 were in Barlichway Hundred, I suppose that they 

 were in the Domesday Hundred of ' Fernecumbe.' 



3 This entry appears at the end of Robert de 

 Stafford's barony, but does not state that Leuing 

 held of him. A Leuing was a king's thegn in 

 Staffordshire. This entry, and the subsequent 

 entry relating to Lighthorne contain the only two 

 references to ' inland ' in the Domesday of War- 

 wickshire. 



* ' Dispensatoris.' 



8 I have little doubt that this ' Merston ' and the 

 ' Merstone ' held by Robert de Oilgi were the same 

 place and were Lea-Marston. The arguments in 

 favour of this are almost too intricate to be stated 

 in a footnote. The Marmions were afterwards 

 lords of Lea-Marston, and it is usual to find them 

 in possession of Robert Dispenser's lands. 



This is obvious. Moreover here also the Mar- 

 mions in later times had an estate. 



wood(land) 2 leagues long and i league broad. 

 It was worth 10 shillings; now 2O shillings. 



The same R(obert) holds i hide in LETH 

 [? Lea-Marston]. 7 There is land for I 

 plough. There is I knight with I plough ; 

 and (there are) 4 villeins and I bordar and 2 

 serfs with i plough. There are 2 acres of 

 meadow. It was worth 10 shillings, and is 

 worth 15 shillings. Alwin held it freely. 



The same R(obert) holds 10 hides in BER- 

 TANESTONE [Barston]. 8 There is land for 

 10 ploughs. There are 6 free men and 9 

 villeins and 4 bordars with 10 ploughs. 

 There is a mill worth (de) 4 shillings. Wood- 

 (land) half a league long and 3 furlongs broad. 

 It was and is worth 100 shillings. Ailmar 

 held it freely, and with the leave (licentia) of 

 King William, sold it to Alwin the sheriff. 



XXIV. THE LAND OF ROBERT 

 DE VECI 



IN BOMELAU HUNDRET 



Robert de Veci holds of the king 5 hides 

 and a half in ULVEIA [Wolvey]. There is 

 land for 8 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, 

 and 4 serfs ; and 15 villeins with a priest and 

 2 bordars have 7 ploughs. There are 50 

 acres of meadow. Pasture half a league in 

 length and breadth. It was worth (? 3)' 

 pounds ; now 50 shillings. Alric son of 

 Meriet held it freely T.R.E. 



The same Robert holds 3 virgates of land 

 in WITECORE [(? Nether) Whitacre]. 10 There 

 is land for I plough, and it is there, with I 

 villein and 2 acres of meadow. It was worth 

 IO shillings ; now 2 shillings. Ailric held it 

 freely. 11 



7 It had occurred to me that this might be 

 Blithe and that the initial B had somehow dropped 

 out. But Blithe was not even important enough 

 to appear in the Subsidy Roll of i Edward III., and 

 moreover Dugdale shows that it was held from the 

 Mowbrays, whereas Lea, like Marston, was held 

 under the Marmions, the successors of Robert 

 Dispenser. 



8 This, as already stated (see p. 320), is apparently 

 a duplicate of the entry relating to ' Bertanestone ' 

 under Turchil's fee. But this is not certain, and 

 Mr. Round doubts it. 



9 Here is a smudge of ink in the original. 

 There are certainly two strokes and may be three. 



10 See the note relating to the entry of Wite- 

 core in Turchil's fee, p. 319. 



11 This entry at the foot of the column, in a 

 smaller handwriting and lower than the foot of 

 the other column, appears to be an afterthought. 



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