A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



The same R(ichard) holds half a hide in 

 SOCHEBERGE [Nether Shuckburgh]. 1 There 

 is land for i plough and it is there with 

 5 villeins. It was worth 10 shillings; now 

 2O shillings. Edric held it freely. 



The same R(ichard) holds i hide in MOR- 

 TONE [Hillmorton].* There is land for 2 

 ploughs. In the demesne is half a plough ; 

 and (there are) 3 villeins and 3 bordars with i 

 plough. There are 10 acres of meadow. It 

 was and is worth 20 shillings. Wiching held 

 it freely. 



IN HONESBERIE HuNDRET 



From the same Richard, 

 fritf) holds i hide at farm 

 way]. 3 There is land for 

 demesne are 2, with I serf 

 villein and 3 bordars with 

 are 3 acres of meadow, 

 shillings; now 25. Earl 

 held it T.R.E.* 



Ermenfrith (Erm J - 



in RADWEIA [Rad- 



3 ploughs. In the 



; and (there are) i 



i plough. There 



It was worth 20 



Ralf (Coma R.) 



IN STANLEI [STONELEIGH] HUNDRET 



Richard the Huntsman 6 (R. Senator) holds 

 of the king i hide in SOWA [Sowe]. There 

 is land for 2 ploughs. In the demesne is i ; 

 and (there are) 2 villeins and 2 bordars with 



1 Assuming that Dugdale's account of this place 

 and his reference to the Testa de Nevill are correct, 

 this must be Nether Shuckburgh which however 

 was always afterwards in Kineton Hundred ; where- 

 as, seeing the apparently careful rubrication of 

 Richard Forester's estates, this would seem to be in 

 Marton Hundred. (The Testa de Nevill does not 

 specify in which of the Shuckburghs Richard's 

 holding lay. But Dugdale's account seems to be 

 right. J.H.R.] 



1 I think so ; but the subsequent history affords 

 no clue ; and see the former notes on the Mor- 

 tons held by the Count of Meulan and Hugh de 

 Grentmesnil, as to the difficulty of distinguishing 

 between Marton and Morton. All the five entries 

 make up in hidage a little more than 5 hides, so 

 that if they relate to one place, that would, I sup- 

 pose, be Hillmorton, which is about three times as 

 large as Marton. 



' It is on the strength of this rubrication that 

 Radway has been assigned to < Honesbcrie ' Hundred 

 in the notes on the former entries relating to it. 

 The hide here recorded brings the hidage up to 

 the unusual number of 6 hides. 



Dugdale (p. 420) shows that Earl RalPs 

 descendants, the de Sudeleys, and Richard Forester's 

 descendants, the de Loges family, both had interests 

 in this place. 



Dugdale is no doubt right in stating that this 

 is merely Richard the Forester under a different 

 name. He was also known as Chenuin, and 

 Chenen or Cheven. See Eyton's Domesday Studies, 

 Staffordshire, pp. 53, 55-6. 



half a plough. There are 3 acres of meadow. 

 The wood(Iand) there, between himself and 

 the king and the abbot," is (habet) 3 leagues 

 long and i league broad. It was worth 20 

 shillings ; now 60 shillings. Colebran held it 

 freely T.R.E. 



IN TREMEJLAU HUNDRET 

 Richard the Huntsman (R. Venator) holds 

 3 hides in CESTRETONE [Chesterton]. There 

 is land for 6 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 

 ploughs ; and (there are) 6 villeins and 4 bor- 

 dars with 3 ploughs. There are 30 acres of 

 meadow. It was worth 40 shillings ; now 

 100 shillings. Four thegns held it freely. 7 



IN BERRICESTUNE [BARCHESTON] HUNDRET 

 Alvric holds of the king i hide and half a 

 virgate of land in BERRICESTUNE 8 [Barches- 

 ton]. There is land for 2 ploughs. In the 

 demesne is i, and 4 villeins have 2 ploughs. 

 There are 10 acres of meadow. It was 

 worth 20 shillings ; now 40 shillings. Wichig' 

 held it freely. 



IN COLESHELLE [CoLESHIU.] HuNDRET 



Alsi holds of the king half a hide 9 in 

 FELINGELEI 8 [Fillongley]. There is land for 

 i plough, and it is in the demesne with i 

 serf; and 7 villeins with r bordar have i 

 plough. Wood(land) worth 10 shillings when 

 it bears (oner at'}. It (the estate) is worth 30 

 shillings. The same man (Idem ipse) held it 

 himself. 



IN MERETON [MARTON] HUNDRET 



Lewin holds of the king i$ hides 

 in FLECHENHO [Flecknoe]. There is land 

 for 2 ploughs. In the demesne is i, and 3 

 serfs ; and 3 villeins with i bordar have I 

 plough. It was worth 10 shillings ; now 30 

 shillings. 



This (hie) Lewin bought (it) from Alwin 

 his brother. 



6 i.e. of Coventry. See the entry under the 

 estates of the Church of Coventry. 



' Between this entry and the next following, 

 there is something of a gap, showing that the list 

 of Richard the Forester's estates ends here. The 

 holdings which follow are those of English thegns. 



8 'Berricestune' and 'Felingelei' are both inter- 

 lineated. I take this as a sign that to this particu- 

 lar clerk who made these returns it seemed of more 

 importance to know on what hundred the assess- 

 ment lay, than on what township. 



9 Fillongley appears under four estates, each of 

 half a hide. 



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