THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



The same Lewin holds 2 hides and half a 

 virgate of land in FLECHENHO [Flecknoe]. l 

 There is land for 2 ploughs. There is I with 

 2 villeins and i bordar and 6 acres of meadow. 

 It was worth 10 shillings ; now 2O shillings. 



This estate Lewin said that he holds of 

 Bishop Ulstan ; but the bishop failed him in 

 (his) plea, whereby the same Lewin is at (in) 

 the king's mercy.* 



Ordric holds of the king I hide in ETEDONE 

 [Eatington]. 3 This is waste. 



Goduin holds of the king I hide in COR- 

 NELIE [Corley]. 4 There is land for 2 ploughs. 

 In the demesne is i, and 3 serfs ; and (there 

 are) 4 villeins and 2 bordars with 2 ploughs. 

 There are 6 acres of meadow. (There is) 

 Wood(land) having in length the fourth part 

 of a league, and in breadth the fourth part of 

 half a league. It was worth 10 shillings ; 

 now 30 shillings. The same Goduin held it 

 freely T.R.E. 



XLV. THE LAND OF THE WIFE 

 OF HUGH DE GRENTEMAISNIL 



Adeliz wife of Hugh holds of the king 4 

 hides in MILDENTONE [Middleton]. 5 There 



i The particulars here given as to this estate arc 

 (except that the value ' post ' is not given) exactly 

 the same as those stated in the entry under the 

 Bishop of Worcester's estates, where Lewin is said 

 to hold under the Bishop. I therefore take it 

 that these two are duplicate entries referring to the 

 same estate. That being so it appears that Lewin 

 held (or claimed to hold) one half of the place 

 (viz. z hides and half a virgate + l| hides = 

 3J hides and half a virgate), and Turchil held one 

 half (viz. I hide and half a virgate + 2^ 

 hides, = 3$ hides and half a virgate). Lewin 

 would seem to have been Turchil's uncle. 



See Introduction, p. 296. 



3 Eatington in a former entry was rubricated as 

 in .' Tremelau ' Hundred. It is mentioned four 

 times in Domesday Book ; the first entry assigning 

 I hide to ' Fulrei ' and ' Etendone ' jointly. ' Fulrei ' 

 [Fulready] however is merely a hamlet in Eating- 

 ton. In the other three entries the hidages are I, 

 17 and I, making up altogether a 2O-hide place. 



Corley, appearing subsequently in Hemling- 

 ford Hundred, was doubtless in the Domesday 

 Hundred of ' Coleshelle.' 



6 In the same way as Corley, Middleton would 



is land for 4 ploughs. In the demesne are i 

 ploughs, and 3 serfs ; and (there are) 1 2 villeins 

 and 5 bordars with 3^ ploughs. It was 

 worth 4 pounds ; now 6 pounds. Turgot 

 held it freely T.R.E. 



8 Robert holds of the king half a hide in 

 BERCESTONE [? Barston] 7 and there has i 

 plough, and a mill worth (de) 20 pence. It is 

 worth 20 shillings. Turchil held it freely. 



Anseis 8 holds of the king 4 hides in HERDE- 

 BERGE [Harborough]. 9 (There is) land for 4 

 ploughs. There is now in the demesne I 

 plough ; and 8 villeins with a priest and 7 

 bordars have 2 ploughs. There is a mill 

 worth (tie) 1 6 pence. It was worth 10 shil- 

 lings ; now 20 shillings. Bruning held it 

 freely T.R.E. 



(MEMORANDUM. The following entries relating 

 to Berchewelle [Berkswell], Witacre [Whitacre], 

 Salwebrige [Sawbridge] and Wicford [possibly 

 Whichford] occur in the Domesday of Northamp- 

 tonshire. 



be in ' Coleshelle ' Hundred. This looks suspiciously 

 like a duplicate entry of her husband's estate in 

 Middleton, but there are differences, and we may 

 suppose that the former tenants Pallin and Turgot 

 enjoyed an equal division, which Hugh and his wife 

 had continued, the husband retaining the manorial 

 mill, and his interest in the priest's estate whatever 

 that may have implied. It may be mentioned that 

 Adeliz held a 'Mildentone' in Bedfordshire, but I 

 see no reason to suspect confusion. 



6 This and the next entry stand at the head of 

 the second column and therefore come after the 

 entry of Adeliz's estate, but they are obviously in- 

 tended to be included among the estates of 

 ' Richard and other thegns and sergeants of the 

 king.' Possibly they had been overlooked. 



7 I think so, and that Robert is either Robert 

 Dispensator or Robert de Olgi, who were both con- 

 cerned in Barston. Turchil is the former holder, 

 and we have found his father Alwin the T.R.E. tenant 

 of 'Bertanestone' which is undoubtedly Barston. 

 The ' c ' may be, as often, a mistake for ' t.' Barston, 

 which is in Hemlingford Hundred, would be in 

 the Domesday Hundred of ' Coleshelle.' 



8 This must have been the ' Ansegis ' who held 

 under Geoffrey de ' Wirce ' in the adjoining parish 

 of Newnham Paddox. J.H.R. 



9 Harborough, as already stated, is rubricated in 

 ' Bomelau ' Hundred. 



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