A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE 



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(de) 2 pence ; Doda I close (haga) worth (de) 

 2 pence ; Algar I (close) worth (de) 2 pence ; 

 Smiths (fabri) (have) 5 closes (hagas) worth 

 (de) 10 pence. 



The king has in /ELDREMANESTONE [Alder- 

 maston *] 2 closes (hagas) worth (de) 5 pence ; 

 the Count of Evreux 2 closes (hagas) worth (de) 

 2 pence and a halfpenny; Hugh Molebec 2 

 i close (hagam) worth (de) 2 pence ; Roger de 

 Laci I close (hagam) worth (de) 12 pence ; 

 Robert de Olgi I close (hagam) worth (de) 6 

 pence ; the king has I close (haga) worth (de) 

 6 pence ; Bishop Osmund 7 closes (hagas) 

 worth (de) 28 pence ; Robert de Olgi 2 closes 

 (hagas) worth (de) IO pence ; Roger de Laci 

 has 5 closes (hagas) worth (de) 2 1 pence ; Ralf 

 Percehaie 3 7 closes (hagas) worth (de) 

 50 pence ; Rainbald the priest i close 

 (hagam) worth (de) 4 pence ; St. Alban 

 I close (hagam) singa* and it is in dis- 

 pute (in calumnia) ; Bristist I close (hagam) 

 worth (de) 2 pence ; Leveva I close (hagam) 

 worth (de) 2 pence ; Godwin I close (hagam) 

 worth (de) 2 pence ; Alwin I close (hagam) 

 worth (de) 2 pence ; ^Elmer a priest and 

 another Elmer a priest and Bruman and Edwi 

 and Edmund and William son of Osmund 

 and Leflet and Lambert a priest, Alwold 

 and Godric have rent (gablum) from 

 their houses and (the fines due for) blood- 

 shedding (sanguinem), if there is bloodshed 

 there (iAi), and if the man (accused) is 

 received in them before claim is made by 

 the king's reeve (si receptus fuerit homo intus 

 antequam calumnietur a proposito regis) except 

 on Saturday, when the market is held (propter 

 mercatum), because then the king has the fine 

 (forisfacturam). Also they have the fines 

 (emendam) for adultery and theft in their 

 houses. Other fines (forisfacturee) however 

 are the king's. 



T.R.E. it was worth 30 pounds, and after- 

 wards 40 pounds ; now (it is worth) 60 pounds, 

 and yet it yields from the ferm (de firma) 80 

 pounds by tale. What belongs to Adbrei 5 

 (is worth) 7 shillings, and the land of Milo 

 Moli 8 24 shillings ; what the abbot of 

 Abingdon has 8 shillings ; what Roger de Laci 

 has 7 shillings ; what Rainald has 4 shillings. 



1 Now in Theale Hundred. ' For Bolebec. 



3 Compare, for him, the Chronicle of Abingdon 

 (Rolls Ser.) ii. 34 (J.H.R.). 



* To this I can give no meaning, unless it be 

 for slngukm ' separate ' (F.W.R.). 



e It is difficult to decide whether this is an ab- 

 breviation of a personal or place name (F.W.R.). 



' Moli ' interlined. 



The following (subscript?) thegns of Oxene- 

 fordscire (Oxfordshire) had land in Walinge- 

 ford [Wallingford] : 



Archbishop Lanfranc 7 4 houses belonging to 

 (in) Niwetone [Newington] paying 6 shillings ; 

 Bishop Remigius 8 i house belonging to (per- 

 tinentem W) Dorkecestre [Dorchester] paying 12 

 pence. The abbot of St. Alban one house 

 worth (de) 4 shillings. 



Abbot R [ 8 ] one house belonging to 



(HI) Awilme [Ewelme] paying 3 shillings. 



Earl Hugh 10 i house belonging to (in) Pir- 

 tune [Pyrton] paying 3 shillings ; Walter 

 Gifard u 3 houses belonging to (in) Caveresham 

 [Caversham] paying 2 shillings ; Robert de 

 Oilgi " 2 houses belonging to (in) Watelintune 

 [Watlington] paying 2 shillings and belonging 

 to (in) Perie [Waterperry] i house worth (de) 

 2 shillings. 



Ilbert de Laci, Roger son of Seifrid and 

 Orgar have 3 houses worth (de) 4 shillings ; 

 Hugh de Bolebec 13 3 houses belonging to (in) 

 Crem [ ? Crowmarsh Giffbrd] paying 3 shillings. 



Hugh ' grando ' de Scoca I house worth 

 (de) 12 pence. 



Drogo has, belonging to (in) Sireburne 14 

 [Shirburne], and belonging to (in) Westune 

 [Weston] 3 houses worth (de) 4 shillings ; 

 Robert Armenteres, 15 belonging to (in) Awilme 

 [Ewelme] i house worth (de) 1 2 pence ; 

 Wazo 18 I house belonging to (in) Awilme 

 [Ewelme] paying 3 shillings. 



When geld was paid T.R.E. by BERCHE- 

 SCIRE [Berkshire] as a whole (communiter per 

 totam Berchesciram) a hide gave 3 pence and a 

 half penny before the Feast of Nativity of the 

 Lord and the same sum at Pentecost. If the 

 king was sending out an army anywhere only 



' Archbishop Lanfranc was tenant-in-chief in 

 Newtone [Newington], Oxon. 



8 Bishop Remigius of Lincoln was tenant-in- 

 chief in Dorchecestre [Dorchester], Oxon. 



8 No abbot can be identified as holding at 

 Ewelme (J.H.R.). 



10 Earl Hugh was tenant-in-chief in Pirtone 

 [Pyrton], Oxon. 



11 Walter Gifard was tenant-in-chief in Cavesham 

 [Caversham], Oxon. 



la Robert de Olgi was tenant-in-chief in Wate- 

 lintune [Watlington], Oxon. 



13 Hugh de Bolebec held Crawmares [Crow- 

 marsh Gifford] of Walter Gifard. 



He held there under Robert d'Ouilly 

 (J.H.R.). 



" Robert " held under Gilbert de Gand, in 

 Lawelme [Ewelme], Oxon., and " Robert, son of 

 Ralf," a king's servant (minister) in the same 

 Lawelme. 



18 I have not succeeded in finding Wazo among 

 the holders of land in Oxfordshire (F.W.R.). 



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