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must be supplied from later sources the Black or Red Books 

 of the Exchequer, or the Testa de Nevill. In Hampshire, 

 Miles the porter is returned among the Serjeants as holding 

 Bramdean. 1 Mr. Round refers to the Testa de Nevill to show 

 that this estate was held by the service of keeping the King's 

 gaol at Winchester. 2 Among the ministers of the King in 

 Oxfordshire was Alwi, who held 2 hides less J virgate at 

 Worton. 3 The Testa de NeviU shows that Robert fitz Alan 

 held ij carucate there by the service of bearing a pennon 

 before the infantry of the hundred of Wootton. Pre-Conquest 

 traces of tenure in serjeantry can be found : Wenesi held 

 certain lands in Hampshire by services connected with the 

 goats ; * and Alwin held \ hide of the King's demesne at 

 Akeley (Bucks.) for teaching orfrey work to the sheriff's 

 daughter. 5 



It is under the headings of the King's vavassours and 

 thegns that we find the names of most of the Englishmen 

 who, on their submission to the Conqueror, had retained their 

 lands ; but of them we have already spoken. 



1 D. B., I. 49 b i. 2 V. C. ff. t Plants, i. 431. 



3 D. B., I. 161 a i. 4 D. B., I. 47 a 2. 



5 Id., I. 149 a 2. 



