HERE ARE ENTERED 



THE HOLDERS OF LAND 



IN WIRECESTRE SCIRE 



I King William 

 II The church of Worcester 

 III The bishop of Hereford 



nil The church of St. Denis 

 V The church of Coventry 

 VI The church of Cormelies 



VII The church of Gloucester 

 VIII The church of Westminster 

 IX The church of Pershore 

 X The church of Evesham 

 XI The bishop of Bayeux 



XII The church of St. Guthlac 



XIII The clerks of Wolverhampton* 



XIV Earl Roger 



THE KING'S LAND 



King W[illiam] holds in demesne Bre- 

 MESGRAVE [Bromsgrove] with i8 berewicks : 

 — Museleie [Moseley], Nortune [Kingsnor- 

 ton], Lindeorde [Linthurst], Warthuil [Wit- 

 hall ?], Witeurde [Whitford], Hundesfeld 

 [Houndsfield], Thessale [Tessall farm], 

 Weredeshale Lea [Lea end ?], 



Comble [Cobley ?], Bericote [Burcot], Asse- 

 berga [ ], Tothehel [Tutnall Cross], 



Tuneslega [ ], Focheberie [Foch- 



bury], Suruehel [Surehole farm], Vdecote 

 [Woodcote], Timbrehangre [Timberhanger].^ 



1 ' Wrehantone.' 



^ There is, admittedly, much difficulty in 

 identifying some of the ' berewicks ' {i.e. out- 

 lying estates) entered above as dependent on 

 Bromsgrove. For some of the identifications 

 in the text I am alone responsible. ' Lin- 

 deorde ' I make to be Linthurst, 2 miles 

 north-east of Bromsgrove ; ' Thessale ' is 

 clearly Tessall (farm) between Chadwick and 

 King's Norton ; and ' Hundesfelde ' can be 

 identified as in King's Norton by the Hun- 



2S5 



XV Ralf de Todeni 



XVI Ralf de Mortemer 



XVII Robert de Stadford 



XVIII Roger de Laci 



XIX Osbern Fitz Richard 



XX Gilbert Fitz Turold 



XXI Drogo Fitz Ponz 



XXII Harold Fitz Ralf 



XXIII William Fitz Ansculf 



XXIV William Fitz Corbucion 

 XXV William Goizenboded 



XXVI Urse de Abetoth 



XXVII Hugh Lasne 

 XXVIII Eldeve 



Between (them) all, together with the manor 

 (itself), there are 30 hides. Earl E(a)dwine 

 held this manor T.R.E. 



In demesne there are now 2 ploughs, and 

 (there are) 20 villeins and the reeve {prepositus) 

 and the beadle with the priest and 92 bordars, 

 having between (them) all 77 ploughs. 



dred Rolls (ii. 283). We also have a refer- 

 ence in Habington's Survey (II. 220) to 

 ' Haunckesfield's Graunge ' as ' the syte of 

 the mannor of Hownesfeild ' in 36 Hen. 

 VIII., and the Monasticon shows us Bordesley 

 Abbey as holding land at ' Houndefeld ' when 

 dissolved. Among the five ' chapels ' de- 

 pendent on Bromsgrove were Moseley and 

 Withall, which, therefore, we must recognise 

 in 'Museleie' and 'Warthuil.' Habingdon 

 (ii. 218) wrote of ' Moseley aunciently called 

 Mounsley ' in King's Norton, but Moundsley 

 Hall in King's Norton is quite distinct from 

 Moseley. ' Suruehel ' appears to me to be 

 Surehole (farm) close to Hall Green. Cobley 

 (Hill) is two miles east of Burcot 'Tutnall 

 and Cobley ' are now combined. 



