THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



Ungs; now 30 shillings. He who held 

 this land mowed [secabat) in the meadow for 

 one day and performed {faciebat) the other 

 services. 



The same Urse holds Pidelet [North 

 Piddle].! JE\fwme{JIwinus)hdd{it). There 

 are 4 hides, of which i never paid geld. In 

 (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) i 

 villein, and 4 bordars, and 4 oxmen {hovarii), 

 and I bondwoman. Between (them) all they 

 have I plough. It was worth 50 shillings ; 

 now 60 shillings. 



Walter Ponther holds Peritune [Pirton].^ 

 Godric held (it). There are 6 hides, and in 

 (the) demesne is i plough, and (there are) 3 

 villeins and 10 bordars with 3^ ploughs. 

 There are 4 serfs and 8 acres of meadow. 

 The wood(land) is i league (lewa) long and 

 half a league in width. It was worth 4 

 pounds ; now 50 shillings. 



In PiPLiNTUNE [Peopleton] are 4^ hides in 

 demesne, and there i ' radman ' holds 3 vir- 

 gates, and i Frenchman {francigena) holds the 

 land of I villein, and (there are) i villein and 

 4 bordars. Between (them) lall they have 4 

 ploughs, and there 2 cottars render 3 shillings. 



In the same ' Berewiche ' ^ Godric held 3 

 hides, and half a hide which never (paid) geld ; 

 and iElfwig {J/iui) held i hide, and i vir- 

 gate which never paid geld ; and another 

 .ffilfwig [Alwi) held i hide ; and Wulfric 

 {Vluric) held 3 virgates, I of which did not 

 (pay) geld. These holders {ipsi) did their 

 service [serviehant) like the other free men. 

 Now Walter ponther holds the land of God- 

 ric and of M\i-w'\g [Alwi) and has there i 

 plough, and (there are) 3 villeins and 6 bor- 

 dars with 3 ploughs. There are 4 serfs and 

 10 acres of meadow. What Walter holds is 

 worth 50 shillings.* Urse the sheriff holds 

 the hide which the other jElfwig {Alwi) held. 

 There is nothing there but 2 acres of meadow, 

 and yet it renders 100 pence.* 



* North Piddle lies just between Grafton 

 Flyford and Naunton Beauchamp. 



* It should be observed that this place is 

 styled * Pyriton-Power ' in 12 Hen. IV. 



^ It should be observed that Peopleton is 

 treated as a mere Berewick (dependency) of 

 Pershore, which seems, therefore, to be the 

 status of the other places among which it 

 occurs. 



* This clause is inserted two lines lower. 



* This is a striking instance of the unit of 

 assessment known as the 'hide' representing a 



Gilbert Fitz Turold holds Cumbrintune 

 [Comberton]. E(a)dric, a free man, held (it). 

 There are 9 hides, and in (the) demesne is I 

 plough, and (there are) a priest and 7 villeins 

 and 2 bordars with 4 ploughs. There are 2 

 serfs, and 2 bondwomen, and 30 acres of 

 meadow. There a Frenchman [francigena) 

 holds I hide, and has there I plough and 2 

 serfs and I bondwoman. The above [isdem) 

 E(a)dric did the same service as the other free 

 men. It was worth 6 pounds ; now 70 

 shillings. 



To this (there) belongs a Berewick {Bere- 

 wicha) of 10 hides.^ Ulf and Ansgot held 

 (it), and mowed (for) one day a year in the 

 lord's meadow, and did their service {servie- 

 hant) like the others. Now these 10 hides 

 are held by the aforesaid Gilbert, who has 

 there 3 ploughs in (the) demesne ; and (there 

 are) 14 villeins and 6 bordars with 11 ploughs. 

 There are 4 serfs and i bondwoman, and a 

 mill which renders 30 (horse)loads of grain, 

 and 30 acres of meadow. The wood(land) is 

 1 league {lewa) long and the same in width. 

 The whole was worth 10 pounds ; now 100 

 shillings. 



The sheriff (Urse) holds Broctune 

 [Broughton Hackett], and Aiulf (holds it) of 

 him. Bricsmar held (it). There are 3 hides, 

 and in (the) demesne are I5 ploughs, and 

 (there are) 2 villeins and 2 cottars with i^ 

 ploughs. There are 2 serfs and 6 acres of 

 meadow. It was worth 40 shillings ; now 

 30 shillings. Bricsmar who held it did his 

 service {servietat) like the others. 



In WiRECESTRE SciRE [Worcestershire] 

 Robert Parler holds of Gilbert Fitz Turold a 

 small piece {frustrum) of land called Nadford 

 [Nafford].'' This land neither pays geld nor 

 owes service at the Hundred court {pergit ad 

 hunldret]). There is a priest without a plough 



trifling amount of land. It is just possible, 

 however, that Domesday only means 'There 

 is nothing there ' which is a source of profit. 



^ In this case, though Comberton must 

 have been deemed, like Peopleton (which 

 precedes it), a mere 'Berewick' of Pershore, 

 it has a dependent ' Berewick ' of its own. 

 Great and Little Comberton are, probably, 

 represented by these two entries. 



'' The name is preserved in Nafford mill on 

 the Avon south of Birlingham. Nash asserted 

 of Nafford (which lay south of this mill) that 

 the parish 'is not mentioned in Domesday' 

 (II. 1 80). It is now one parish with Bir- 

 lingham. 



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