THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



and could betake themselves {ire) with (their) 

 land where they would, and (they) had under 

 them 4 knights {milites) as free as they them- 

 selves were.' There are lO hides, and in (the) 

 demesne (are) 6 ploughs, and (there are) 30 

 villeins and 1 1 bordars, and a reeve {prepositus) 

 and a beadle {bedel) and a miller and a smith ; 

 between (them) all they have 18 ploughs. 

 There are 12 serfs, and 5 bondwomen, and 

 I ' radman ' who holds half a hide and 

 two-thirds of half a hide,^ and a croft, and has 

 I plough. There is a mill worth {de) 2 

 shillings. In (Droit)Wich 4 saltpans are 

 appurtenant. The wood(land) of this manor 

 is put out of it {forts est missa), for the King's 

 forest {silvam), and so is i hide of land which 

 earl William ^ gave to Gozelin the huntsman. 



The tithe(s) of this manor and the church, 

 with the priest, and two virgates of land with 

 I villein were given by earl William to the 

 Abbey {cscclesiis) of St. Mary.* 



Walter de Laci gave to a certain Hubert 

 I hide of the demesne land.* This Hubert 

 has half a plough. 



The King holds Haloede [Holloway].^ 

 Siward, a thegn and kinsman of king Edward, 

 held it. There are 3 hides, and in (the) 

 demesne are 3 ploughs, and there are 4 vil- 

 leins and I bordar and a reeve {prepositus) and 

 a beadle {bedel) with 3 ploughs, and of {inter) 

 serfs and bondwomen 6. There is a park 

 for wild animals {ferarum), but it has been 

 put {missum) outside the manor with all the 



' This is a most exceptional and remarkable 

 entry, 



^ i.e. five-sixths of a hide in all. 



^ William Fitz Osbern earl of Hereford. 



* i.e. of La Vieille Lyre, for Nash observes 

 that ' The rectory formerly belonged to the 

 abbey of Lyra in France, and had a large 

 demesne named Astwood attached to it ' (L 

 442). 



^ The importance of this passage consists 

 in its demonstration that Walter de Laci 

 (who had died shortly before the survey), the 

 father of Roger de Laci the Domesday 

 tenant-in-chief, must have held this manor at 

 some time. 



^ In Feckenham. It was granted to 

 Bordesley Abbey half a century later. It is 

 the ' Holewei ' of the entry above (fo. 178), 

 and the 'Holeweya' of Testa de Nevill (p. 43) 

 where its grant by the Crown to Bordesley 

 Abbey is referred to. The Abbot and con- 

 vent speak of it as their manor of Holewey 

 Grange in the county of Worcester, 10 Dec, 

 1467 (Madox' Formulare, p. 286). 



\ 3- 



wood(land). In (Droit)Wich (are appur- 

 tenant) 4 saltpans and i ' hoch.' In Wire- 

 cestre [Worcester] i house rend[ers] 2 

 ploughshares, and 2 other houses, belonging 

 to Feckenham rendered nothing and have 

 been put {missie) outside. 



These 2 manors render at Hereford 18 

 pounds of pennies at {de) 20 to the ounce. 



In Glowecestre '' Scire. 



The King holds Hanlie [Hanley Castle]. 

 Brictric ^ held (it). There are 4 hides. In 

 (the) demesne are two ploughs, and there 

 are 20 villeins and 17 bordars and a reeve ; 

 between (them) all they have 17^ ploughs. 

 Of {inter) serfs and bondwomen there are 

 9 there, and 6 swineherds {porcarii) render 

 60 swine and have 4 ploughs. There is 

 a mill worth {de) 2 shillings. The wood- 

 (land is) 5 leagues reckoning {inter) length 

 and width. It has been put out of {missa 

 forts) the manor.® There is a hawk's eyrie 

 {aired). A forester holds half a virgate of land, 

 and one villein at {de) Baldehalle renders to this 

 manor 2 ounces of (silver) pennies (a year). 



The King holds Forhelmentone [Forth- 

 ampton]. Brictric held it.'" . , . 



In Wirecestre Scire 

 The King holds Biselie [Bushley]. Bric- 

 tric held (it), and he bought it from Lyfing 

 {Livingo) bishop of Worcester {Wirecestre) for 

 3 marcs of gold ** together with {simul et) a 



' Sic. But this heading must apply only to 

 the second of the two manors which follow, 

 namely Forthampton, which is in Gloucester- 

 shire, though surrounded on three sides by 

 Worcestershire. 



* The Brictric of this entry and of the two 

 which follow is the great Brihtric son of 

 iElfgar, the centre of whose power was at 

 Tewkesbury (see Introduction). 



® This large tract of woodland was part of 

 Malvern Chase running back from Hanley to 

 the Herefordshire border. Another part was 

 appurtenant to the bishop of Worcester's 

 manor of Upton and Ripple which adjoined 

 Hanley on the south. 



'° Another survey of Hanley Castle and 

 Forthampton will be found below extracted 

 from the Gloucestershire Domesday, where 

 they are entered in the same order as members 

 of Brihtric's great lordship of Tewkesbury. 



*' jTiS. Compare the very different story 

 of the transaction in the survey of what seems 

 to be this same estate on p. 292 above, under 

 the lands of the church of Worcester. 



