THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



The King holds Suchelie [Suckley]. Earl 

 Eadwine {Edwinus) held (it). There are 5 

 hides. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and 

 (there are) 22 villeins and 24 bordars with 

 27 ploughs. There are 10 other bordars 

 (who are) poor, and a mill worth {de) 6 

 shillings, and a keeper of the bees, with 12 hives 

 {vasculorum). The wood(land) has 5 leagues, 

 reckoning {inter) length and width, and (there 

 is) a fishery there. In Wirecestre [Worcester] 

 there is appurtenant i burgess, but (he) 

 renders nothing. There is a mill worth {de) 

 6 shillings. St. Mary holds the tithe(s) of 

 this vill {villa) with I villein and half a 

 virgate of land. ^ Earl Roger ^ gave to a cer- 

 tain Richard half a virgate of land in entire 

 freedom {soUda libertate). 



These 6 manors^ render at Hereford 50 

 pounds of rent {de firma) and 25 shillings for 

 consideration {ge 



lersumma) 



[GLOWECESTRESCIRE] 



fo. 163b. 



In the same manor of Teodekesberie 

 [Tewkesbury] used to belong 4 hides with- 

 out (the) demesne^ which are in Hanlege 



* This must be the Abbey of Cormeilles 

 for Henry II. 's charter confirms to it the 

 tithes and one {sic) virgate of land here. 



* Roger earl of Hereford, son of William 

 Fitz Osbern. 



^ i.e. Hanley Castle, Forthampton, Bush- 

 ley, Queenhill, Eldersfield, and Suckley. 



* It should be observed that this repre- 

 sented sixpence on the pound of the rent, 

 exactly the same proportion as at Martley 

 (p. 320 above). 



* This phrase {sine dominio), at first sight, 

 implies a contradiction. But I am inclined 

 to explain it as meaning that the demesne 

 ' hides ' were not liable to ' geld.' For the 



[Hanley (Castle)]. There, T.R.E., were in 

 (the) demesne 2 ploughs, and of {inter) vil- 

 leins and bordars (there were) 40, and of 

 {inter) serfs and bondwomen 8, and a mill 

 worth {de) 16 pence. (There is) wood(land) 

 in which is a ' Hay.' ^ This land belonged 

 to {fitit) earl William ;' it now is (annexed) 

 to the King's ' ferm ' {firmam) of Hereford.* 

 It was worth 15 pounds T.R.E. ; now 10 

 pounds. 



In FoRTELMENTONE [Forthampton] 9 hides 

 belonged to this manor (of Tewkesbury). . . . 



These 2 estates {terras) were held by earl 

 William and paid their geld in {propter) 

 Tedekesberie [Tewkesbury].^ 



Forthampton entry, in the Herefordshire 

 version, states that there were ' there 9 hides 

 which were used to (pay) geld for 4 hides' 

 (only). Indeed, Domesday specially mentions 

 (fo. 163^) that, of the 95 hides in the Tew- 

 kesbury group of manors, 45 were exempt 

 from ' geld.' 



^ See above, p. 288, note 8. 



' William Fitz Osbern earl of Hereford, 

 His ownership of Hanley (Castle) is not men- 

 tioned in the survey of it given above (p. 321), 

 but is confirmed hy the fact mentioned by 

 Nash [I. 562] that ' the parsonage was an- 

 ciently united to the abbey of Lyra in France, 

 who made it over in fee farm to the prior and 

 convent of Little Malvern.' 



* i.e. to the group of manors of which 

 Hereford was the head and which paid the 

 Crown a joint 'ferm.' 



^ This is the reason of their being entered 

 together under Tewkesbury in the Glouces- 

 tershire Survey, just as the Worcestershire 

 manors, including Hanley, entered under 

 Herefordshire, appear there because their rent 

 had been annexed, by earl William, to that of 

 Hereford, 



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