A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE 



hides ; Langeduna Osmundi [in Longdon] 

 i^ hides; Colleduma [Cowsdown]* 3 hides 

 and 3 virgates ; Graftona Ebrandi [Grafton 

 Flyford] i hide and 3 virgates ; * Flavel 

 [Flyford Flavel] and Pidelet [North Piddle] 

 5 hides ; ^ Newentona [Naunton Beau- 

 champ] 10 hides;* Brocton Inardi [Brough- 

 ton Hacket] 3 hides ; ^ Pidelet Radulfi 

 [Wyre Piddle] 3 hides ; « Berford [Besford] 

 5 hides;' Branefford [Bransford Chapel] 



1 hide;* Wicha Inardi [Wick by Per- 

 shore] 3 hides ; ^ Burlingeham [Birlingham] 



2 hides and i virgate ; *" Cumbrintona 

 [Comberton] 2 hides.^" Poiwica Willelmi 

 de Bellocampo [Beauchampcourt in Powick] 

 I hide ; Newebolt [ ] i hide ; Medele- 

 ffeld [Madresfield] i hide of Powick; at 

 Berga [Berrowr ?] i hide ; Olendene [ ] 

 I hide ; Arleia [ ] i virgate ; Poiwica 

 Inardi [in Powick] I hide. Total 60 hides 

 and a half.'^ 



In the aforesaid Hundred of Pershore (of) 

 the fief of the abbot of Pershore : — Belega 

 [Beoley] 21 hides; Branefford [Bransford 

 Chapel] I hide ; Wadberga [Wadborough] 

 3^ hides ; Cumbrientona [Comberton] i^ 



* In Snodsbury. This enables us to 

 identify Urse's Domesday holding of 4 hides 

 less 1 virgate in Snodsbury, which had no 

 name. 



* The 2 hides less i virgate which Urse 

 held at ' Garstune ' in 1086. 



^ Held by Urse in 1086 as at 'Pidelet.' 

 The relative entry in the short survey on fo. 

 6b of this MS. is 'Inter Flavel et Pidelet 

 Robertus Parler habet v hidas et v carucas, 

 et valet Ix solidos.' The figures, here, are 

 those of Domesday, which, however, does not 

 mention Robert, who may have been Urse's 

 tenant (see below). 



* The Domesday holding of Urse there. 

 « Held by (Urse) the sheriff in 1086. 



^ Held in 1086 by Urse as 4 hides, of 

 which one did not pay geld. 

 ' Urse's holding there in 1086. 



* Domesday only mentions the hide he 

 held here of Pershore Abbey (see below). 



* Domesday only assigns him i hide 

 there. 



10 Held by Urse in 1086. 



'' The Powick entries are difficult. Domes- 

 day assesses all Powick at 3 hides only, and 

 does not tell us what proportion was repre- 

 sented by Urse's valuable estate there. The 

 version of Domesday in Vesp. B. XXIV. fo. 

 6b enters Powick as 3 hides, but proceeds 

 to reckon Urse's holding as 5 hides. 



hides ; Lega Ricardi [Leigh] half a hide ; 

 Walecote [Walcote] and Torendune [Thorn- 

 ton] i^ hides.'^ 



In the Hundred of Leisse '^ the same 

 William holds (at) Chirchlench [Churchlench] 

 4 hides of the abbey of Evesham ; ** (at) 

 Croulega [Crowle] 5 hides of the fief of 

 Osbert Fitz Hugh.'» 



In the Hundred of Clent : — (At) Belna 

 [Belne in Belbroughton] 8 hides of the fief 

 of Fulk {Folwi) Paganel ; '« (at) Salwarpa 

 [Salwarpe] 5 hides of the fief of earl 

 Roger ; *' also (at) Salwarpa i hide of the 

 fief of the bishop of Chester ; ^* (at) Chalves- 

 tona [Chauson] i hide of the fee of Robert 



^^ In Domesday the great manor of Beoley 

 was held by Pershore Abbey in demesne, but 

 by subsequent enfeoffment Beauchamp held 

 there one of the Abbot's two knight's fees 

 {Testa, p. 40, Liber Ruieus, p. 302). This, 

 however, appears, from the records cited by 

 Habington to have been only 5 hides. 

 Bransford and Comberton had been held by 

 Urse, in 1086, and Wadborough by Robert 

 the Despencer. At Leigh Domesday assigns 

 a hide and a half to Urse, but its figures are 

 not consistent with themselves. The hide 

 and a half at Walcote and Thornton appears 

 to represent the one hide that Domesday 

 assigns to Urse at Broughton (which lay 

 between them). The hide which Urse held 

 at Wadborough and the 2 hides he claimed 

 at Broadwas are not here entered as held by 

 William de Beauchamp. 



^^ The ' Esch ' of Domesday. 



^* This estate appears in Domesday as held 

 by the Abbey in demesne. The monks 

 accounted for its loss by the statement that 

 Abbot Walter had granted it to Urse ' pro 

 servitio,' for his life only (Harl. MS. 3,763, 

 fo. 168). It is here found held by his grand- 

 son William de Beauchamp. 



'^ As Urse had held it of his grandfather, 

 Osbern Fitz Richard, in 1086. It was 

 afterwards held, as one knight's fee, by 

 Hacket under Poher, and by Poher under 

 Beauchamp. 



'* Belne, in 1086, was held by William 

 Fitz Ansculf, Fulk's predecessor, as 3 hides. 

 It is not easy to see why it here becomes 8, 

 or why William de Beauchamp held it as 

 under-tenant, unless the Robert who so held 

 it in 1086 was Robert the Despencer. 



*' Which Urse had held of earl Roger in 

 1086. 



18 Which Urse had held, as of the church 

 of Coventry, in 1086. 



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