SOME EARLY SURVEYS 



[Eastham] 3 hides ; Bertona [Bayton] 3 

 hides and 3 virgates ; Alcrintona [Alton in 

 Rock] 2 hides ; Linda [Lindridge] 2 hides ; 

 and at Halac [ ] 1 hide ; Mora Hu- 



gonis [Moor in Rock] i^ hides ; Werveslega 

 [Worsley farm]^ 2^ hides ; Albodeslega [Ab- 

 berley] 2^ hides ; Rudmerlega [Redmarley in 

 Witley] ji hides ; Estlega [Astley] i hide 

 that pays geld [geldans) and I hide that is 

 free ; ' Sceldeslega [Shelsley] i hide ; Alme- 

 lega Ricardi de Fortes [Elmley Lovett] 11 

 hides.!" 



Fitz Archembald ; * at Wich [Droitwich] 

 half a hide (held by) Gunfrei ; * also at Wich 

 [Droitwich] i hide of St. Guthlac's ' land, 

 which Robert Fitz William holds ; there 

 also half a hide of Cormell', which Gilbert 

 holds ; * (at) Cokehulla [Cookley ?] 2^ hides 

 of the King's fief ; ^ (at) Hactona [Acton 

 Beauchamp] 3 hides of the fief of the bishop 

 of Bayeux ; ^ (at) Escreueleia [Shrawley] i 

 hide.'' Total of the whole : 264^ hides and 

 half a virgate. 



The land of Roger de Toeney : — Estha 



Roughly speaking, the date of the survey of which this is a 

 fragment, is a generation later than that of the Hundred of Oswald- 

 slow. For two great Worcestershire landowners, Walter de Beauchamp 

 and Hugh Fitz Osbern, had been respectively succeeded by their sons, 

 William de Beauchamp and Osbern Fitz Hugh. The name of Roger ' de 

 Toeney ' also points to the reign of Stephen. Careful examination 

 proves that all the earlier portion, all, that is, down to ' The land of 

 Roger de Toeney,' is concerned with the holdings of William de Beau- 

 champ in the Hundreds of (' Kerselau '), 'Came,' Pershore, ' Leisse,' 

 Clent and Dodingtree. It is only here, I believe, that the 300 hides, of 

 which the abbey of Westminster was supposed to hold 200, and the 

 abbey of Pershore 100, are definitely termed the Hundred of Pershore, 

 just as the Hundred of Oswaldslow consisted of 300 hides. And the 

 prior rights of Pershore Abbey are thereby confirmed." The object of 

 the Survey seems, as usual, to have been the ascertainment of the liability 

 to ' geld.' But it is a singular feature of the document, that while Roger 

 de Toeney's lands are all of them those which he held as a tenant-in-chief, 

 those of William de Beauchamp are, almost exclusively, lands that he held 

 as under-tenant. It is in the latter's succession to his maternal grand- 

 father Urse (and, at Wadborough, to Urse's brother, Robert) that consists 



! It lies between Salwarpe and Droitwich, 

 and was held in capite by William Goizen- 

 boded in 1086. Robert Fitz Archembald 

 was a benefactor to St. Peter's, Gloucester, in 

 1 128 (see its Cartulary in Rolls Series). 



* It was held of Urse by Gunfrei, as in 

 ' Witone,' in 1086. 



3 It had been held of St. Guthlac by Nigel 

 the leech in 1086. 



* This entry is obscure. No land at 

 Droitwich is assigned to the Abbey of 

 Cormeilles in Domesday. The probable 

 explanation is that the MS. itself is in fault 

 — and ought, instead of ' also there,' to have 

 read : ' In the hundred of Dodintre,' to 

 which belong the four places which follow. 

 The above half hide would then be that at 

 Tenbury, which was held in 1086 by the 

 abbey of Cormeilles. 



^ Which Urse had held in capite, as at 



* Cochehi,' in 1086. 



" These are the 3 ' gelding ' hides so held 

 there by Urse in 1086. 



' This would seem to be the first mention 

 of Shrawley, of which the early history is 

 obscure. It was, however, afterwards held 

 by Poher under Beauchamp, and by Beau- 

 champ of ' the heirs of Tony.' 



* Between Rock and Abberley. 



^ These are the 2 hides that he retained 

 there, after giving 4 to St. Taurin (see Domes- 

 day). 



" The above holdings are identical with 

 those composing the Domesday fief of Ralf de 



* Todeni ' ; and the assessments are the same, 

 except that Bayton is i virgate more, Moor 

 I virgate more, Worsley half a hide more. 



See pp. 251, 257 above. 



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