SOME EARLY SURVEYS 



('Berton') of Gloucester Ralf Fitz Ringulf 

 holds half a hide.* Of the monks of Glou- 

 cester Baldwin and Lithulf (hold) half a hide.^ 

 Of the earl of Warwick Randulf and Essulf 

 sons of Ringulf hold 3 virgates. Of Walter 

 del Burc» Randulf and Essulf (hold) half a 

 hide. Of Westminster Theobald and Walter 

 Fitz {fir) Thorald (hold) i hide.* Of Alm- 



lega [Elmley Lovett], the son of Aiulf and 

 his mother i hide.* Of Battona ^ Aiulf the 

 priest (holds) one virgate. Of Wichebold 

 [Wichbold] Roger de Bolles (holds) i virgate.' 

 Of the monks the son of Grim holds i vir- 

 gate. Of Kinefare [Kinver] and Doverdale 

 I virgate. Alewi Caure and his fellows 

 {socit) half a virgate. 



This Survey is roughly dated by the name of Walter de Beauchamp, 

 and probably belongs to the closing years of the reign of Henry I., when 

 his trusted officer Payn Fitz John was much to the front. It will 

 be observed that the portion of Witton (in Droitwich) held by Peter 

 ' Corbezun ' ^ is distinguished by his own name, according to the practice 

 described above (p. 330). The most interesting name in the Survey is 

 that of John de Sudeley (' Suthlega '),* for he was that son of Harold, 

 the Domesday tenant at Droitwich, from whom descended, in the male 

 line, the Sudeleys and the Tracys of Toddington. It is just possible that 

 his Droitwich tenant was that Richard who was a younger son of his 

 brother Robert of Ewyas. Although the tenant of St. Guthlac's hide is 

 here given as William Fitz Richard, it is entered in the later Survey 

 (p. 329 above) as held by his son Robert Fitz William of William de 

 Beauchamp. This is probably connected with Urse's position as holding 

 of Nigel the leech, St. Guthlac's under-tenant, at Dunclent ; for it was 

 Nigel who had held this hide of St. Guthlac. The few small holdings at 

 the end of the Survey are obscure and difficult to explain. Among the 

 under-tenants, it should be observed, the names of Englishmen still occur. 



* This was the half hide assigned in 

 Domesday to the King's hall at Gloucester. 



* As held in 1086 by St. Peter's Abbey, 

 Gloucester. 



^ This was the name of the Domesday 

 under-tenant of Estbury in Hallow. 



* This hide had been held of Westminster 

 Abbey by ' two priests ' in 1086. 



* This hide immediately follows the en- 

 try on Elmley Lovett in Domesday. It was 



then held in capite by Ralf de 'Todeni.' 



^ This name is badly written, and I cannot 

 identify it. 



' Domesday records several * burgesses ' at 

 Droitwich as appurtenant to Wichbold. 



* Alias Peter de Stodley, founder of Studley 

 Priory (see p. 269, note 4 above). 



® It must be he who is entered on the Pipe 

 Roll of 1 130 (p. 79) as owing 10 marcs for 

 ' his wife's pleas.' 



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