286 Notes on the History of Gh°eat Somerford. 



8 coscets, with 2 carucates. There is a mill paying 5 

 shillings and 6 acres of meadow. The wood is 2 furlongs 

 long, and 1 furlong broad. It was and is worth 40 

 shillings. 

 (c) Eents of Edward of Salisbury, 



Teodric holds of Edward 3 J virgates of land in Somre- 

 forde, and it paid geld for so much. The land is 1 carucate, 

 which is there with 3 bordars, and 3 coscets. There is 

 part of a mill paying 15 pence and 5 acres of meadow, and 

 7 acres of pasture. Tn Malmesberie one house pays 15 

 pence. It was worth 15 shillings ; it is now worth 20 

 shillings. Scirold held it in the time of King Edward. 

 Canon Jones adds " The first is the half knight's fee which was 

 held 3 Ed. I. under the barony of Castle Combe by John Mautravers 

 and hence the name Somerford Maltravers, the second is the half 

 knight's fee owned by John Tregoz under the barony of Ewyas 

 and hence this portion was anciently called Somerford Ewyas, the 

 third is the land possessed at the same date by the Earl of Hereford, 

 a descendant of Edward of Salisbury, and is most likely the property 

 afterwards held by the nuns of St. Mary Priory, Kington St. 

 Michael, under Bohun, Earl of Hereford." The manner in which 

 the property in the parish was held, according to the earliest deeds 

 which seem now to be in existence, at the beginning of the seven- 

 teenth century agrees with this division. 



The Maltravers Manor. 



(a) Mr. Scrope in his " History of the Wiltshire Manors 

 subordinate to the Barony of Castle Combe," shows how the Manor 

 of Somerford Maltravers was held on condition of knight's service 

 under the heirs of Humphry de L'Isle for many centuries. The 

 property of Humphry passed with his daughter to the Dunstanville 

 family, then by marriage to Sir Robert de Montfort, whose son 

 sold this estate to Lord Badlesmere. We know nothing of the 

 Robert mentioned in Domesday as holding Sumreford under 

 Humphry, except that he occupied a considerable number of other 

 manors in this part of the country. The Maltravers came in about 



