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This Alured the Briton is so called to distinguish him from 
another Alured, the Spaniard. He was by no means so fortunate 
with all his manors as he was with those bordering the Tavy ; for 
several elsewhere show a decrease of value. In this district, how- 
ever, he was certainly, if we may judge by results, the leading 
agriculturist of his day, or else the hardest taskmaster. Perhaps 
both descriptions will apply. 
There is only one manor west of the Tavy to which I need call 
attention, but that is an important one — Birland or Beer — held 
by Ordulf in the days of the Confessor, but in Norman times by 
Eeginald of Valletort, under the Earl of Moreton. It is one of the 
most extensive manors noted in the district, having land for fifteen 
ploughs, and a population of twenty-nine, including three swine- 
herds, who rendered fifteen swine yearly, and seven salt-works, 
rendering ten shillings. The value here, as in the other Tavy 
manors, had gone up — from sixty shillings to a hundred. 
There is another manor named Tamarlande, which apparently 
adjoined Birland on the west, and continued the river frontage. 
The common termination " land " at least suggests association. It 
seems in some cases to have been specially used of a peninsular 
area — a tract mainly bounded or enclosed by the sea or by a river ; 
and thus to be somewhat analogous to representing) the Keltic 
lan — " an enclosure." 
Tracing now the course of the Plym northwards, along its western 
bank, adjoining Leuricestone we have the easily -identifiable Lisis- 
tone (Lipson). This had belonged to Godwin \ but it had come into 
the possession of the powerful Count of Moreton, and, therefore, 
almost as a matter of course, was held by Reginald of Valletort, the 
most important " tenant " in this locality. Then, as since, Lisistone 
was a place of small importance ; still it had an enumerated popu- 
lation of eight against the three of Leuricestone. Next to Lisistone 
comes Elforde — the modern Efford — a manor held by Robert the 
Bastard in demesne, which had belonged to Alwin. It was an 
estate of fair dimensions, but the chief points in connection with 
it are that it had increased in value from ten to twenty shillings, 
and that it had a fishery worth twelve pence a year. Probably 
this was in the Plym. In later times there was a fishery of some 
value in what was called Dee myl, or Demyll, poole j but no mill is 
