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 THE ANCESTOR 249 Combe i fee Berard le Bret Nash 1 i „ Ralf de St. Ouen Knill i „ John de Lyngayne Berrington ^ (?) i Thomas de Lyngayne [Oxfordshire] Nether Kiddington l fee Henry de Willamescote [Northamptonshire] Litchborough f fee William Poer [Somerset] Marsh Huntley (in Yeovil). . |- fee John de Hunteleye Kingstone by Yeovil ^. . . . i „ Robert Fitz Payne Shropshire Milson i fee Hugh Godard Weston* ^ „ Earl of Lincoln Romsley and Badger .... i „ Leo de Rommesleigh Greet ^ i „ Philip de Grete Stoke ^ i „ Henry le Moncour, Margery la Blak Court of Hill 5 la Hull ') . . „ William de la Hull Ashford Carbonel and Overton ^ ^ ,f Hugh Carbonel Stanage ^ „ Edmund de Cornwall Worcestershire Clifton-on-Teme -I fee Roger de Mortimer Kyre Wyard ^ „ John Wyard Sutton Sturmy (in) Tenbury and Tenbury 2 „ Henry de Lacy In this list, it will be seen, the old Herefordshire families of Hopton, Lingen and Hill (of Court of Hill) have already- emerged as tenants by knight service. A century earlier, under John, none of their names are found in a list of tenants of the Honour, arranged under counties, in The Red Book of the Exchequer (pp. 603-5) which is of interest for comparison with the abstract I have given above. Such lists as these, where they exist, are the backbone of county history. 1 On the Herefordshire border between Combe and Knill. 2 Given as * Heriton.' Domesday enters ' Beritune ' in Worcestershire as held by Osbern Fitz Richard, so that it ought to occur among these fees. It is in the north-west corner of the county on the Herefordshire border. Habington speaks of it as * aunciently Beriton.' 2 Alias Kingston Pitney. A member of Burford. ^ Members of Burford.
 * Kyngeshemed ' and Nash ° ., ^ „ Robert Sturmy
 * Overe' Robert Sturmy