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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS manor Ralf the priest holds, with i hide and half a virgate, and Rainald 2 hides and half a virgate. One plough is there and I villein. The whole, T.R.E., was worth 15 pounds; and afterwards 12 pounds. Now what the king has (is worth) 10 pounds; what Ralf has, 40 shillings; what Rainald has, 30 shil- lings. The king holds CONTONE [Compton 1 ] in demesne. King Edward held it. There are 3 hides all but i virgate. There is land for 8 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs ; and (there are) 6 villeins and 12 bordars with 6 ploughs. There are 3 serfs and 4 acres of meadow, and woodland to render (de) 3 swine. This woodland Henry de Ferrers holds. T.R.E. and afterwards it was worth 6 pounds ; now (it is worth) 8 pounds. IN CHENETEBERIE [KINTBURY] HUNDRET The King holds CHENETEBERIE [Kintbury 2 ] in demesne. King Edward held it. There are 2 hides. There is land for 10 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs ; and (there are) 15 villeins and 16 bordars with 8 ploughs. There are 2 serfs and 2 mills worth (de) 32 shillings and 6 pence ; and 40 acres of mea- dow, and woodland to render (de) 3 swine. T.R.E., as afterwards and now, it was worth IO pounds. Henry de Ferrers holds of this manor 43 acres of land which were in the king's ferm T.R.E., according to the testi- mony of the shire(moot). They state also that the sheriff Godric made this into pasture land for his own horses ; but by what warrant they do not know (Sed ntsciunt quomodo). The King holds ESELDEBORNE [Shalbourn 2 ] in demesne. King Edward held it. There are 6J hides. There is land for 10 ploughs. On the demesne are 3 ploughs, and (there are) 1 4 villeins and 1 3 bordars with 6 ploughs. There are 3 serfs and a mill worth (de) 10 shillings and 8 acres of meadow and woodland to provide fencing (ad clausuram). T.R.E. and afterwards it was worth 1 2 pounds ; now 20 pounds. From this manor 2^ hides were added (missa) to the manor of Henry (de Fer- rers), I hide was land in the hands of the reeve (fult de Reve land), another belonged to the villeins, and the half hide belonged to the king's ferm ; but it was transferred (foris- missa) in the time of the sheriff Godric. This the whole shire(moot) attests. 1 Now in the Hundred of Compton. J Now in the Hundred of Kintbury Eagle. The King holds EDDEVETONE 3 [Eddington 4 ] in demesne. Azor held it as an alod of King Edward. (It was) then (assessed) at I o hides ; now (it is assessed) at 2 (hides) all but half a virgate. There is land for 6 ploughs. On the demesne is i plough ; and there are 6 villeins and 2 bordars with 2 ploughs. A serf is there and a mill worth (de) 15 shillings, and 34 acres of meadow, and woodland to render (de) 10 swine. T.R.E. it was worth 6 pounds; after- wards 100 shillings; now 70 shillings. IN LAMBORNE [LAMBOURN] HUNDRET The King holds LAMBORNE [Lambourn and (Upper) Lambourn 6 ] in demesne. King Edward held it. There are 20 hides. There is land for 42 ploughs. On the demesne are 4 ; and (there are) 44 villeins and 60 bordars with 25 ploughs. There are 6 serfs and a church with i hide belonging to it and 2 mills worth (de) 20 shillings, and woodland to render (de) i o swine. T.R.E. it was worth 49 pounds and afterwards 34 ; now 44 pounds. IN EGLEI [EAGLE] HUNDRET In FALESLEI [Little Fawley 7 ] 8 the king 3 Probably for Eddenetone (F.W.R.). 4 In Hungerford. Now in the Hundred of Kintbury Eagle. 6 Now in the Hundred of Lambourn. The Lambourn fees are difficult to trace. In the text the whole of Lambourn appears divided between the King, Hascoit Musard, Geoffrey de Mannevile, and Mathew of Mortain. Hascoit's holding is accounted for in Testa de Nevill (p. 122) as still part of the Musard fief; but there is nothing to tell us in which Lam- bourn it lay. In Upper Lambourn (Testa, p. 128) William Briwar is stated to have held 10 librates of land given by King John without service speci- fied, this went later (Testa, p. no) to William Gernon as half a knight's fee ; and Richard ' Wallensis ' is stated to have held land worth seven pounds and ten shillings, also given by King John without service specified. These grants would therefore appear to have been made out of demesne. In Chipping Lambourn (Testa, p. iz8)Hawisia de Dinant is stated to hold land in chief worth twenty- two pounds and ten shillings, held by her late husband, Fulk fitz Warin, but given to her father, Joceus de Dinan, by Henry II. ; and William de Plugeney (Pluknet) held half a knight's fee in chief also in Chipping Lambourn. If one may conclude that these holdings also were granted from demesne, it would point to the King's land being in both Lambourns. The holding of Mathew of Mortain seems to be different from all of these (4 hides value fifty shillings). For Geoffrey's holding see (p. 358) below (F.W.R.). 7 Now in the Hundred of Kintbury Eagle. 8 See note on ' Farellei,' land of the church of Amesbury (p. 344 below). 331