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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS XXIX. THE LAND OF OSBERN GIFARD IN CERLEDONE [CHARLTON] HUNDRET Osbern Gifard holds HERLEI [Earley *] a of the king. Don held it in alod of King Ed- ward. It was then (assessed) at 5 hides ; now (it is assessed) at 2 hides. There is land for 7 ploughs. On the demesne are i ploughs ; and (there are) 4 villeins and 7 bordars with l. ploughs. There is i serf, and there are 2 fisheries worth (de) 68 pence, and 20 acres of meadow, and woodland to render (de) 30 swine. It was worth 100 shillings (T.R.E.) ; and afterwards 60 shillings ; now 4 pounds. XL. THE LAND OF ROBERT SON OF GIROLD IN TACEHAM [THATCHAM] HUNDRET Robert son of Girold holds BRINTONE [Brimpton 3 ]. Brictric held it in alod of King Edward. It was then (assessed) at 4^ hides ; now (it is assessed) at 3^ hides. There is land for 4 ploughs. On the demesne are i^ ploughs ; and (there are) 5 villeins and 3 bor- dars and I English knight (miles) with three ploughs. One serf is there, and a church and 2 mills worth (de) 26 shillings and 3 pence, and 35 acres of meadow. It is and was worth 4 pounds and 10 shillings. IN CHENETBERIE [KINTBURY] HUNDRET The same Robert holds INGLEFOL [Ingle- wood 1 ]. 5 Two freemen held it of King Edward 1 Now in the Hundred of Charlton. 8 Earley appears in Testa de Nevill as having I knight's fee belonging to the Fief of Elyas Giffard of ' Brumesfield ' (F.W.R.). a Now in the Hundred of Faircross. The ' Inglefol ' of this entry is the ' Ingleflot' which occurs, as in Kintbury Hundred, near the end of the Berks Survey (see below), and must also be the ' Ingleflot ' of an entry just after it. It has been wrongly identified with Hungerford, and Mr. Ragg adduces on behalf of that identification Camden's statement that Hungerford was named in old times ' Ingleford Charnam Street.' This wholly unsupported statement is completely dis- proved by record evidence which proves that those two names were entirely distinct so far back as the days of Henry III., when they appear in the Testa as ' Ingeflod ' and ' Hungerford,' and in charters, similarly as ' Ingleflod ' and ' Hu(n)gerford ' (Cal- endar of Charter Rolls). Finally, the survey of '1284' (Feudal Aids, '. Jo) enters 'Kenetbury' (Kintbury) with ' Engleiiod Belet ' (Inglewood) and its other hamlets separately from ' Hunger- forde ' with its hamlets. There is further evidence which enables us to as 2 manors. Then as now it was (assessed) at 3 hides. There is land for [ ]. On the demesne is i plough, and there are 7 bordars with i plough. One serf is there and 4 acres of meadow and a small woodland. It was formerly worth 30 shillings ; now 2O shillings. XLI. THE LAND OF ROBERT DE OILGI IN EGLEI [EAGLE] HUNDRET Robert de Olgi holds CEDELEDORDE [Chaddleworth ']. Edward held it in alod of King Edward as a manor. Then as now it was assessed at 4 hides. There is land for 2 ploughs. On the demesne is I plough ; and there are 2 villeins and 2 bordars with half a plough ; also 3 serfs and i acre of meadow. There is woodland to render (de) IO swine. It was worth 60 shillings (T.R.E.) j after- wards 30 shillings ; and now 40 shillings. The same Robert holds LEDECUMBE [Let- combe Bassett 8 ]. Wigot held it of King Edward. It was then assessed at 10 hides; now (it is assessed) at 7 hides. There is land for 7 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs ; and (there are) 14 villeins and 8 bordars with 5 ploughs. There are 4 serfs and 2 mills worth (de) 3 pounds, and 36 acres of meadow. T.R.E. and afterwards it was worth 15 pounds ; now 1 6 pounds. The same Robert holds in SIFORD [Shef- ford] 6 i hides of the Bishop of Bayeux's fee.* Bristei held it of King Edward and could go to what lord he wished (potuit ire quo voluif). Then as now it was assessed at I ^ hides. On the demesne is i plough ; and (there are) 4 bordars and 2 serfs and a mill worth (de) 8 shillings and i acre of meadow, and woodland to provide fencing (ad clausurani). It was (formerly) worth 30 shillings ; now 20 shil- lings. trace back the name of ' Hungerford ' to within a generation of Domesday. In 1175 the men of ' Hungerford ' account for ihefrma of their town (probably during the disgrace of the Earl of Lei- cester) (Pipe Roll, 21 Henry II. p. 135), and in the writer's Calendar oj Documents preserved in France, p. 123, the Count of Meulan, ancestor of the Earls of Leicester (the subsequent lords of Hungerford), granted by a charter of II oi-l 1 18 to the canons of Beaumont ' a certain manor near Hungerford, Edevetone by name ' (the ' Eddevetona ' of Domes- day) (J.H.R.). ' See Introduction. Now in the Hundred of Kintbury Eagle. 359