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 A HISTORY OF HEREFORDSHIRE the demesne are 3 ploughs and 3 serfs, and (there is) a reeve (prepositus) with I plough. (There is) meadow there [blank in MSJ]. The land is for 3 ploughs. It was worth 60s, Now 50^. To this manor belongs a berwick. Lefled held it. (There are) 2 hides there. One of them pays geld as the county witnesses. There Nigel has in demesne 2 ploughs and 2 serfs and I bordar and a radman with land without a plough. It is, and was, worth 40J. In Tornelaus Hundred The same Nigel holds Bolelei [Bowley], and Ralf of him. Leflet held (it). (There is) there I hide free from geld and from the King's ser- vice. On the demesne are 2 ploughs and 2 ox- men. There is land for 4 ploughs. It was worth 255. Now 20s. The same Nigel holds Sutune [Sutton]. Le- flet held (it). There are 2 hides geldable. On the demesne is I plough and 2 oxmen ; and (there are) 4 bordars and 2 cottars with I plough, and a Frenchman with I plough. There (is) meadow for the oxen, and a mill which Hugh Asne holds of Nigel renders 8x. and 8 sticks of eels. T.R.E. it was worth 6oi., and afterwards 305. ; now 50i. This manor Hugh held in the time of William. The same Nigel held Sutune [Sutton], Spirites the priest held (it). There is I hide geldable. The land is for 2 ploughs. They are on the demesne, and (there are) 4 serfs and I bordar, and a mill worth 10s. and 7 sticks of eels, and meadow for the oxen only. It is, and was, worth 30X. The same Nigel holds Mage [Maund]. Leflet held (it) of St. Guthlac. There are 2 hides geld- able. There are there 7 villeins with 5 ploughs. It was worth 40J. Now 30^ The same Nigel holds Tingehele [Thinghill], and Geoffrey (Gohfridui) of him. Spirtes held (it). There is i hide not geldable. On the demesne are 2 ploughs and 4 serfs. It is, and was, worth 20f. In Dunre Hundred The same Nigel holds Moches [Moccas], and Ansfrid of him. Ernuin held (it) of St. Guthlac. There is i hide there, and on the demesne (is) I plough. It is worth 15J. In Plegeliet Hundred The same Nigel holds Colore [? Cold Green in Bosbury]. Spirtes held (it). There (are) 3 hides geldable. On the demesne are 3 ploughs and 7 serfs, and there are 2 bordars and I free- man with I plough and 2 bordars. It was worth 50i., now 40X. The same Nigel holds Aweneburi [Aven- bury]. Spirtes held (it). There are 6 hides geldable. On the demesne are 3 ploughs and 4 serfs, and (there are) 22 villeins and 2 priests and I bordar with 12 ploughs. A mill there renders nothing. It is, and was, worth loo^. VIII. LAND OF RALF DE TODENI Ralf de Todeni holds the castle [castellum) of Cliford [Clifford]. Earl William erected [fecit) it on waste land which Bruning held T.R.E. There Ralf has land for 3 ploughs, but there is only i plough. This castle is (part) of the kingdom of England {est de regno anglie) ; it does not belong to {subjacet) any hundred nor (is it) liable to {in) customary dues. Gilbert the sheriff holds it at farm, with [et) the borough and the plough {car"). For the whole he renders 60^. In the jurisdiction of this castle {in hac castel- laria) Roger holds land for 4 ploughs, and Gilbert for 12 ploughs, and Drew for 5 ploughs, and Herbert for 2 ploughs. These have on the de- mesne 9 ploughs, and (they have) 16 burgesses and 13 bordars, and 5 Welshmen, and 6 serfs, and 4 bondwomen, and a mill rendering 3 muids of grain {modios annone), and 4 oxmen are there. The men have 3 ploughs. Among them all what they have is worth 8//. and 5j. And these and whatever other men have any- thing there hold of Ralf. In Hesetre Hundred The same Ralf holds Leine [Monkland], and St. Peter of Castellion [the abbey of Conches]'* of him. Elmar and Ulchete held (it) for 2 manors and could betake themselves whither they would. There are 5 hides geldable. One of these used not to pay geld because it was in demesne. (There) are there 2 ploughs and 10 villeins, and 8 bordars with 7 ploughs. (There are) there 3 serfs and a free oxman, and a mill rendering lis. and 25 sticks of eels. Of meadow-land 5j. besides the pasture of the oxen. T.R.E. it was worth bli., now 7/;'. In Elsedun Hundred The same Ralf holds Willaueslege [Wil- lersley] and Widferdestune [Winforton]. Earl Harold held (them). There are 4 hides geldable. On the demesne are 4 ploughs, and " Round, Cal. of Doc. France, 138. 326