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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS On the demesne are 4 ploughs, and (there are) 1 1 villeins and 1 5 bordars, and a reeve, and a radman. Among them all (are) 7 ploughs. (There are) 6 serfs there, and 5 oxmen and a smith. T.R.E. it v?as worth -jli. Now looj. fol. 184. X. LAND OF ROGER DE LACI In Cutestorn Hundred In the jurisdiction of Ewias [Ewyas Harold] Castle {castellaria) Earl William gave to Walter de Laci 4 carucates of land (which are) waste. Roger de Laci his son holds them, and William and Osbern of him. On the demesne they have 2 ploughs and (there are) 4 Welshmen rendering 2 sestiers of honey. They have I plough. There they have 3 serfs and 2 bordars. This land is worth 20s. The same Roger has an estate called EwiAS [Ewyas Lacy] ^* on the borders of Ewias [unam terram Ewias dictam in fine Ewias). This land does not belong to the jurisdiction of the castle {castellaria) nor to the hundred. From this land Roger has 1 5 sestiers of honey and 1 5 swine, when the men are there, and (he has) pleas over them. Within the jurisdiction of Clif(f)ord Castle the same Roger holds 4 carucates of land. His father held them. They were, and are, waste. In Gretrewes Hundred The same Roger holds Poteslepe [Putley], and William of him. Thostin held (it). There (is) I hide geldable. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 2 villeins and i bordar with 2 ploughs. (There are) 2 serfs there. It is, and was, worth 2 ox. In Tornelaus Hundred The same Roger holds Acle [Ocle Pychard].'* Six freemen held (it) as 6 manors and could betake themselves whither they would. There are 7 hides geldable. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 7 villeins and 10 bordars, and a reeve [prepositus) and a smith with 9 ploughs among them all. (There are) 12 serfs there. Of this land Walter de Laci gave to St. Peter of Hereford 2 carucates of land with the consent of King William, and i villein and i bordar with their lands. There are there on the demesne 2 ploughs, and (there are) i villein and I bordar with i plough. And (there is) I serf there. It is worth 251. •* Now Longtown. " Roger Pichard held four hides here of the Honour of Weobley in 1243 (J.H.R.), What Roger holds is worth 75/, All these lands T.R.E. were worth yli. and i^s. The same Roger holds Magge [Maund],^* and William of him. Ailric held (it). There are 2 hides geldable. On the demesne are 2 ploughs and 5 serfs. And there might be 2 more ploughs there. It was worth 30X. Now 2^s. The same Roger has in Waia [the Wye] a fishery which is valued at 6li. The burgesses whom he has in Hereford render him 20;. The same Roger holds Magene [Maund Bryan] ; and Hugh of him. Wonni held (it). There i hide pays geld. And 1 plough is on the demesne, and (there are) 3 serfs there. It was worth 2 ox., and afterwards I Ox. Now (it is worth) 15X. The same Roger holds Bodeham [Bodenham], and Herbert of him. Edwi held (it). There are i^ hides geldable. On the demesne are 2 ploughs and (there are) 6 villeins and 3 bordars and a smith and a beadle and 6 cottars with 6 ploughs. (There are) 6 serfs there, and a mill worth i6x. and 30 sticks of eels. There is meadow (sufficient) for the oxen only. T.R.E. it was worth 50X. Now 6ox. The same Roger holds in the same hundred, and Herbert of him, a manor of i virgate. It does not pay geld. This Edwi Cilt held with i plough. It is, and was, worth 26d. The same Roger holds I hide belonging to the ferm of Maurdine [Marden] the King's manor {tenet unam hidam de firma Maurdine M. regis). Ingelran holds (it) of him. On the de- mesne are 2 ploughs and (there are) 4 villeins and I bordar with 2 ploughs. (There are) 3 serfs there. T.R.E. and afterwards it was worth 40X. Now 60X. Edwi Cilt held (it). In Ulfei Hundred The same Roger holds Wenetone [Woonton],. and Gerald of him. Ernewi held (it). There are 3 virgates geldable, and there is I plough there. It was worth 6x. Now 41. The same Roger holds Hed [Heath in Lays- ters], and Gerald of him. Lewin held (it). There are 3 virgates geldable. It is worth 6x. The same Roger holds Pillesdune [Pudle- ston],^' and Hugh of him. Wlward held (it). " These two hides were held as ' Magene Albini ' in 1243 by Isabel Devereux of Roger Pichard, Roger holding them of the Honour of Weobley (J.H.R.). were entered in 1243 as held 'of the Honour of Richard's Castle ' (J.H.R.). 329 42
 * ' These three hides in Pudleston (' Puclesdun ')