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 A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE The same bishop holds in BEDEFORD [Bid- ford] * 2 J virgates of land, and Robert d'Olgi 2 of him. Ernulf and Ernegrin held it and were free men. There is land for 3 There is i free man and I serf and I bordar with i plough ; and 14 acres of meadow. Wood(Iand) 2 furlongs long and i broad. It was worth 12 pence ; now 10 shillings. The same bishop holds in BROME [Broom] * 4j hides, and Stephen (holds it) of him. Five free men held it T.R.E. There is land for 4 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 ; and there are 4 villeins and 10 bordars with 2 ploughs. There are 14 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it was worth 40 shillings, and afterwards 30 shillings ; now 60 shillings. V. THE LAND OF THE BISHOP OF COUTANCES The Bishop of Coutances holds half a hide in FILUNGELEI [Fillongley], 6 and Lewin (holds it) of him. There is land for 2 ploughs. In the demesne is I, with 2 serfs ; and 5 villeins with 2 bordars have I plough. There are 2 acres of meadow. (There is) wood (land) 2 furlongs long, and I furlong broad. It was worth 10 shillings ; now 30 shillings. Alwin held it freely. VI. THE LAND OF THE CHURCH OF COVENTRY IN COLESHELLE [CoLESHILI,] HuNDRET The abbey of Coventry (Coventreu) holds in FILUNGER [Fillongley] 8 half a hide. There is land for 2 ploughs. There are 8 villeins and 6 bordars with 2 ploughs. There is a quarter of a league of woodland ; when it bears (oneratur) it is worth 10 shillings. T.R.E. it was worth 7 10 shillings ; now 30 shillings. 1 Bidford is in Barlichway Hundred. 1 'Olgi' is interlined. 3 Here is a space left blank in the original. 4 Broom is a hamlet in Bidford, formerly divided into King's Broom and Burnett's Broom. This entry appears to relate to King's Broom. Fillongley is in Hemlingford Hundred. This would appear to have been the part which Gerard de Alspath held temp. Henry III. from the numb of Coventry by the name of Old Fillongley. Fillongley appears in Domesday Book as consisting of four half-hide estates, and it is difficult to piece them together. 7 Here is a space left blank, which should prob- ably have contained the T.R.E. value, and the word ' post.' IN MERETONE [MARTON] HUNDRET The same (ipsa) church (holds) (G) 8 RANE- BERGE [Grandborough]. There are 8 hides and i virgate. There is land for 1 7 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 ; and (there are) 27 villeins and II bordars and 4 serfs with 14 ploughs. There is a mill worth (de) 1 6 pence, and 32 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it wa. worth 6 pounds, and afterwards 100 shillings ; now 8 pounds. The same (ipsa) church holds SURLAND * [ ]. There are 6 hides. There is land for 12 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and 4 serfs ; and (there are) 26 villeins and 9 bordars with 8 ploughs. There are 40 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it was worth 7 pounds, and afterwards 4 pounds ; now 6 pounds. The same (Ipsa) church holds DERBINGERIE [Birdingbury]. 10 There are 2 hides. There is land for 4 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and 3 serfs ; and (there are) 4 villeins and 6 bordars with i plough. There are 6 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it was worth 40 shillings, and afterwards 20 shillings ; now 35 shillings. IN STANLEIE [STONELEIGH] HUNDRET The same (ipsa) church holds BILVEIE [Bin- ley]. 11 There are 3 hides. There is land for 8 ploughs. In the demesne is I plough, and 4 serfs ; and (there are) 10 villeins and 6 bor- dars with 5 ploughs. There are 8 acres of meadow. (There is) wood(land) half a league long, and i furlong broad. T.R.E., and now, worth 60 shillings. This land Aldgid wife of Grifin held. The abbey bought it from O(sbern) son of Richard. 8 The MS. is injured here. 8 This should apparently be some place which would afterward be in the leet of Marton. I cannot however in the subsequent history of the abbey find mention of any of its estates with a name bearing the slightest resemblance to Surland. I hazard the suggestion that, as it was obviously a place of importance, it was that part of Coventry known afterward as ' Coventry ex parte Prioris." If it was, I make the further suggestion that the reading should be ' Scirland," i .e. Shire-land, part of Earl Leofric's lands. 10 The uncouth form of the name is doubtless a scribe's error. Birdingbury was one of the town- ships given by Earl Leofric to the abbey. It was afterwards in the leet of Marton, and therefore doubtless in the Domesday Hundred of ' Meretone.' 11 This name in a subsequent entry (p. 323), and in other documents of later date, appears as Bilnei. The Domesday scribe doubtless mistook ' n ' for ' u,' which he wrote as ' v.' 304