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 A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE There are 10 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it was worth 100 shillings, afterwards the same ; now 6 pounds. The same count holds CERLECOTE [Char- Domesday entry mentions a priest. Wormleighton certainly was in ' Honesberie ' Hundred, and so, no doubt, were Warmington, Arlescote and Fenny Compton. Nos. 3 and 4 are, also, if we judge by juxta- position, to be identified with Fenny Compton, for they occur in Domesday Book between Ratley, which is rubricated as in ' Honesberie ' Hundred, and Wormleighton, which, as we have already seen, is in that Hundred. (The occurrence of ' Moitone,' which intervenes, may, I think, be dis- regarded.) Having travelled independently in our argument thus far, we now turn our attention to the hidage, and finding that the 4 hides 3 virgates of No. 2, the 2 hides of No. 3 and the 3 hides I virgate of No. 4 make up exactly 10 hides, we may conclude that our identifications are justified. Coming now to No. 5, we find it following two places, Fulready and Eatington rubricated as in ' Tremelau ' Hundred, and coming before 'Cestre- tone' (Chesterton), which we know to have been in the same Hundred. I therefore identify this with Compton Murdak (now Compton Verney), which, in treating of No. I, we found good reason to con- clude was in 'Tremelau' Hundred. Again, putting our identification to the hidage test, we find that the 7 hides of I and the 3 hides of this No. 5 make up a lo-hide place. There remains only No. 7 with its I hide. This, by the process of exhaustion, I might affirm to be Compton Wyniates (called in Dugdale's map ' Compton-in-the-HoIe '), always the smallest and least important of the Comptons, except, perhaps, Compton Scorfen. The difficulty, however, is that Compton Wyniates does not afterward appear in the Barony of Stafford, but is found to be held by the service of half a knight's fee under Turchil's descendants, the Ardcns, who held it under the Earls of Warwick (Testa, p. 98). We should therefore have expected to find it identical with one of the first five, and more especially with one of Nos. 3, 4 and 5. The explanation I suggest is, that Alwin, who held No. 7 under Robert de Stafford, was identi- cal with Alwin who held No. 5 under Turchil. It is always inconvenient to serve two masters, and it is not unlikely that one of the Staffords passed this estate over to be held under Turchil or the Earls of Warwick. This would be all the more probable if Alwin were, as his name may indicate, a blood-relation of Turchil, the latter being son of Alwin the sheriff. Before bringing this long note to a close, I may say that the modern acreage and rateable value of the respective Comptons, and their assessments under Edward III., do, on the whole, support my identifications. But, on the other hand, Mr. Round does not think this explanation of how Compton Wyniates came to be held of the Earls of Warwick satisfactory. lecote]. 1 Saxi held it and was a free man. There are 3 hides. There is land for 5 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and 7 serfs ; and (there are) 14 villeins and 2 bordars with 5 ploughs. There are 2 mills worth (de) 21 shillings, and 12 acres of meadow. T.R.E. and afterwards it was worth 50 shillings ; now 4 pounds. IN FERNECUMBE HUNDRET The same count holds SCIREBURNE [Sher- borne]. Edric and Leueget held it and were free. There are 2$ hides. There is land for 6 ploughs. In the demesne are 1 1 ploughs and 4 serfs ; and 9 villeins with a priest and 2 bordars have 2 ploughs. There are 16 acres of meadow. T.R.E. it was worth 60 shillings, and afterwards 40 shillings ; now 50 shillings. The same count holds FULEBROC [Ful- brook]. 2 Alfled held it and was free (liber a). There are 2j hides. There is land for 8 ploughs. In the demesne are ploughs, and 4 serfs ; and (there are) 10 villeins and 3 bordars with 5 ploughs. There is a mill worth (de) 12 shillings, and 8 acres of mea- dow. T.R.E. it was worth 60 shillings, and afterwards 40 shillings ; now 60 shillings. fo. 240 The same count holds SNITEFELD [Snitter- field]. 3 Sexi held it and was a free man. There are 4 hides. There is land for 14 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and i O serfs ; and 1 1 villeins with a priest and 4 bordars have 6 ploughs. There are 1 2 acres of mea- dow. T.R.E. and afterwards it was worth 4 pounds ; now IOO shillings. The same count holds CLAVENDONE [Claverdon]. 3 Boui held it, and was a free man. There are 3 hides. There is land for 5 ploughs. In the demesne is I ; and 12 villeins with a priest and 14 bordars have 5 ploughs. There are 3 serfs, and 16 acres of meadow. And i league of wood(land) when it bears (cum oneraf is worth 10 shillings. It (Claverdon) was worth 40 shillings ; now 4 pounds. 1 Charlecote is in the modern Hundred of Kineton, and being in the same corner of it as the four preceding places, may well have been, as they probably all were, in ' Tremelau ' Hundred. 2 Fulbrook is a small place within a mile of Sherborne and was doubtless in the same Hundred. 3 Snitterfield, Claverdon, Preston and Kington, being afterward in Barlichway Hundred, but not in the Liberty of Pathlow, were doubtless in the Domesday Hundred of ' Fernecumbe.'