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 A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE HASELEIA [Haseley]. There are 3 hides and half a virgate of land. There is land for 2 ploughs. In the demesne is I ; and 3 vil- leins with a priest and 7 bordars have 2 ploughs. There is a mill worth (de) 4 shillings, and 6 acres of meadow. Wood(land) I league long and 2 furlongs. It was worth 2O shil- lings ; now 30 shillings. Azur held it freely. XL. THE LAND OF NICOLAS THE CROSSBOWMAN (Balistarii) IN TREMELAU HUNDRET Nicolas the Crossbowman (Balistarius) holds of the king 3 hides and I virgate of land in ALNODESTONE [Aylestone in Atherstone on Stour]. 1 There is land for 5 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and 4 serfs and 3 bondwomen ; and (there are) 9 villeins and 3 bordars with 3 ploughs. It was and is worth 60 shillings. Leuric held it freely. IN FERNECUMBE HUNDRET The same Nicolas holds 5 hides and I virgate of land in HASELOUE [Haselor]. 2 There is land for 9 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 ploughs, and 5 serfs and bondwomen (inter servos et ancillas); and 1 6 villeins with i bordar have 7 ploughs. There is a mill worth (de) 6 shillings and 8 pence ; and a saltpan (sa/ina 3 ) pays 4 shillings and 2 loads (summas) of salt. There 2 Frenchmen ( frandg") and i burgess render seven pence halfpenny. It was worth 4 pounds ; now 6 pounds. Ul- viet and Alvric held it freely. XLI. THE LAND OF NIGEL DE ALBINGI Nigel de Albingi holds of the king AL- DULVESTREU [Austrey]. 4 There are 5^ hides 1 This is Dugdale's identification (p. 486) and is doubtless correct, 'Tremelau' Hundred being afterward merged in Kineton Hundred in which Aylestone is situate. In the Subsidy Roll of I Edward III. the name appears as ' Ailuastone.' 2 Haselor is in Barlichway Hundred, in which ' Fernecumbe ' Hundred is merged. Nicolas de la Pole (whom Dugdale considers identical with this Nicolas) appears later as concerned both in Haselor and Aylestone. ' See Introduction, p. 293. 4 This is clear ; and doubtless it was this Nigel who also held an estate of z-J- hides here under Henry de Ferrieres. Including the zi hides held by Burton Abbey, the total hidage was i o hides and 3 virgates. It looks as if the latter assessment had been super-imposed upon the former. Austrey was doubtless in the Domesday Hundred of ' Coles- helle.' and i virgate of land. There is land for 10 ploughs. In the demesne are 2, and 12 vil- leins with a priest and 8 bordars have 5 ploughs. There is meadow (pratt) i furlong long and another broad. 8 It was worth 6 pounds ; now 3 pounds. Eight thegns held it freely T.R.E. The same Nigel holds 1 hides in ALTONE [? Hatton]. 8 There is land for 4 ploughs. There are 3 villeins with i bordar who have (habentei) 2j ploughs. It was and is worth 2O shillings. Ulwin and Leuric held it freely. XLII. THE LAND OF CRISTINA 7 IN COLESHELLE [CoLESHILL] HuNDRET Cristina holds of the king 8 hides in ULVERLEI [Solihull]. 8 There is land for 20 ploughs. In the demesne is i, and 3 serfs ; and 22 villeins with a priest and 4 bordars have 7 ploughs. There are 12 acres of meadow. Wood(land) 4 leagues long and half B Austrey meadows are of sufficient importance to be marked on the map between Austrey and Shuttington. J.H.R. 8 I think this is possible. Otherwise Hatton, an ancient parish which included Shrewley and Beausale, was omitted from Domesday Book. Hugh fitz Richard was the successor of Nigel de Albingi in Austrey, and it was, I feel sure, as such successor that he held Hatton, even though the overlordship was in the Earls of Warwick. Dug- dale ignores this entry, but does not make his fre- quent suggestion that Hatton was ' involved ' in any other place. Hatton, being afterward in Barlichway Hundred, not in Pathlow Liberty, was doubtless in the Domesday Hundred of ' Ferne- cumbe.' But the history of these two manors is at present obscure, and Mr. Round says he cannot accept this conclusion because Nigel de Albini's barony, of which Cainhoe, Beds, was the head, remained for generations in the hands of his heirs ; and because, although Dugdale no doubt considered that he was succeeded at Austrey by Hugh fitz Richard, the Burton Abbey document on which he relied ends by speaking of Albini of Cainhoe as the overlord. 7 See Introduction, p. 281. 8 I have no doubt that Dugdale is right in this identification. The name of Hullerley survived in the parish in his day, and the Ordnance maps now show a district called ' The Ulleries,' and also an Ulverley Green, the latter preserving the Domes- day name. Moreover, the Limesis who succeeded Cristina in both Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, undoubtedly held Solihull. It is not surprising that a priest is mentioned, for the dedication of the church, being to S. Alphege, was doubtless pre-conquestual. 340