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 HERE ARE ENTERED THE HOLDERS OF LAND IN WIRECESTRE SCIRE I King William II The church of Worcester III The bishop of Hereford nil The church of St. Denis V The church of Coventry VI The church of Cormelies VII The church of Gloucester VIII The church of Westminster IX The church of Pershore X The church of Evesham XI The bishop of Bayeux XII The church of St. Guthlac XIII The clerks of Wolverhampton* XIV Earl Roger THE KING'S LAND King W[illiam] holds in demesne Bre- MESGRAVE [Bromsgrove] with i8 berewicks : — Museleie [Moseley], Nortune [Kingsnor- ton], Lindeorde [Linthurst], Warthuil [Wit- hall ?], Witeurde [Whitford], Hundesfeld [Houndsfield], Thessale [Tessall farm], Weredeshale Lea [Lea end ?], Comble [Cobley ?], Bericote [Burcot], Asse- berga [ ], Tothehel [Tutnall Cross], Tuneslega [ ], Focheberie [Foch- bury], Suruehel [Surehole farm], Vdecote [Woodcote], Timbrehangre [Timberhanger].^ 1 ' Wrehantone.' ^ There is, admittedly, much difficulty in identifying some of the ' berewicks ' {i.e. out- lying estates) entered above as dependent on Bromsgrove. For some of the identifications in the text I am alone responsible. ' Lin- deorde ' I make to be Linthurst, 2 miles north-east of Bromsgrove ; ' Thessale ' is clearly Tessall (farm) between Chadwick and King's Norton ; and ' Hundesfelde ' can be identified as in King's Norton by the Hun- 2S5 XV Ralf de Todeni XVI Ralf de Mortemer XVII Robert de Stadford XVIII Roger de Laci XIX Osbern Fitz Richard XX Gilbert Fitz Turold XXI Drogo Fitz Ponz XXII Harold Fitz Ralf XXIII William Fitz Ansculf XXIV William Fitz Corbucion XXV William Goizenboded XXVI Urse de Abetoth XXVII Hugh Lasne XXVIII Eldeve Between (them) all, together with the manor (itself), there are 30 hides. Earl E(a)dwine held this manor T.R.E. In demesne there are now 2 ploughs, and (there are) 20 villeins and the reeve {prepositus) and the beadle with the priest and 92 bordars, having between (them) all 77 ploughs. dred Rolls (ii. 283). We also have a refer- ence in Habington's Survey (II. 220) to ' Haunckesfield's Graunge ' as ' the syte of the mannor of Hownesfeild ' in 36 Hen. VIII., and the Monasticon shows us Bordesley Abbey as holding land at ' Houndefeld ' when dissolved. Among the five ' chapels ' de- pendent on Bromsgrove were Moseley and Withall, which, therefore, we must recognise in 'Museleie' and 'Warthuil.' Habingdon (ii. 218) wrote of ' Moseley aunciently called Mounsley ' in King's Norton, but Moundsley Hall in King's Norton is quite distinct from Moseley. ' Suruehel ' appears to me to be Surehole (farm) close to Hall Green. Cobley (Hill) is two miles east of Burcot 'Tutnall and Cobley ' are now combined.