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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS wine ('Ulwinus') held (it and) rendered all the customary payment to the reeve (in charge) of the ' ferm.' The wood(land) is half a league {lewa) long and half (a league) in width. It was worth 20 shillings T.R.E. ; now 15 shillings. The same Urse holds i hide at Cloptune [ ]. In (the) demesne is i plough and (there are) 1 bordar and 6 acres of meadow. Brictmar held (it and) rendered all that the abovesaid (tenants) did.* It was worth 20 shillings T.R.E. ; now 15 shillings. The same Urse holds 3 virgates at Laure [Lawern]. He has there in demesne i plough and 2 bordars. Sawine held it (as) of the Bishop's demesne. There are 6 acres of meadow. It was and is worth 7 shillings. There also Urse (holds) i virgate of the Bishop's demesne; (it is) worth 6 shillings. The same Urse holds i hide at Gremanhil [Grimley], and Godfrey (holds it) of him. There 2 bordars have i plough. Eddid held (it and) rendered what the abovesaid tenants rendered. It was and is worth 6 shillings. Of the same manor Robert the Despencer {dispensator) holds half a hide at Laure [Lawern], where he has i plough with i bordar and a mill worth [de) 5 shillings and 6 acres of meadow and 12 oaks. Keneward held (it) and performed such service as (de- serviebat sicut) the Bishop willed.^ It was and is worth 20 shillings. Of the same manor Osbern Fitz Richard holds I hide at Codrie [Cotheridge], where he has i plough in (the) demesne ; and (there Urse is found succeeding at Broughton (fo. 175), for he is said to have obtained all the land of iElfwine son of Brihtmar (Heming, L 261). introduction, was known as Keneward 'of Lawern,' where probably he resided. The monks claimed that Lawern, which had been held by his parents before him of their house, reverted to them at his death, but was wrongfully seized by the above ' Robert, brother of Urse the sheriff' (Heming's Cartulary, p. 253). Whether this wealthy ' Kinwardus,' as they styled him, was the Worcestershire sheriff of that name before the Conquest is, as explained in the Introduction, perhaps doubtful. He was, however, clearly the Keneward who had held of the church of Worcester at Wyre Piddle and at Elmley Castle (which latter similarly passed to Robert the Despencer), for the monks expressly state that he had held other lands of them. are) 6 villeins and 4 bordars with 4 ploughs, and a mill worth {de) 5 shillings. There are 1 2 acres of meadow and 3 * quarentines ' of wood(Iand). Richard * held it by such service {ad servitium) as the Bishop willed. In the same Hundred the same Bishop holds Fledebirie [Fladbury]. There are 40 hides that (pay) geld. In demesne are 7 hides, where are 9 ploughs, and (there are) a priest, who has half a hide, and 23 villeins and 17 bordars with 19 ploughs. There are 16 serfs and 3 bondwomen, and a mill worth {de) 10 shillings and 20 ' stichs ' of eels,* and 50 acres of meadow. The wood(land) is 2 leagues {lewte) long and half (a league) in width, and the Bishop has all its proceeds in fo. 173. hunting and honey and timber {lignis) for the saltpans of (Droit)wich, and 4 shillings (also). It was worth ^^lo ; now £<). Of this manor the bishop of Hereford holds 5 hides at Inteberge [Inkberrow],* where he has a priest and 7 villeins, with 4 ploughs, and meadow for the oxen. Bishop Walter ^ held it T.R.E., performing {ad) all the service due to the bishop {episcopi) of Wircestre. It was and is worth 30 shillings. Of the said manor Urse holds 5 hides at Abeleng [Hob Lench] ' where he has 2 (' Coddarycge ') the monks alleged that they had lost it through Arnwig a former and wealthy reeve, who had given it to his dearly loved brother ' Spiritus,' who had been high in favour with Cnut's sons and successors, Harold and Harthacnut. On ' Spiritus ' being subsequently expelled from England and exiled, the land was seized by Richard ' Scrob,' and the monastery thus lost it (Heming's Cartulary, p. 254). Domesday, it will be seen, only mentions that Richard (Scrob) had held the land T.R.E., but it contains in another place (fo. 252*) a curious reference to the exile of ' Spirtes ' (' quum fuisset exsulatus ab Anglia') in Edward's days. Heming's story, therefore, relates to that Spirtes (or Spirites) the priest, the bulk of whose possessions, under William, passed to Nigel the physician (on whom, see p. 308 below). eels in a * stich,' according to a Canterbury MS. below). The above 5 hides were probably Little Inkberrow. « Of Hereford. ' Formerly Habbe Lench. 289
 * This was probably the ' Bricsmar ' whom
 * This Keneward, as is shown in the
 * i.e. Osbern's father. Of Cotheridge
 * i.e. from the mill pool. There were 25
 * He also held land there in capite (see