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 A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE This same Church holds Hambyrie [Han- bury]. There are 14 hides that (pay) geld. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 16 villeins and 18 bordars and a priest and a reeve. Between (them) all they have 24 ploughs. There are 4 serfs, and i bond- tvoman, and 20 acres of meadow. The wood(land) is I league {/ewa) in length and half (a) league in width, but it is in the King's forest. (There are received) from the salt- pans in (Droit)wich 105 'mits' {mittas) of salt. It was worth 7 pounds ; now 6 pounds. Of this land 2 hides are waste. Urse holds 2 hides of this land, and Ralf (holds them) of him. He has there i plough. It was and is worth 5 shillings. In none of these manors can there be (em- ployed) more ploughs than is stated.^ The county court {vicecornitatus) says that from every hide of land, (whether held by) free or villein (tenure), belonging to the church of Worcester the Bishop ought to have on the feast-day of St. Martin one (horse)load of grain, of the best {meliori) that is grown there. But if that day should pass without the grain being rendered, (he) who has kept it back shall render the grain, and shall pay eleven- fold {undecies persolvet) ; and the Bishop more- over shall receive such penalty [forhfacturam) as he ought to have from his land. In Came Hund[ret] This same Church holds Stoche [Stoke Prior] with two Berewicks, Estone [Aston] - and Bedindone [ ]. There are 10 hides. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 13 villeins and 7 bordars and a priest ; between (them) all they have 14 ploughs. There are 4 serfs, and I bondwoman, and 2 mills which render 7 ounces (of silver). The wood(land) is one league [lewa) and a half long. This wood- (land) is in (the King's) forest. It was worth 40 shillings ; now 100 shillings. In Cresselau Hund[ret] This same Church holds Huerteberie this story, will be found below, as ' Croelai ' on the fief of Osbern Fitz Richard (p. 314). The above ' Simund ' was probably the ' Simund danus ' who had held Wolverton (Warw.)T.R.E.,and the 'Simon' who had pre- ceded Osbern Fitz Richard at Shelsley (p. 3 1 3). ^ That is, apparently, than the number given as existing. ' Aston Fields, south of Bromsgrove. [Hartlebury] with 6 Berewicks. There are 20 hides, and in (the) demesne are 4 ploughs, and (there are) 24 villeins and 3 bordars and a priest; between (them) all they have 21 ploughs. There are 12 serfs, and 3 bond- women, and 2 mills worth {de) 4 shillings and 10 (horse)loads of grain. The wood- land) is I league [lewa) long and half (a league) in width ; and in (Droit)wich there are 5 houses which render 5 mits {mittas) of salt. It was worth 16 pounds T.R.E. ; now 13 pounds and 10 shillings. This same Church holds Ulwardelei [Wolverley]. There are 5 hides. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 4 villeins and 5 bordars with 4 ploughs. There are a priest, who has half a plough, and one free man, who has i hide and renders 2 sestiers [sextaria) of honey. There are 6 serfs, male and female [inter servos et ancillas), and a mill worth [de) 6 shillings. It was worth 4 pounds T.R.E. ; now 30 shillings. In Came Hund[ret] This same Church holds Alvievecherche [Alvechurch] with 4 Berewicks, Costone [Coston Hacket], Warstelle, Tonge,^ OvRETONE. In these, with the manor, are 13 hides. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) a priest, and a reeve, and a ' Radchen- [istre],' and 12 villeins and 7 bordars; be- tween (them) all they have 14 ploughs. There are 7 serfs, male and female [inter servos et ancillas), and 4 square leagues [lewedes), of (wood)land, of which the King has taken half into his wood. In (Droit)wich there are 8 saltpans; one of these renders 50 'mits' [mittas) of salt ; the other 7 render 70 'mits' of salt. It was worth 100 shillings T.R.E., and now it is worth the same. In Dodintret Hund[ret] St. Mary * holds Ardolvestone [Eardis- ton in Lindridge] and Cnistetone [Knighton (on Teme)], (which are) assigned to the sup- port [de victu) of the monks. The two manors are of 15 hides.* In (the) demesne are 8 ploughs, and (there are) a priest and 15 villeins and 10 bordars with 15 ploughs, ' The name was preserved, according to Habington, in some fields between Alve- church and Lea end. q[uire].' 298
 * The monastery.
 * There is here a marginal note: ' r[e]-