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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS hides, and they used to mow {secabant) in the meadows of their lord for one day, and to do such service as was commanded {eis precipie- batur). (They were) Elric, Reinbald, Elward', Brictric, Alfric, Godric cloch, and (another) Godric, Alwi, and AIwi blac. What they held was worth in all 1 1 pounds and 1 1 shillings. Of this land king William holds 5 hides and 3 virgates. Reinbald * and Alfric were the holders. In (the) demesne are 3 ploughs, and (there are) 12 villeins and 12 bordars with 14 ploughs. There are 7 serfs, and 3 bondwomen, and a mill worth {de) 2 shillings. Of the same land Drogo Fitz Ponz {filius Ponzii) holds I hide, Godric held (it). There is I plough, and (there are) 2 oxmen {bovarii) and 6 acres of meadow. It is worth 15 shillings. Of the same land Urse holds 5 hides. The holders were four of the above (men), Elwar (j/V), Brictric, Alwi, and Godric. There, in (the) demesne, are 5 ploughs, and (there are) 3 villeins and 9 bordars with 3 ploughs. There (are) 8 serfs, and 3 bondwomen, and 28 acres of meadow. The wood(land) is 3 fur- longs long and 2 furlongs in width. It is worth 70 shillings. Of this same land William Fitz Baderon * holds 2^ hides. Alwi held (them). He has there 2 ploughs, and (there are) 4 vil- leins and 5 bordars with 3 ploughs. It was worth 40 shillings. There are 12 acres of meadow. Of the same land Roger de Laci holds 5 hides. Alric {sic) held (them). He has nothing in demesne. The wood(land) is i league {lewa) long and half (a league) in width. Of him a ' radman,' Le(o)fric, holds one hide and one virgate, where he has one plough, and (there are) 3 villeins and 8 bor- dars with 4 ploughs. There are i serf, and 3 bondwomen, and a mill worth 8 shillings, and 12 acres of meadow. It is worth 20 shillings.' Eldersfield, close by, had been held, T.R.E. (Domesday, fo. i8oi), by 'Reinbald canceler' (the latter word is interlined), the chancellor of Edward the Confessor (on whom, see Feudal England, pp. 421-426). The name appears to be unique T.R.E. house, which took its name thence. ' It should be observed that the holdings of the above Norman tenants amount to 19^ hides (at 4 virgates to the hide). This ex- In Poiwic [Powick] are 3 hides. There, in (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 16 villeins and 5 bordars with 10 ploughs. There are 4 serfs, and i bondwoman, and 3 boors (coliberts),* who render 3 sestiers {sex- tarios) of honey and 45 pence, and one mill for the use of {serviens) the hall. There are 20 acres of meadow, and from a certain rent {quadam reddita) 30 shillings (are received). It is worth 20 pounds. There are a priest who has i plough, and 2 oxmen {hovar'), and 5 bordars with 2 ploughs. There were 8 ' radmans,' .^thel- ward {Agelward), Edward, Brictmer, Saulf, iElfwine (Jlwinus), Godric, iElfwig {Alwi), Ketelbert, who had between them 10 ploughs, and many (plures) bordars and serfs with 7 ploughs. What they held was worth 100 shillings. The said {ipsi) 'radmans' mowed {secabant) for one day a year in the meadows of their lord, and did all the service that they were bidden {quod eis jubebatur). Urse holds the lands which were held by iElfward {Mlwari) and Saulf and Brictmer and j5^1fwine, and has there 7 ploughs and 22 bordars and 14 serfs. The whole is worth 9 pounds and 5 shillings. Gilbert Fitz Turold holds what was held by jElfwig and Ketelbern, and there, in (the) demesne, are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 7 bor- dars and 3 serfs, with i plough, and a mill worth {de) 16 pence. It is worth 43 shil- lings. Walter Ponther holds what Godric held, and there he has half a plough, and (there are) i villein and 6 bordars and 2 serfs with 2 ploughs. It is worth 25 shillings. A certain Frenchman {francigena Artur, holds what Edward held, and has there i plough and 2 oxen.* ceeds the 18 hides assigned to their English predecessors, the excess, which is hides, being possibly the holding of Leofric the ' radman ' (who was not one of them) which is entered at that amount. But, even so, the 1 1 hides in the monks' demesne would not, with either total, make up exactly 30 hides. ' buri ' as a gloss. A similar gloss is found on a Hampshire manor (fo. 38^), where ' vel bures ' is interlined above ' coliberti ' (see also Maitland's Domesday Book and Beyond, p. 36). team consisting of 8 oxen. 301
 * It can scarcely be a coincidence that
 * Of Monmouth, founder of the baronial
 * The word ' coliberti ' is interlined above
 * i^ plough teams, the Domesday plough