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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS and could betake themselves {ire) with (their) land where they would, and (they) had under them 4 knights {milites) as free as they them- selves were.' There are lO hides, and in (the) demesne (are) 6 ploughs, and (there are) 30 villeins and 1 1 bordars, and a reeve {prepositus) and a beadle {bedel) and a miller and a smith ; between (them) all they have 18 ploughs. There are 12 serfs, and 5 bondwomen, and I ' radman ' who holds half a hide and two-thirds of half a hide,^ and a croft, and has I plough. There is a mill worth {de) 2 shillings. In (Droit)Wich 4 saltpans are appurtenant. The wood(land) of this manor is put out of it {forts est missa), for the King's forest {silvam), and so is i hide of land which earl William ^ gave to Gozelin the huntsman. The tithe(s) of this manor and the church, with the priest, and two virgates of land with I villein were given by earl William to the Abbey {cscclesiis) of St. Mary.* Walter de Laci gave to a certain Hubert I hide of the demesne land.* This Hubert has half a plough. The King holds Haloede [Holloway].^ Siward, a thegn and kinsman of king Edward, held it. There are 3 hides, and in (the) demesne are 3 ploughs, and there are 4 vil- leins and I bordar and a reeve {prepositus) and a beadle {bedel) with 3 ploughs, and of {inter) serfs and bondwomen 6. There is a park for wild animals {ferarum), but it has been put {missum) outside the manor with all the ' This is a most exceptional and remarkable entry, ^ i.e. five-sixths of a hide in all. ^ William Fitz Osbern earl of Hereford. that ' The rectory formerly belonged to the abbey of Lyra in France, and had a large demesne named Astwood attached to it ' (L 442). ^ The importance of this passage consists in its demonstration that Walter de Laci (who had died shortly before the survey), the father of Roger de Laci the Domesday tenant-in-chief, must have held this manor at some time. ^ In Feckenham. It was granted to Bordesley Abbey half a century later. It is the ' Holewei ' of the entry above (fo. 178), and the 'Holeweya' of Testa de Nevill (p. 43) where its grant by the Crown to Bordesley Abbey is referred to. The Abbot and con- vent speak of it as their manor of Holewey Grange in the county of Worcester, 10 Dec, 1467 (Madox' Formulare, p. 286). 3- wood(land). In (Droit)Wich (are appur- tenant) 4 saltpans and i ' hoch.' In Wire- cestre [Worcester] i house rend[ers] 2 ploughshares, and 2 other houses, belonging to Feckenham rendered nothing and have been put {missie) outside. These 2 manors render at Hereford 18 pounds of pennies at {de) 20 to the ounce. In Glowecestre '' Scire. The King holds Hanlie [Hanley Castle]. Brictric ^ held (it). There are 4 hides. In (the) demesne are two ploughs, and there are 20 villeins and 17 bordars and a reeve ; between (them) all they have 17^ ploughs. Of {inter) serfs and bondwomen there are 9 there, and 6 swineherds {porcarii) render 60 swine and have 4 ploughs. There is a mill worth {de) 2 shillings. The wood- (land is) 5 leagues reckoning {inter) length and width. It has been put out of {missa forts) the manor.® There is a hawk's eyrie {aired). A forester holds half a virgate of land, and one villein at {de) Baldehalle renders to this manor 2 ounces of (silver) pennies (a year). The King holds Forhelmentone [Forth- ampton]. Brictric held it.'" ., . In Wirecestre Scire The King holds Biselie [Bushley]. Bric- tric held (it), and he bought it from Lyfing {Livingo) bishop of Worcester {Wirecestre) for 3 marcs of gold ** together with {simul et) a ' Sic. But this heading must apply only to the second of the two manors which follow, namely Forthampton, which is in Gloucester- shire, though surrounded on three sides by Worcestershire. which follow is the great Brihtric son of iElfgar, the centre of whose power was at Tewkesbury (see Introduction). ® This large tract of woodland was part of Malvern Chase running back from Hanley to the Herefordshire border. Another part was appurtenant to the bishop of Worcester's manor of Upton and Ripple which adjoined Hanley on the south. '° Another survey of Hanley Castle and Forthampton will be found below extracted from the Gloucestershire Domesday, where they are entered in the same order as members of Brihtric's great lordship of Tewkesbury. of the transaction in the survey of what seems to be this same estate on p. 292 above, under the lands of the church of Worcester.
 * i.e. of La Vieille Lyre, for Nash observes
 * The Brictric of this entry and of the two
 * ' jTiS. Compare the very different story