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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS The King holds Suchelie [Suckley]. Earl Eadwine {Edwinus) held (it). There are 5 hides. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 22 villeins and 24 bordars with 27 ploughs. There are 10 other bordars (who are) poor, and a mill worth {de) 6 shillings, and a keeper of the bees, with 12 hives {vasculorum). The wood(land) has 5 leagues, reckoning {inter) length and width, and (there is) a fishery there. In Wirecestre [Worcester] there is appurtenant i burgess, but (he) renders nothing. There is a mill worth {de) 6 shillings. St. Mary holds the tithe(s) of this vill {villa) with I villein and half a virgate of land. ^ Earl Roger ^ gave to a cer- tain Richard half a virgate of land in entire freedom {soUda libertate). These 6 manors^ render at Hereford 50 pounds of rent {de firma) and 25 shillings for consideration {ge lersumma) [GLOWECESTRESCIRE] fo. 163b. In the same manor of Teodekesberie [Tewkesbury] used to belong 4 hides with- out (the) demesne^ which are in Hanlege for Henry II. 's charter confirms to it the tithes and one {sic) virgate of land here. Fitz Osbern. ^ i.e. Hanley Castle, Forthampton, Bush- ley, Queenhill, Eldersfield, and Suckley. sented sixpence on the pound of the rent, exactly the same proportion as at Martley (p. 320 above). implies a contradiction. But I am inclined to explain it as meaning that the demesne ' hides ' were not liable to ' geld.' For the [Hanley (Castle)]. There, T.R.E., were in (the) demesne 2 ploughs, and of {inter) vil- leins and bordars (there were) 40, and of {inter) serfs and bondwomen 8, and a mill worth {de) 16 pence. (There is) wood(land) in which is a ' Hay.' ^ This land belonged to {fitit) earl William ;' it now is (annexed) to the King's ' ferm ' {firmam) of Hereford.* It was worth 15 pounds T.R.E. ; now 10 pounds. In FoRTELMENTONE [Forthampton] 9 hides belonged to this manor (of Tewkesbury). . . . These 2 estates {terras) were held by earl William and paid their geld in {propter) Tedekesberie [Tewkesbury].^ Forthampton entry, in the Herefordshire version, states that there were ' there 9 hides which were used to (pay) geld for 4 hides' (only). Indeed, Domesday specially mentions (fo. 163^) that, of the 95 hides in the Tew- kesbury group of manors, 45 were exempt from ' geld.' ^ See above, p. 288, note 8. ' William Fitz Osbern earl of Hereford, His ownership of Hanley (Castle) is not men- tioned in the survey of it given above (p. 321), but is confirmed hy the fact mentioned by Nash [I. 562] that ' the parsonage was an- ciently united to the abbey of Lyra in France, who made it over in fee farm to the prior and convent of Little Malvern.' Hereford was the head and which paid the Crown a joint 'ferm.' ^ This is the reason of their being entered together under Tewkesbury in the Glouces- tershire Survey, just as the Worcestershire manors, including Hanley, entered under Herefordshire, appear there because their rent had been annexed, by earl William, to that of Hereford, 323
 * This must be the Abbey of Cormeilles
 * Roger earl of Hereford, son of William
 * It should be observed that this repre-
 * This phrase {sine dominio), at first sight,
 * i.e. to the group of manors of which