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 SOME EARLY SURVEYS hands one-third of Oswaldslow (loo hides), his interest in which alone would have made him of importance in the county ; but we shall see below how largely he was holding elsewhere also. Walter, as I have observed above, had not succeeded his wife's uncle Robert the Despencer at Charlton, which the Survey assigns to Robert Marmion. Thus, of the 17I hides which Robert had held, in Domesday, of the Bishop, seven had passed to Marmion, and ten and a half to Beauchamp. I have elsewhere shown that in Leicestershire, as in Worcestershire, the Despencer lands were divided between Beauchamp and Marmion,' while Scrivelsby and other lands of Robert the Despencer in Lincolnshire fell to the share of Marmion, from whom they passed by female descent to the well-known hereditary champions.* A remarkable charter of William Rufus proves that Urse de Abetot had succeeded his brother Robert in at least one Lincolnshire manor,' which suggests that Robert himself had died without issue and that the Marmions derived their claim, whatever it was, through Urse.* Further points to be noted in this early survey are that the Walter ' Ponther ' of Domesday, the Walter ' Punher ' of the Worcester Relief (1095),^ had been succeeded, as a tenant of the see, by Hugh ' Puher,' and that Roger de Laci had also been succeeded, as in the 1095 list,* by Hugh de Laci, except in two cases, in one of which he himself is still named as the tenant, although he had been forfeited and banished in 1088, after being one of the rebel leaders defeated at the battle of Worcester. Hugh de Laci, who remained loyal and who received his lands, was his brother. We will now pass to the interesting fragment of a Survey rather later in date, which is found in an Evesham cartulary.® This fragment begins abruptly at the top of a page, and has no connection with the page preceding it, the text of which it appears to continue.' It is, moreover, written in a different hand. Stranger still, it is unconnected with the dorse of its own folio. From internal evidence alone can its date and character be determined. . . . [in the ?] manor of Hambyry In the Hundred of Pershore the church [Hanbury], ' Eston Ric[ardi] ' half a hide. In of Westminster [Westminster Abbey] has the Hundred of Camele : in Waresleia these lands, which William de Beauchamp [Waresley] 5 hides of the manor of Hertle- holds : — Hekintona [Eckington] 3 hides and bery [Hartlebury].* Total 93 hides. 3 virgates ; ^ Chaddesleia [Chaseley] ^° 2 ^ Feudal England, p. 214. seems to have possessed some additional in- 3 See my Ancient Charters (Pipe Roll * These were the two estates held by Society), p. i. Walter de Beauchamp of the see, outside ^ Ibid. pp. 309, 312. ' Held by Urse in io86 as 4 hides less i « Cott. MS. Vesp. B. XXIV. fo. 8. virgate. '' The pages preceding it contain a curious " In Longdon. Chaddesley Corbett must abstract of Domesday, arranged in Hundreds, have been so named to distinguish it from which deserves attention, as its compiler this Chaseley, formerly Chadesley.
 * Ibid. pp. 193-195. formation.
 * See Feudal England, p. 176. Oswaldslaw (see above).