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 A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE hides ; Langeduna Osmundi [in Longdon] i^ hides; Colleduma [Cowsdown]* 3 hides and 3 virgates ; Graftona Ebrandi [Grafton Flyford] i hide and 3 virgates ; * Flavel [Flyford Flavel] and Pidelet [North Piddle] 5 hides ; ^ Newentona [Naunton Beau- champ] 10 hides;* Brocton Inardi [Brough- ton Hacket] 3 hides ; ^ Pidelet Radulfi [Wyre Piddle] 3 hides ; « Berford [Besford] 5 hides;' Branefford [Bransford Chapel] 1 hide;* Wicha Inardi [Wick by Per- shore] 3 hides ; ^ Burlingeham [Birlingham] 2 hides and i virgate ; *" Cumbrintona [Comberton] 2 hides.^" Poiwica Willelmi de Bellocampo [Beauchampcourt in Powick] I hide ; Newebolt [ ] i hide ; Medele- ffeld [Madresfield] i hide of Powick; at Berga [Berrowr ?] i hide ; Olendene [ ] I hide ; Arleia [ ] i virgate ; Poiwica Inardi [in Powick] I hide. Total 60 hides and a half.'^ In the aforesaid Hundred of Pershore (of) the fief of the abbot of Pershore : — Belega [Beoley] 21 hides; Branefford [Bransford Chapel] I hide ; Wadberga [Wadborough] 3^ hides ; Cumbrientona [Comberton] i^ identify Urse's Domesday holding of 4 hides less 1 virgate in Snodsbury, which had no name. held at ' Garstune ' in 1086. ^ Held by Urse in 1086 as at 'Pidelet.' The relative entry in the short survey on fo. 6b of this MS. is 'Inter Flavel et Pidelet Robertus Parler habet v hidas et v carucas, et valet Ix solidos.' The figures, here, are those of Domesday, which, however, does not mention Robert, who may have been Urse's tenant (see below). « Held by (Urse) the sheriff in 1086. ^ Held in 1086 by Urse as 4 hides, of which one did not pay geld. ' Urse's holding there in 1086. held here of Pershore Abbey (see below). there. 10 Held by Urse in 1086. '' The Powick entries are difficult. Domes- day assesses all Powick at 3 hides only, and does not tell us what proportion was repre- sented by Urse's valuable estate there. The version of Domesday in Vesp. B. XXIV. fo. 6b enters Powick as 3 hides, but proceeds to reckon Urse's holding as 5 hides. hides ; Lega Ricardi [Leigh] half a hide ; Walecote [Walcote] and Torendune [Thorn- ton] i^ hides.'^ In the Hundred of Leisse '^ the same William holds (at) Chirchlench [Churchlench] 4 hides of the abbey of Evesham ; ** (at) Croulega [Crowle] 5 hides of the fief of Osbert Fitz Hugh.'» In the Hundred of Clent : — (At) Belna [Belne in Belbroughton] 8 hides of the fief of Fulk {Folwi) Paganel ; '« (at) Salwarpa [Salwarpe] 5 hides of the fief of earl Roger ; *' also (at) Salwarpa i hide of the fief of the bishop of Chester ; ^* (at) Chalves- tona [Chauson] i hide of the fee of Robert ^^ In Domesday the great manor of Beoley was held by Pershore Abbey in demesne, but by subsequent enfeoffment Beauchamp held there one of the Abbot's two knight's fees {Testa, p. 40, Liber Ruieus, p. 302). This, however, appears, from the records cited by Habington to have been only 5 hides. Bransford and Comberton had been held by Urse, in 1086, and Wadborough by Robert the Despencer. At Leigh Domesday assigns a hide and a half to Urse, but its figures are not consistent with themselves. The hide and a half at Walcote and Thornton appears to represent the one hide that Domesday assigns to Urse at Broughton (which lay between them). The hide which Urse held at Wadborough and the 2 hides he claimed at Broadwas are not here entered as held by William de Beauchamp. ^^ The ' Esch ' of Domesday. ^* This estate appears in Domesday as held by the Abbey in demesne. The monks accounted for its loss by the statement that Abbot Walter had granted it to Urse ' pro servitio,' for his life only (Harl. MS. 3,763, fo. 168). It is here found held by his grand- son William de Beauchamp. '^ As Urse had held it of his grandfather, Osbern Fitz Richard, in 1086. It was afterwards held, as one knight's fee, by Hacket under Poher, and by Poher under Beauchamp. '* Belne, in 1086, was held by William Fitz Ansculf, Fulk's predecessor, as 3 hides. It is not easy to see why it here becomes 8, or why William de Beauchamp held it as under-tenant, unless the Robert who so held it in 1086 was Robert the Despencer. 1086. 18 Which Urse had held, as of the church of Coventry, in 1086. 328
 * In Snodsbury. This enables us to
 * The 2 hides less i virgate which Urse
 * The Domesday holding of Urse there.
 * Domesday only mentions the hide he
 * Domesday only assigns him i hide
 * ' Which Urse had held of earl Roger in