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 SOME EARLY SURVEYS ('Berton') of Gloucester Ralf Fitz Ringulf holds half a hide.* Of the monks of Glou- cester Baldwin and Lithulf (hold) half a hide.^ Of the earl of Warwick Randulf and Essulf sons of Ringulf hold 3 virgates. Of Walter del Burc» Randulf and Essulf (hold) half a hide. Of Westminster Theobald and Walter Fitz {fir) Thorald (hold) i hide.* Of Alm- lega [Elmley Lovett], the son of Aiulf and his mother i hide.* Of Battona ^ Aiulf the priest (holds) one virgate. Of Wichebold [Wichbold] Roger de Bolles (holds) i virgate.' Of the monks the son of Grim holds i vir- gate. Of Kinefare [Kinver] and Doverdale I virgate. Alewi Caure and his fellows {socit) half a virgate. This Survey is roughly dated by the name of Walter de Beauchamp, and probably belongs to the closing years of the reign of Henry I., when his trusted officer Payn Fitz John was much to the front. It will be observed that the portion of Witton (in Droitwich) held by Peter ' Corbezun ' ^ is distinguished by his own name, according to the practice described above (p. 330). The most interesting name in the Survey is that of John de Sudeley (' Suthlega '),* for he was that son of Harold, the Domesday tenant at Droitwich, from whom descended, in the male line, the Sudeleys and the Tracys of Toddington. It is just possible that his Droitwich tenant was that Richard who was a younger son of his brother Robert of Ewyas. Although the tenant of St. Guthlac's hide is here given as William Fitz Richard, it is entered in the later Survey (p. 329 above) as held by his son Robert Fitz William of William de Beauchamp. This is probably connected with Urse's position as holding of Nigel the leech, St. Guthlac's under-tenant, at Dunclent ; for it was Nigel who had held this hide of St. Guthlac. The few small holdings at the end of the Survey are obscure and difficult to explain. Among the under-tenants, it should be observed, the names of Englishmen still occur. Domesday to the King's hall at Gloucester. Gloucester. ^ This was the name of the Domesday under-tenant of Estbury in Hallow. Abbey by ' two priests ' in 1086. try on Elmley Lovett in Domesday. It was then held in capite by Ralf de 'Todeni.' ^ This name is badly written, and I cannot identify it. ' Domesday records several * burgesses ' at Droitwich as appurtenant to Wichbold. Priory (see p. 269, note 4 above). ® It must be he who is entered on the Pipe Roll of 1 130 (p. 79) as owing 10 marcs for ' his wife's pleas.' 331
 * This was the half hide assigned in
 * As held in 1086 by St. Peter's Abbey,
 * This hide had been held of Westminster
 * This hide immediately follows the en-
 * Alias Peter de Stodley, founder of Studley