THE HOLDERS OF LANDS Of this manor Roger de Laci holds a part and Odo (holds it) of him. Earl William gave it to him. On the demesne arc 2 ploughs, and (there are) 9 bordars with 2 ploughs and 2 serfs and 2 oxmen. (There is) there i Frenchman with 2 bordars having 2 ploughs. It is worth 3//. Ralph de Saucey {Salceit) holds a part of the same manor and has land for 2 ploughs. One plough is there with 2 oxmen ; and one Welshman who has half a plough and renders I sestter of honey. It is worth 20s. Ralph de Todeni holds Westeude [? Dew- sail] ** and William and Ilbert (hold it) of him. Ulsac held (it). (There is) I hide there, and on the demesne (are) 2 ploughs and a serf, and 4 bordars with 2 ploughs. It is worth 30^. The church of this manor and the priest and land for i plough St. Mary of Lyre holds. The King has in Herefordscire 9 manors which are waste. (They arc assessed) as 19 hides. For the forests, which he holds, William son of Norman pays 15//. to the King. In Hezetre Hundred The King holds Berchelincope [Burling- jobb].« Sol [ ] held (it) T.R.E. (There are) 3 hides there. They were and are waste. The land is (for) 4 ploughs. The King holds Raddrenoue [Old Radnor]. Earl Harold held it. (There are) there 1 5 hides. They are and were waste. There is land (for) 30 ploughs. Hugh Asne says that Earl William gave this land to him, when he gave him the land of Turchil his predecessor {antecessor). In Elsedune Hundred The King holds Witenie [Whitney]. M- ward held (it) T.R.E., and could betake himself wherever he wished. Half a hide pays geld there. It was and is waste. Earl Harold held Mateurdin [ ]. The manor pays geld as 2 hides. Part of this land the King has, and it is and was waste. The same Harold held Herdeslege [Eardis- ley]. (There are) 2^ hides there. (They are) waste. The same Harold held Cicuurdine [Chick- ward near Almeley]. (There are) there i hide and 3 virgates of waste land. In Ultelmestune [ ? Welson near Eardisley] 2 hides. In Stiuinge- " The church of Dewsall subsequently belonged to Lyre ; Feud. Aids, ii, 406. " Co. Radnor. urdin [? Strangward] ^ i hide. In Hantine- TUNE [? Huntington] 3 hides. In Burarde- STUNE [Burton] ^^ I hide. In Hergesth [Her- gest] I hide. In Brudeford [?Breadward, in Kington] 2 hides. In Chingtune [Kington] 2 hides. In Ruiscope [Riscob] 4 hides. These lands Earl Harold held. Now the King has (them). They are waste. In Hergest [Hergest] 3 hides. In Beure- TUNE [Burton] 2 hides. In Ruiscope [Riscob] I hide. These three manors King Edward held and they paid geld. Now the King has (them) and they are waste. In Elsedune Hundred In Wennetune [Woonton] are i hides paying geld. Elgar and Alwin held (it) as 2 manors and could betake themselves where they would. Ralph de Bernai, when he was sheriff, added these two estates {terras) to the ferm of Leof- minstre [Leominster] [misit has 2 terras iniuste ad firmam de Leofmlnstre). There are there l|- ploughs ; naught else. T.R.E. it was waste. Now it pays Szd. to the King's ferm. In Plegeliet Hundred In Ruedene [Rowden, in Edvin Ralph] is I hide paying geld. Grim held it as a manor and could betake himself whither he would. There Grimchetel has I plough and i bordar and I oxman. It was worth 12s. Now (it pays) 10/. to the ferm. In Bremesese Hundred In Niware [? Huntsham] "^ are 2 hides, which used to come and do service, but Roger de Pistes in the time of Earl William made them part of Gloucestershire. In Brocote [ ] are 2^ hides. Alvric and Elward and Bercsi held (them) as 2 manors. They were waste and up to the present {adhuc) are in the King's wood. There Brictric held one manor as i hide, and Earl Godwin held (it, namely) Stantun [Stan- ton, CO. Glouc], one manor, as i hide. They were waste, and up to the present are in the King's wood. " Marked on Saxton's and Speed's maps near Knill ; now Strongwood. " ' Bourton cum membris in va'le de Radenore ' • Feud. Aids, ii, 377. "' So identified by Mr. J. G. Wood, who deems the^ land to be part of Huntsham adjoining New Weir, which, he observes, was long debatable land between the two counties. 319
