THE HOLDERS OF LANDS Ungs; now 30 shillings. He who held this land mowed [secabat) in the meadow for one day and performed {faciebat) the other services. The same Urse holds Pidelet [North Piddle].! JEfwme{JIwinus)hdd{it). There are 4 hides, of which i never paid geld. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) i villein, and 4 bordars, and 4 oxmen {hovarii), and I bondwoman. Between (them) all they have I plough. It was worth 50 shillings ; now 60 shillings. Walter Ponther holds Peritune [Pirton].^ Godric held (it). There are 6 hides, and in (the) demesne is i plough, and (there are) 3 villeins and 10 bordars with 3^ ploughs. There are 4 serfs and 8 acres of meadow. The wood(land) is i league (lewa) long and half a league in width. It was worth 4 pounds ; now 50 shillings. In PiPLiNTUNE [Peopleton] are 4^ hides in demesne, and there i ' radman ' holds 3 vir- gates, and i Frenchman {francigena) holds the land of I villein, and (there are) i villein and 4 bordars. Between (them) lall they have 4 ploughs, and there 2 cottars render 3 shillings. In the same ' Berewiche ' ^ Godric held 3 hides, and half a hide which never (paid) geld ; and iElfwig {J/iui) held i hide, and i vir- gate which never paid geld ; and another .ffilfwig [Alwi) held i hide ; and Wulfric {Vluric) held 3 virgates, I of which did not (pay) geld. These holders {ipsi) did their service [serviehant) like the other free men. Now Walter ponther holds the land of God- ric and of Mi-w'g [Alwi) and has there i plough, and (there are) 3 villeins and 6 bor- dars with 3 ploughs. There are 4 serfs and 10 acres of meadow. What Walter holds is worth 50 shillings.* Urse the sheriff holds the hide which the other jElfwig {Alwi) held. There is nothing there but 2 acres of meadow, and yet it renders 100 pence.*
- North Piddle lies just between Grafton
Flyford and Naunton Beauchamp.
- It should be observed that this place is
styled * Pyriton-Power ' in 12 Hen. IV. ^ It should be observed that Peopleton is treated as a mere Berewick (dependency) of Pershore, which seems, therefore, to be the status of the other places among which it occurs.
- This clause is inserted two lines lower.
- This is a striking instance of the unit of
assessment known as the 'hide' representing a Gilbert Fitz Turold holds Cumbrintune [Comberton]. E(a)dric, a free man, held (it). There are 9 hides, and in (the) demesne is I plough, and (there are) a priest and 7 villeins and 2 bordars with 4 ploughs. There are 2 serfs, and 2 bondwomen, and 30 acres of meadow. There a Frenchman [francigena) holds I hide, and has there I plough and 2 serfs and I bondwoman. The above [isdem) E(a)dric did the same service as the other free men. It was worth 6 pounds ; now 70 shillings. To this (there) belongs a Berewick {Bere- wicha) of 10 hides.^ Ulf and Ansgot held (it), and mowed (for) one day a year in the lord's meadow, and did their service {servie- hant) like the others. Now these 10 hides are held by the aforesaid Gilbert, who has there 3 ploughs in (the) demesne ; and (there are) 14 villeins and 6 bordars with 11 ploughs. There are 4 serfs and i bondwoman, and a mill which renders 30 (horse)loads of grain, and 30 acres of meadow. The wood(land) is 1 league {lewa) long and the same in width. The whole was worth 10 pounds ; now 100 shillings. The sheriff (Urse) holds Broctune [Broughton Hackett], and Aiulf (holds it) of him. Bricsmar held (it). There are 3 hides, and in (the) demesne are I5 ploughs, and (there are) 2 villeins and 2 cottars with i^ ploughs. There are 2 serfs and 6 acres of meadow. It was worth 40 shillings ; now 30 shillings. Bricsmar who held it did his service {servietat) like the others. In WiRECESTRE SciRE [Worcestershire] Robert Parler holds of Gilbert Fitz Turold a small piece {frustrum) of land called Nadford [Nafford]. This land neither pays geld nor owes service at the Hundred court {pergit ad hunldret]). There is a priest without a plough trifling amount of land. It is just possible, however, that Domesday only means 'There is nothing there ' which is a source of profit. ^ In this case, though Comberton must have been deemed, like Peopleton (which precedes it), a mere 'Berewick' of Pershore, it has a dependent ' Berewick ' of its own. Great and Little Comberton are, probably, represented by these two entries. The name is preserved in Nafford mill on the Avon south of Birlingham. Nash asserted of Nafford (which lay south of this mill) that the parish 'is not mentioned in Domesday' (II. 1 80). It is now one parish with Bir- lingham. 303
