[8] MS. now destroyed here.
[9] 'Non geldat.'
[10] p. 116.
[11] Infra, pp. 149 et seq.
[12] We are enabled by this Survey, and by the division it records, to carry up the history of Elmley, the original seat of the Beauchamps, to Domesday itself. The great Manor of Cropthorne, by Evesham, was held by the Church of Worcester. In Bengeworth, one of its 'members', Urse d'Abetot, had seized an estate of five hides (Heming's Cartulary fo. 125b). His brother, Robert Despencer, had seized two other 'members', Charlton ('Ceorlatuna') and Elmley (Ibid.). In Domesday we are merely told that Robert held eleven hides in Cropthorne. But the present Survey fortunately mentions that the portion which fell to Marmion's share was seven hides in 'Charlton'. This leaves four hides for Elmley, which, added to the five hides of Urse d'Abetot in Bengeworth, makes exactly the nine hides here entered to Walter de Beauchamp. We thus learn how the Beauchamps became possessed of Elmley. And this calculation is confirmed by the entry in the Testa (p. 41): 'Willelmus de Bello Campo ... in Elmeleg in dominico iiij. hidas.'
[13] It is worth noting that we find, in Domesday, both a Robert and a Walter holding of Urse in Worcestershire.
[15] Harl. MS., 3,763, fo. 80.
[15a] Harl. MS., 3,763, fo. 80.
[16] Cott. MS. Vesp., B. xxiv. fo. 8.