[142]_Testa de Nevill_, p. 237 b. 130. See, also, p. 235 b. (118). Throughout the Forest, as we have seen at Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst, were similar feudal tenures. Some held their lands, as the heirs of Cobbe, at Eling, by finding 50; and others, again, as Richard de Baudet, at Redbridge, 100 arrows. _Testa de Nevill_, as in the first reference; and p. 238 a. (132). [143]See previous chapter, p. 96, foot-note. [144]For some account of the contents of these barrows and potteries, see chapters xvii. and xviii. [145]Lewis: _Topographical Remarks on the New Forest_, p. 80, foot-note. I have not, however, been able to find his authority. A tradition of the sort lingers in the neighbourhood. Blount (_Fragmenta Antiquitatis_, Ed. Beckwith, p. 115. 1815) says that Richard Carevile held here six librates a year of land in chief of Edward I., by finding a sergeant-at-arms for forty days every year in the King’s army. See, also, the _Testa de Nevill_, p. 231 (101), No. 3. [146]Dugdale: _Monasticon Anglicanum_, Ed. 1830, vol. vi., part ii., p. 761. Leland, however (_Itin._, vol. iii., f. 72, p. 88, Ed. Hearne), says it was given to King’s College, Cambridge. [147]_The Chronicle_. Ed. Thorpe, vol. i. p. 26. _Florence of Worcester_, Ed. Thorpe, vol. i. p. 4. [148]Same edition as before, p. iv. a. Its manor then belonged to that of Rockbourne, and was held in demesne by the Conqueror, as it had also been by Edward the Confessor. Two hydes and a half, and a wood capable of supporting fifty swine, were taken into the Forest. From the mention of a priest (_presbyter_), who received twenty shillings from some land in the Isle of Wight, there may have been, though by no means necessarily, a church, situated, as the old yew would perhaps show, in the present churchyard, and of which the Norman doorway may be the last remains. The Valley of the Avon, as was mentioned in chapter v., p. 51, foot-note, appears from its nature to have been, with the exception of the east coast, the most flourishing district of any in the neighbourhood of the Forest. It is worth, however, noticing that many of its mills were rented not only by a money value, but by the additional payment of so many eels. Thus at Charford (Cerdeford) the mill is rented at 15_s._ and 1,250 eels, and at Burgate (Borgate) the mill paid 10_s._ and 1,000 eels, whilst at Ibbesley (Tibeslei) the rental was only 10_s._ and 700 eels (_Domesday_, as before, pp. xix. a, iv. b, xviii. a). The latter place had two hydes, and Burgate its woods and pasture, which maintained forty hogs, taken into the Forest; but Charford with its ninety-one acres of meadow-land, seems not to have been afforested, which, taken with other instances, shows that the best land was, as a rule, spared.