Note 259 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)
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An excellent instance is afforded in the case of Abingdon Abbey (fol. 258b-9b), because the formulae are quite normal and make 'no record of any new duties or services of any kind'.259 Yet we are able to identify the tenants named in Domesday, right and left, with the foreign knights enfeoffed by Athelelm to hold by military tenure,260 owing service for their fees 'to Lord as Lord'. There are some specially convincing cases, such as those of Hubert, who held five hides in a hamlet of Cumnor,261 and whose fee is not only entered in the list of knights:262 but is recorded to have been given before Domesday for military service.263 Another case is that of William camerarius, who held Lea by the service of one knight;264 so too with the Bishop of Worcester's Manor of Westbury-on-Trym, where the homines of Domesday appear as milites in a rather earlier survey.265