. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . mesday SurveyMANOR there were two estates in SILCHESTER—one of 5 hides which Alestan had heldof Edward the Confessor, and which was then in thepossession of Ralph Bluet, who held of William deOw,5 and the other assessed at 3 hides and formingpart of the possessions of Ralph de Mortimer, whosepredecessor Cheping had held it of Earl Harold as Ralph de Mortimers holding passed probablyto the Bluets, and from this time there was but onemanor of Silchester, the property of the Bluet overlordship had passed by the beginning of the1
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . mesday SurveyMANOR there were two estates in SILCHESTER—one of 5 hides which Alestan had heldof Edward the Confessor, and which was then in thepossession of Ralph Bluet, who held of William deOw,5 and the other assessed at 3 hides and formingpart of the possessions of Ralph de Mortimer, whosepredecessor Cheping had held it of Earl Harold as Ralph de Mortimers holding passed probablyto the Bluets, and from this time there was but onemanor of Silchester, the property of the Bluet overlordship had passed by the beginning of the13th century from William de Ow to the Earl Mar-shal, who was returned bythe Testa de Nevill as holdingone knights fee in Silchesterof the old enfeoffment of theking in chief,7 but whether heheld it in right of his wifeIsabel de Clare, sole daughterand heiress of Richard deClare, Earl of Pembroke,8 orin his own right as brothera»d heir of John Marshal,marshal of the Kings Court Pembroke. Party or andand lord of the manor of vert a lion Hampstead Marshall (co. Berks.), is uncertain. Itcontinued with successive Earls of Pembroke until1245, when Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke andMarshal of England, died without The knightsfee in Silchester was then apparently divided intomoieties, half being assigned with the lordship ofHampstead Marshall, the castle of Strigul, and thehonour of Carlow, to Maud, eldest sister of Anselmand widow of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk ;11and the other half, with thehonour of Wexford and allrights of the earldom of Pem-broke, to John de Monchensy,elder son of Warine de Mon-chensy by Joan, youngest sisterof The formermoiety passed to Roger leBigod, Earl of Norfolk, sonand heir of Hugh,13 and onhis death in 1270 descendedto his nephew Roger le Bigod,Earl of Roger diedseised of half a knights fee in Silchester in 1 306,14when, according to his surrender of 1302,16 it passedto the Crown with all his other possesions, a
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