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Mereswith 2

Name

Summary

Mereswith 2 was a small landowner in west Somerset whose single manor of ½ hide was worth £2.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 21,24	Vill Chilton Trivett	DB Spelling Meresuuet	Holder 1066 Mereswith 'of Chilton Trivett'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Courseulles	1086 Subtenant Ansketil the parker	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Mereswith occurs only once in DB, as holder of an estate of ½ hide at Chilton Trivett, close to the great royal manor of Cannington between the lower slopes of the Quantocks and the Parrett Levels. The other DB holding at Chilton Trivett was also assessed at ½ hide and had exactly the same resources as Mereswith’s share, namely land for 2 ploughs, 6 acres of meadow, 8 acres of pasture, and 16 acres of wood (Som. 21:23). A relatively recent division seems likely, though not so recent that the number of peasant households or ploughteams was the same on the two parts. Whereas Mereswith’s manor had a watermill, or shared one the neighbouring manor of Gothelney (Som. 21: 15) (the facts differ between Exon 425a1 and GDB), the other holding at Chilton did not (Phill. Som.: general note 21,24). Any family relationship between Mereswith and the other landowner at Chilton, Leofgar 13, is thus uncertain at best.

Bibliography

Phill. Som.: Domesday Book, ed. John Morris, 8: Somerset, ed. Caroline and Frank Thorn (Chichester, 1980)