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Smala 4

Name

Summary

Smala 4 held two estates in south and west Wiltshire TRE with a total assessment of just over 8 hides and a value of £6.

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 Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 48,11	Vill Sherrington	DB Spelling Smalo	Holder 1066 Smala 'of Sherrington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Osbern Giffard	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 48,8	Vill Hill Deverill	DB Spelling Smail	Holder 1066 Smala 'of Sherrington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Osbern Giffard	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 3.13	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Smala 4’s two estates were at Sherrington and Hill Deverill.  Sherrington lies in the Vale of Wylye on the edge of Salisbury Plain in south Wiltshire while Hill Deverill lies further up the Wylye and 6 miles to the west of Sherrington.  Both estates correspond to parts of those confirmed to Wilton Abbey in 968 (S 766; Grundy 1920: 109-11; Abrams 1996: 107-9) but DB makes no reference to this, which suggests that their alienation into secular hands had occurred well before the Conquest.

DB records a Wiltshire landholder TRE who probably had Old English smæl ‘small’ (it occurs as Latin parvus in DB) as a byname , Ælfric, but there seems no reason to associate him with Smala 4.

Bibliography

Abrams 1996: L. Abrams, Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury: Church and Endowment (Woodbridge, 1996)

Grundy 1920: G. B. Grundy, ‘The Saxon land charters of Wiltshire’, Archaeological Journal, 2nd series 27 (1920)