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Wo o l le C o rve S t re e t l y y , , 1 21 9 . S TOK E SA % CA STLE . OK % T ESA CASTLE (as it is commonly , though S erroneously cal led) is one of the most perfect and interesting specimens of an early fortified mansion in England ; and from the beauty of o its situation , in a valley b unded by steep and richly O % wooded hills , at whose base the river ney ows through int e re t sin luxuriant meadows , it forms an object as g to * the artist as to the antiquarian . At the time of the Norman conquest the manor o f fEldre d Stoke was held by , a freeman , under Edric S ylvaticus , a powerful Saxon thane ; but on the wild Edric joining in a revolt of the Welsh , his estates were 1 0 0 seized by the king , and in 7 the earldom of Shrews fi bury , with three hundred and fty seven manors in n Shropshire , were conferred by the Co queror on his kinsman Roger de Montgomery . D omesday Bo o k speaks thus of Stokesay The same Roger holdeth Stokes . Here are seven hides arable ffi geldable . The land is su cient for fourteen ox . teams . In demesne are five teams , and sixteen among the male an d female serfs and there are twenty V illeins n with eight teams , and ine female cottars . Here is a m ill yielding nine quarters of wheat yearly , and here is a miller and a keeper of bees . After the death of Roger de Montgomery and of so n his eldest , his estates were forfeited and Stoke again Bele sm e fell to the crown , in consequence of Roger de so n the younger , having espoused the cause of Robert , N n Duke of ormandy , in his attempt to obtain the E glish r t hrone . The greater part of his Norman followers e turned to their own country but Walter de Lacy having S o e is o n s i de e d b M r P e an d o he hi h a u t ho i ie s t k c r y . ark r t r g r t t o be o ne o f t h e b e s t s p e ci m e n s in E n gland o f a fo rtifi e d m ans io n a s dis in u i sh e d f o m a as l t g r c t e . M527 1 21 O L 4 ST KESAY CAST E . n n speedily resumed his allegia ce , obtained a pardo , and was allowed to hold Stoke and other estates from the c it e king in ap . n fe u fal t he In accorda ce with the customs of time , S the manor of toke , during the tenure of the Lacys , was o n bestowed by them , as superior lords , a branch of the ’ family of Say , Lord of Clun and Richard s Castle , of whom S a 1 1 6 Theodoric de y , in 5, gave the advowson of Stoke s a fi t so H au hm o n d y (the rs time called) to the abbey of g , fi an d also con rmed by Hugh de Laci as chief lord , he P gave some land at Stoke to the abbey of St . eter and S t P . aul at Shrewsbury i ’ n k ni ht s Hugh de Laci , in maki g a return of the g his y n fees of baron , states that Helias de Say ack owledges ’ a service of three knight s fees the kn ights t o be be n an d an d n twee the ages of sixteen sixty , be fur ished d . an with horses Helias de Say died soon after this , 1 1 was succeeded by his son Hugh , who died 94 , and was n n succeeded by a seco d Helias , who gives to A drew Fit zm ilo se rvic e and of Ludlow , for his homage and , , for n - S We t t lin t o n twe ty three marks , the mill of toke and g , m e n an d with suit of his , a messuage and meadow to be o n e held in fee for a rent of pound of pepper . n Though the name of Say has bee retained , the manor does not appear to have been long held by that family , for it had reverted to the Lacys before the an d n n accession of Henry I I I . conti ued in their holdi g n ‘ duri g several generations , till on the death of Walter de . i n 1 2 0 Laci , 4 , his estates were divided between two grand daughters ; Maud , the eldest , married Geoffrey de n an d Ge neville , had the castles of Ludlow and Weobley , an d and other estates , Margery , the youngest , married n an d Joh de Verdun , received Stoke as a part of her portion . This John de Verdun had considerable estates in in - n Leicestershire but the forty sixth of He ry I I I , being B and one of the arons marchers , he several others were o t he ir ordered to reside n border properties , to check the n i n cursions of the Welsh .