Excerpt from Shropshire Parish Registers, Vol. 14: Diocese of LichfieldThe manor of Leighton was held in 1086 by Rainald the Sheriff as a manor of three hides. He had three teams on the demesne lands and 6 neatherds, 4 villeins, 7 bordars, with a priest, and a Frenchman had 5 teams. The manor had a mill yielding 4/ yearly, and half a league of wood yielding 11d. In King Edward's time under Leuui, its Saxon lord, the manor had been worth 20/ yearly, but when it came to Rainald it was waste. In 1086 it had doubled in value, and was fully cultivated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.