i] An Elizabethan Survey and Domesday Book. 13 



In 1300 there were 52 manors in the 19 vills of this hundred. 

 Of the 14 manors extending into Forncett vill, at least 7 cannot 

 be reckoned as manors till after io86^ 



3. The distribution of homesteads considered in relation to the 

 tenures by which they were held. 



In 1565, in Forncett St Mary, east of the Norwich road and north 

 of the site of Forncett manor house, were seven dwellings, five held 

 by free and two by servile tenure. In Galgrym, in the south-west 

 part of the parish, were 1 5 messuages of servile tenure, ten built and 

 five vacant, and one free messuage. The only other dwellings 

 standing in St Mary's appear to have been one near Cawdwell 

 Green, built upon land that was once the lord's demesne ; and two 

 near Bowford common that had been free but were now soiled ^ 

 Not far from these, on Lound Lane, was a vacant messuage that had 

 formed part of the servile tenement of Roger at the Lound. 



The percentage of servile messuages in Forncett St Mary, 

 counting vacant sites, was 70. 



In Twanton, along the western side of the main Norwich road, 

 was a row of 16 messuages, eight built and eight vacant. On the 

 east of the road were the rectory, the town house, a vacant site, the 

 vacant site of Clavers manor house, and beyond Southgate common 

 and extending into the present parish of St Mary's, four dwellings, 

 one unoccupied site, and the old Gild House. The other houses in 

 Twanton were in small scattered groups or isolated. These were 

 21 messuages, 14 built and seven vacant, of which four were east of 

 Southgate or Carr Hill common ; four were near Moorgate Green and 

 a fifth not far from this group ; nine were near Twanton Green, two 

 standing apart from the rest and from one another; the remaining 

 two seem to have been isolated homesteads. Of these 43 messuages 

 (exclusive of the rectory, Clavers manor site, the town and gild 

 houses), 14 were servile, 27 free ; the tenure by which the other two 

 were held is doubtful. Leaving the doubtful two out of account, the 

 percentage of servile messuages was 34. Counting only the home- 

 steads in eastern Twanton, i.e. in precincts X., XL, XII., but 15 '8 per 

 cent, were held by servile tenure. 



Of the 38 messuages in Keklington, of which 34 were built, there 



^ These are, Clavers, Aslacton Park's, Aslacton Priory, Wacton, Moulton, Williams, 

 Tacolneston. In 1086 Tacolneston was a berewic of Wymondham. 



2 For'soiled land' see p. 70 and ' Terra Soliata' {Eng. Hist. Rev., xiv. 307). 



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