HISTORV OF HARTING. 25 



the time of King Edward was valued at 80 pounds, 

 and afterwards at 60 pounds ; now its value is 100 

 pounds." 



It is plain from the large assessment of 100 pounds, 

 which one estimate would make equivalent to .10,000 

 of our money,* that the manor of Harting was, in the 

 days of the Conqueror, one of the largest in the 

 county. " Rogate " (says Horsfield ii. 92) " is not 

 particularised in the Conqueror's survey ; it was pro- 

 bably, with Terwick, parcel of the paramount manor of 

 Hertinges, and included in the terrier of that Lord- 

 ship." The extent of the ancient northern bounds of 

 the manor is still preserved in the name of Harting 

 Combe, which belonged to the Lords of Harting till 

 quite a recent date. The lands at Harting were 

 doubtless cleared at a very early time, partly because 

 the place was a stronghold under the hills and very 

 capable of defence, partly because the soil was found 

 to be unusually fertile. The backwoodsmen following 

 their hogs, tapped the soil at various places, and then 

 chose the best for tillage. In the Domesday survey 

 of Harting, there are in all 204 carucates of the lord's 

 land (perhaps 8,000 acres of arable), exclusive of the 

 60 hides of Church land ; for it is probable that the 

 clerks of St. Nicholas served the church. There is a 

 trace of this holding now : Harting Rectory is under 

 the manor of Rogate Bohunte (Sir John Hawkshaw), 

 which has, in this respect, absorbed the manor of 

 Arundel. There are in all 134 villani (men who farmed 

 small holdings under the lord of the manor, with certain 

 service in sowing and harvest); 42 bordarii (men who 

 performed lower and more service at the lord's board, 

 e.g. the gathering of his fuel, storing his grain, grinding 

 his corn, still, however, having their own holdings) ; and 

 20 servi or serfs, who belonged, as slaves, to the soil. 



Windham ("Wiltshire Domesday," 1788) thinks the Norman 

 pound was equivalent to twenty-two and a half times our own. 

 Thus 100 of Domesday money = .2,250 in 1788, but much 

 more now. 



