

BOLDON BOOK 



harrow I acre for every plough, and shall give 

 2 hens at Christmas. 



In WEST AUKLAND [West Aukland] there are 

 1 8 villeins who hold 18 l bovates and render for 

 every bovate 5 shillings, and find in the autumn 

 for every bovate 2 * men for reaping, and they mow 

 the whole meadow and make the hay and carry it 

 and then they have a dole once, and they cart corn 

 for 2 days and they render 1 2 8 hens and 1 80 eggs 

 and I milch cow, and they carry 3 loads between 

 Tyne and Tees. William Coupem holds 2 bovates 

 and renders 4 shillings of rent, and ploughs and 

 harrows half an acre and does 3 boon-days in the 

 autumn and goes on the bishop's errands between 

 Tyne and Tees. Utting son of Robert * holds 



1 bovate and renders 40 shillings and ploughs 

 and harrows half an acre and does other services 

 like William. Uttred of Quilnerby holds ' 2 bo- 

 vates and renders half a mark and ploughs I acre 

 and does other services like William. Hugh 

 Bridmund holds 8 2 bovates and renders half a 

 mark and ploughs I acre and does other services 

 like William. The brothers William, Geoffrey, 

 and Norman ^ hold 2 bovates and render I mark 8 

 and plough I acre and do other services like 

 William. Alan Fullo' (holds) i toft and I croft for 



2 shillings, 10 and he does 4 boon-days. And 

 4 other cottiers for their tofts and crofts render 

 4 shillings and 4 pence and do boon-days. Elstan 

 the dreng held 4 bovates and rendered 10 shil- 

 lings and did 4 boon-days in the autumn with all his 

 tenants except his own household, and ploughed 

 and harrowed 2 acres and went on the bishop's 

 errand between Tyne and Tees at his own cost, 

 and found 4 oxen for carting wine ; and that 

 land is now in the hand of the bishop until 

 Elstan's son be of age. From that land the lord 

 bishop has remitted 1 2 acres quit to the wife of 

 Elstan for the support of her sons, but the rest of 

 that land renders 13 shillings of rent and does 

 the other services which Elstan used to do. 



All the villeins of ALCLETSHiRE[Auklandshire], 

 namely of North Aclet [Aukland] and West 

 Aukland and Escumba [Escombe] and Newtona 

 [Newton] find for every bovate I rope for the 

 bishop's great hunts, and they build the 

 bishop's hall in the forest 60 feet in length and 

 1 6 feet in breadth within the posts with a but- 

 tery and a larder and a chamber and a privy. 

 Also they build a chapel 40 feet in length and 

 15 feet in width, and they have 2 shillings as a 

 favour (de caritate), and they make their part of 

 the hedge about the lodges. And on the bishop's 

 departure they have a full tun of beer, or the half 

 of one if he remained away. And they must 



1 Stowe MS. : 21. A : 3. 



A: 18. * A: Aldred. 



8 A : Uttred the forester and Richard hold. 



' A : Hugh and Godemund hold. 



7 A : John, Robert, and Julian. 



A: half a mark. 



A : Edwin. 10 A : 12 pence. 



keep the eyries of falcons in the district of Ralf 

 Callidus. And they construct 1 8 booths in the 

 fair of St. Cuthbert. Moreover all the villeins 

 and firmers go on the roe-hunt (rahunt) at the 

 summons of the bishop, and to the service of the 

 mills of Auklandshire. 



In PARVA CONDUNA [Little Coundon], there 

 are 1 2 cottiers, every man of whom holds 6 acres 

 and works from Lammas to Martinmas 2 days in 

 the week, and contrariwise i day in the week, 

 and they do 4 boon-days and render i hen and 

 100 eggs. The demesne of 6 ploughs in 

 Greater Coundon with pasture and sheep is in 

 the hands of the bishop. 



Geoffrey u of Lutrington renders 20 shillings 

 for his vill of LUTRINGTONA [Lutrington], and 

 does 3 boon-days in the autumn with all his men, 

 excepting his own household, and goes on the 

 bishop's errands and finds 4 oxen for carting 

 wine, and goes on the bishop's great hunts. 



Peter rendersS shillings for his vill of HENKNOLLE 

 [Henknoll], and finds 4 oxen for carting wine. 



In WYTEWORTH [Whitworth] there are 1 6 vil- 

 leins, every man of whom holds i bovate of 

 2O acres and renders and works (in) all things. 1 ' 



Thomas de Acley holds WHITWORTH A [Whit- 

 worth] for the free service of the fourth part of 

 one knight. 



Ralf of Binchester holds HUNEWYC [Hun- 

 wick] and renders 8 shillings of rent and 4 shillings 

 for Robert's assart. The assart of Byres \ mark. 



HARPERLEIA [Harperley] renders 2O shillings. 



In WOLSINGHAM [Wolsingham] there are 

 300 acres which the villeins hold and render 

 9 marks of rent, and they reap and cart all the 

 bishop's corn of the demesne of Wolsingham 

 with the help of the bishop's oxen, and they mow 

 the whole meadow of Bradleia [Bradley] and 

 lift the hay and cart it, and they do 180 days* 

 work at the bishop's order, and they cart 

 1 2O loads of wood, and they do I boon-day at 

 Bradwode [Broadwood] with the entire house- 

 hold except the housewife, and 4 boon-days at 

 Wolsingham, and at all their boon-days they have 

 a dole, and when they mow the meadows and 

 cart the corn and hay every man has a loaf of 

 bread. William the priest holds 40 acres and 

 renders I mark. James his son holds 60 acres 

 at Grenwelle [Greenwell] and renders I mark. 

 Walter Croc 6 acres and renders 3 shillings 

 and 2 pence, and goes on the bishop's er- 

 rands, and is over the workmen in reaping 

 and mowing. Roger the man of Gilbert of 

 Middlcham 9 acres, and he renders 5 shillings 

 and goes on errands and is over the workmen. 

 Roger of Bradley 40 acres at Bradley and he 

 renders half a mark, does the service of the forest, 

 namely 40 days in the fawning (fonneton) and rut- 



" A : Walter. 



1J In Stowe MS. the entry ends abruptly here, and 

 there is a space of one line before the note of Thomas 

 de Acley's tenure ; cf. sup. App. II. 



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