BOLDON BOOK 



In Parva Halghtona [Little Haughton] 

 there are 5 men who lioIJ 8 acres, anJ at the 

 same time each one a toft and a croft, and tliey 

 render 5 shillings and 6 pence, and in another 

 part they render for 40 acres I mark. 



Adam of Sclby holds at farm the demesne of 

 the same place with the stock of 2 ploughs and 

 2 harrows and with sown acres, as is contained 

 in his indenture, with the grange and court and 

 close, and renders 8 marks, and he should find 

 litter for the lord bishop on his journeys to 

 Darlington, and moreover he keeps the houses 

 and the court of the lord bishop at Darlington, 

 and those things that are affecred there, at his 

 own expense, in return for a certain piece of 

 arable land which is called Hacdale, which he 

 holds in tiie field of Darlington over against the 

 hall on the east side beyond the water. The 

 p.isture with the sheep is in the hand of the 

 bishop, but Adam, if he wish, may have in that 

 pasture 100 sheep so long as he holds the afore- 

 said farm. The mill ofBurdon, for the damming 

 of the pond which is dammed on the land of 

 Halctona [Haugiiton], 12 shillings. 



In Great Halghtona [Haughton] there are 9 

 bovates which the villeins hold and they render 

 for every bovate 12 shillings of rent, and they 

 hoe corn 4 days for every bovate with i man 

 and they mow the meadows 2 days for every 

 bovate with i man and they cart hay i day with 



1 cart for every bovate and in like manner corn, 

 and they work from Lammas to Martinmas 2 

 days in I week with one man for every bovate, 

 and another week i day with 1 man and they 

 do 4 boon-days in the autumn and every bovate 

 ploughs and harrows half an acre and harrows 

 moreover i day with i man and threshes half a 

 chalder of wheat and carts i cartlo.id of wood 

 and carries loads with horses ; in this manner 

 they render and work until the bishop wishes to 

 appoint them otherwise. Gilbert holds 40 acres 

 for 2 shillings in exchange for the land which 

 his father held in drcngage in the same vill which 

 he quitclaimed for the aforesaid 40 acres and for 

 4 marks which the bishop gave to him, and he 

 ought to have charge of the boondays and to go 

 on errands. The son of Aid red holds 40 acres 

 there in like manner for 2 shillings for the land 

 which his father held in drengage in the same 

 vill which he quitclaimed to the bishop for the 

 aforesaid 40 acres to be held just as freely, and 

 for 4 marks which the bishop gave him on this 

 account and in like manner he has charge of the 

 boondays and goes on errands. Richard Dune 

 holds 37 acres of cleared land and renders in the 

 first year 45, The wife of Aldred holds 3 acres 

 of the bishop's alms. Walter son of Sigge holds 



2 bovates of 36 acres for 12 shillings only, at the 

 bishop's pleasure. There are 9 cottiers there, 

 every one of whom renders 6 pence and works 9 

 d.-iys and does 4 boondays in the autumn, and 

 they lift hay. Two tofts are in the hand of the 



bishop. Benedict* of Haughton holds the 

 demesne at farm with a stock of 4 ploughs and 4 

 harrows and with sown acres as is contained in 

 his indenture, and with the grange and byre 

 {hovarla)^ court, and close, and renders 20 marks. 



In VVessawe [Whessoe] there are 14 bovates, 

 and every bovate renders 1 2 pence and works I 

 day in every week in the year, and moreover 

 they mow the meadows three days and they do 

 4 boon-days in the autumn with the entire 

 household except the housewife, and every 

 plough ploughs and harrows i ^ acres and every 

 bovate carries I cartload of wood and they carry 

 loads with horses. Tuke holds 2 bovates and 

 renders 8 shillings, and does 4 boon-days with the 

 entire liousehold except the housewife and goes 

 on errands. Orm, his brother, holds 2 bovates 

 and renders 5 shillings, and does 4 boon-days like 

 Tuke, and works 13 days in the autumn and 

 goes on errands. Robert son of Meldred holds 

 I carucate, and renders 10 shillings and 6 pence 

 and does 4 boon-days with all his men except his 

 own household, and he or some one in his place 

 will be over the boon-works ; and his men plough 

 and harrow i\ acres, and Robert himself keeps a 

 dog and a horse and does utware as much as 

 pertains to the fourth part of one drengage and 

 finds 4 oxen to bring wine. A certain widow 

 holds I toft and croft and renders 6 pence and 

 works 8 days and does 4 boondays. 



Thomas de Hovyngham^ holds the demesne of 

 Kettona [Ketton] at farm with the stock of 4 

 ploughs and 4 harrows and with sown acres as is 

 contained in his indenture, and with the grange 

 and byre and other buildings which are in the 

 court which is enclosed with a ditch and hedge, 

 and he renders 20 marks. 



In Heghyngtona [Heighington] there are 16 

 villeins, each of whom holds 2 bovates and ren- 

 ders 10 scotchalders of malt, and the same of 

 meal, and the same of oats, and 63 chalders of 

 oat-malt (avermalt) by the measure of the hall 

 of Heighington, and 8 cartloads of wood, and 32 

 hens, and 1,000 eggs, and 36 shillings of cornage, 

 and I milch cow, and i castleman. Two 

 cottiers each hold i 5 acres and work through the 

 whole year 2 days in the week [and give with the 

 villeins their share of the common fine {icat) and 

 of the milch cow (nietride) and of yohvayting\fi 

 Three other cottiers hold 4 acres apiece and 

 work 2 days in the week from Lammas to 

 Martinmas and contrariwise i day in winter. 

 The villeins and cottiers hoe all the bishop's corn 

 of the same vill, and every week in the autumn 

 they find for every bovate I man to mow and 

 reap i day, and they do 4 boon-days with their 

 whole household except the housewife, and then 

 they have a dole. Moreover every villein ploughs 

 and harrows half an acre of oat stubble [averere) 



1 A : Walter. ' Adam de Helmede. 



8 The portion in brackets is found only in A. 



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