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evidently entailing greater expense : possibly it was a render of food 

 which had to be sent to the lord wherever he might be. The whole 

 render bears a considerable resemblance to the rent in kind paid by 

 certain royal manors, and known as the 'farm of one day,' already 

 referred to. The entry continues : ' Now, between the borough and 

 the port of the river, and the ship-dues it pays 12 pounds, and yet 

 it is worth 13 pounds.' There was also here, as at Pevensey and 

 Lewes, a market, of which Robert son of Tetbald, as sheriff of the 

 honour, had the dues ' from men outside the liberty [de hominibus 

 extraneis).^ 



In all the boroughs there were besides the demesne burgesses, that 

 is to say those whose payments were made to the lord of the borough, 

 a greater or less number whose burgages while no doubt giving their 

 share towards the common payments of the borough yet belonged to 

 some other lord. Thus at Pevensey, where there had been in the 

 Confessor's day only twenty-four demesne burgesses, the Bishop of 

 Chichester had had five others, and the priests Edmer, Ormer and Doda 

 twenty-three between them. At the time of the survey, when the 

 Count of Mortain had sixty demesne burgesses, another fifty were in 

 the hands of certain of his sub-tenants. The terms ' burgess,' ' burgage 

 [masurd) ', and ' haw, or close {hagd) ' equate one another, and for the 

 purposes of Domesday are equivalent to ' a rent ' — which fluctuates but 

 averages about jd. — thus at Arundel the scribe with his love of 

 variety writes : ' Morin has a customary payment of 1 2 pence from 

 2 burgesses ; Ernald has a burgess paying {de) 12 pence ; Ralph 

 a haw of 12 pence; Nigel 5 haws which do service.' The render 

 of service or work by burgage tenants occurs again on a large scale in 

 Steyning, where the only details given are that ' there were in the 

 borough 1 1 8 burgages {masure) which used to pay 4 pounds and 2 

 shillings; now there are 123 burgages, and they pay 100 shilHngs 

 and 100 pence and have i| ploughs; they used to perform 

 works at the manor-court {ad curiam operabantur) like villeins 

 in the time of king Edward.' Mr. Ballard points out that it is 

 probable that all the non-demesne burgages, or at least most of them, 

 were appurtenant to certain manors in the neighbourhood. This 

 system of the attachment of a close within the borough to a manor 

 in the same district is particularly noticeable in the case of Lewes and 

 Chichester ; in the former thirty-five manors held between them 258 

 burgages in Lewes, the largest numbers being Iford and Patcham with 

 twenty-six each. South Mailing with twenty-one, and Barcombe with 

 eighteen. In the city of Chichester 142 burgages were held by forty- 

 three manors, the bishop's manors accounting for thirty-five, with an 

 additional ten granted to him by the king from his manor of Bosham.' 

 The possession of burgesses and houses appurtenant to various rural 

 manors is, in Domesday, one of the features of a county town, and 



' Ballard, The Domesday Boroughs, 19, 39. 

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