SUDSEXE 



HERE ARE ENTERED 



THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



IN SUDSEXE 



I King William 

 II The Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury 



III The Bishop of Chichester 



IV The abbey of Westmin- 



ster 

 V The abbey of Fecamp 



[Fiscannefuis) 

 VI Osbern Bishop of Exeter 



VII The abbey of Winchester xv 



VIII The abbey of Battle [la 

 batailgc) 

 IX The Count of Eu (Oiv) 

 X The Count of Mortain 

 XI Earl Roger 

 XII William de Warenne 



XIII William de Braiose 



XIV Ode of Winchester [Win- 



cestre) 

 Eldred 



THE LAND OF THE KING 

 King William holds in demesne Boseham 

 [Bosham]. Earl Godwin held it, and then 

 there were 56^ (hides), and it paid geld for' 



38 hides, and (does) now likewise. There is 

 land ? On the demesne are 6 

 ploughs, and 39 villeins with 50 bordars have 



39 ploughs. There (is) a church,^ and 17 

 serfs, and 8 mills yielding [de) 4 pounds all 

 but (minus) 30 pence. There are 2 fisheries 

 yielding (^f) 8 shillings and 10 pence. Wood- 

 (land) yielding {de) 6 swine. 



To this manor were appurtenant 1 1 haws * 

 in Cicestre [Chichester], which in the time of 

 King Edward returned 7 shillings and 4 pence. 

 Now the Bishop (of Chichester) has ten of 

 them by the king's gift {a rz-^c), and (so) there 

 is now one belonging to [in) the manor. The 

 whole manor in the time of King Edward, 



* Pro interlined. 

 8 A blank. 



^ Not the church of Bosham, which Bishop 

 Osbern held ; possibly the church of West Stoke 

 is meant. 



* These haws lay ' between the towergate and 

 the crossgate in the West Street ' (see Hay's 

 History of Chichester, p. 200). 



and afterwards, was worth 40 pounds. Now 

 likewise (it is worth) 40 pounds ; yet it returns 

 50 pounds by weight of assayed money [ad 

 anuram et pensum), which are worth 65 

 pounds (by tale). 



Of this manor Engeler* has 2 hides of the 

 king, and there he has I plough ."did i bordar. 



In Reredfelle [Rotherfield] Hundred 

 King William holds in demesne Reredfelle 

 [Rotherfield] of the fee of the Bishop of 

 Bayeux [Baioc[ens!s]).^ Earl Godwin held it, 

 and then, as [et) now, it was assessed for 3 

 hides. There is land for 26 ploughs.'' On 

 the demesne are 4 ploughs, and 14 villeins 

 with 6 bordars have 14 ploughs. There are 

 4. serfs, and wood(land) yielding [de) 80 swine 

 from the pannage. There is a park. 



In the time of King Edward it was worth 1 6 

 pounds, and afterwards 14 pounds. Now (it is 

 worth) 12 pounds, and yet it returns 30 pounds. 



* Engeler de Bohun. 



* Few of Ode's possessions are mentioned in 

 Domesd.iy as having been forfeited, though he 

 had been disgraced four years. 



' Note the disproportion of ploughlands to ' 

 hides. 



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