A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



lings ; now lOO shillings for the whole {inter 

 totum). 



There Hubert holds of the count 2 hides. 

 Alnod held them of King Edward, and could 

 betake himself (/r^) whither he pleased. There 

 is land for half a plough. On the demesne is 



1 plough, and (there are) 2 villeins and 2 bor- 

 dars with i plough and a half. In the time 

 of King Edward and afterwards (this) was 

 worth 10 shillings ; now 20 shillings. 



In Telentone [Tilton *] William de Ca- 

 hanges holds 2 hides of the count. Elfer held 

 them as {pro) I manor ^ of King Edward. 

 There is land for 2 ploughs. Then, as {et) 

 now, (this) was assessed for 2 hides. On the 

 demesne is I plough, and (there are) 2 villeins 

 with half a plough. Then and afterwards, as 

 {et) now, (this was worth) 20 shillings. 



The same William holds Serintone [Sher- 

 rington^] of the count. Edward held it of 

 King Edward, and could betake himself {ire) 

 whither he pleased. There is land for 5 

 ploughs. Then it was assessed for 5 hides ; 

 now half a hide is in the rape of Hastings.* 

 On the demesne is i plough, and (there are) 



2 bordars. 



In the time of King Edward it was worth 

 60 shillings, and afterwards 25 shillings; now 

 40 shillings. For the half hide which is not 

 there 20 shillings are deducted {decidunt). 

 fo. 2ia 



There Haminc holds of the count 5 hides, 

 and he himself held them of King Edward. 

 Then they were assessed for 5 hides ; now 

 half a hide is in the rape of Hastings.* There 

 is land for 4 ploughs. On the demesne (is) 

 I plough and a half, and (there are) 2 villeins 

 with half a plough and 3 bordars. In the time 

 of King Edward (this) was worth 60 shillings, 

 and afterwards 25 shillings ; now 40 shillings. 



Osbern holds of the count 4 hides in 

 Telentone [Tilton]. Godwin held them 

 of King Edward as {pro) a manor. Then 

 they were assessed for 4 hides ; now for 2 

 hides and 1 virgate." There is land for 4 



1 A manor in Selmeston. 



2 Pro uno manerio interlined. 



3 A manor in Selmeston. 



* One virgate of this is attributed to Esserin- 

 tone in Esseswelle Hundred (see p. 402). Possibly 

 the virgate in Gestelinges Hundred formerly held 

 by Edward may have belonged to this manor (see 

 note 9, p. 405). 



6 Under Sirintone in Esseswelle Hundred (see 

 p. 402). 



' One virgate was in Hawksborough Hundred, 

 under Telitone (see p. 400). 



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ploughs. There is nothing there now except 

 2 villeins and 4 acres of meadow. In the 

 time of King Edward (this) was worth 70 

 shillings ; now 20 shillings. 



There the count himself has i hide, Wil- 

 liam I hide, Ralph ^ I hide. Godwin held 

 this land. There is land for 4 ploughs. It 

 was worth 18 shillings; now 15 shillings. 



The count himself holds in demesne Ferle 

 [West Firle]. Tiie abbey of Wilton held 

 it in the time of King Edward, and then it 

 was assessed for 48 hides ; now for nothing. 

 Of this land 7 hides are in the rape of Has- 

 tings.® There is land for 40 ploughs. On 

 the demesne the count has 5 ploughs, and 80 

 villeins with 34 ploughs. There (are) 2 mills 

 yielding (^/i-) 30 shillings, and 72 acres of mea- 

 dow, and wood(laiid yielding) 40 swine. 



Of these hides the clerks of St. Pancras ^ 

 have 2^ hides, Roger i mill, Gozelin I hide, 

 William i hide, Gilbert 2 hides, the warders 

 of the castle (of Pevensey) ^^ {custodes castel/i) 3 

 hides and 20 acres. On (their) demesne (are) 

 6 ploughs, and (there are) 3 villeins and 1 1 

 bordars with 4 ploughs. There (are) 7 acres 

 of meadow. Also Gilbert holds 60 acres of 

 waste land. 



The whole manor in the time of King 

 Edward was worth 60 pounds, and afterwards 

 30 pounds. Now what the count has (is 

 worth) 40 pounds, what the other men (have) 

 4 pounds and 10 shillings. 



In CoNTONE [Compton "] the count him- 

 self holds 4 hides. Harold held them of King 

 Edward. Then, as {et) now, they were as- 

 sessed for 4 hides. This land is appraised in 

 Lestone [Laughton]. 



In Wilendone [Willingdon] Hundred 

 Walter holds of the count in Essete [Ex- 

 ceat] 2^ hides. Doda held them of King 



' Ralph de Dene, whose descendants held Til- 

 ton. 



8 Of land attributed to Ferle in Hastings rape, 

 in Shoyswell was i virgate (see p. 402) and i hide 

 l^ virgates (ibid.), in Henhurst half a virgate 

 (see p. 404), in Hawksborough i^ hides i virgate 

 (see p. 400) and I virgate (see p. 401) ; the re- 

 mainder of the 7 hides is to be found in the 4 

 hides less half virgate attributed to Belingham in 

 Hawksborough (sec p. 400). 



^ See Introduction, p. 376. 

 >" This is the 'Una figilium de Pevenesel de Hecton 

 [Heighten] ' of the Pipe Rolls of Henry II. (com- 

 pare note 3, p. 408). 



11 A manor in Berwick and Firle, sometimes 

 called Compton St. John's, from its having been 

 held by the Hospitallers. 



