THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



habited {hospitate) and 20 uninhabited {inhos- 

 p'ltate), from which the king receives 26 

 shillings and 6 pence, and of this (money) 

 William de Warene receives half. 



In the time of King Edward the whole 

 was worth 26 pounds. The king had (one) 

 half and the earl the other. Now it is 

 worth 34 pounds, and from the new mint 

 112 shillings. Of all this William has (one) 

 half and the king the other. 



In the rape of Pevenesel [Pevensey] 

 William do Warene has 12 burgages [nwnsu- 

 ras), 7 inhabited {hospitains) and 5 not. (They 

 belong) to [in) Lestun [Laughton] a manor of 

 the count of Mortain.^ 



In Soneberge [Swanborough] Hundred 

 William de Warene holds in demesne 

 NiwoRDE [Iford]. Queen Edith [Eddid) held 

 it. In the time of King Edward it was 

 assessed for 77^ hides. When William re- 

 ceived it (there were) only 58 hides, because 

 the others were within the rape of the Count 

 of Mortain.* These 58 hides are assessed 

 now for 36 hides. There is land for 52 

 ploughs. On the demesne are 5 ploughs, 

 and 97 villeins (100 vUlani 3 m'nius) and 32 

 bordars have 34 ploughs. There (is) a church, 

 and 6 serfs, and 2 mills yielding {de) 23 shil- 

 lings, and 208 acres of meadow. Wood- 

 (land yielding) 30 swine. In the borough of 

 Lewes (are) 26 burgesses yielding [de) 13 

 shillings.^ From the pasture (come) 15 shil- 

 lings and 8 pence and 16 thousands of 

 herrings. 



Of this land the monks of St. Pancras^ 



XII. THE LAND OF WILLIAM DE 

 WARENE 



The Borough of Lewes in the time of 

 King Edward returned 6 pounds and 4 shil- 

 lings and 3 halfpence from the burgage-rents 

 [de gablo) and from the market-dues [de theolo- 

 neo). There King Edward had 127 burgesses 

 in demesne. The customary service they 

 rendered was [eorum comuetudo erat) : If the 

 king wished to send his men to patrol the sea 

 without going himself, they collected from all 

 the men, whosever land it was, 20 shillings, 

 and this money those had who were in charge 

 of the arms in the ships.' 



Whoever sells a horse in the borough 

 gives to the reeve a penny [nummum) and the 

 buyer (gives) another ; for an ox a halfpenny ; 

 for a man, in whatever place he may buy him 

 within the rape, 4 pence. 



He who sheds blood pays a fine of [emendat 

 per) 7 shillings and 4 pence. 



A man who commits adultery or rape pays 

 a fine of 8 shillings and 4 pence, and a woman 

 the same. The king has the penalty from 

 the adulterous man, the archbishop from the 

 woman. 



From a fugitive, if he be retaken, 8 shil- 

 lings and 4 pence. 



When the mint is renewed, each moneyer 

 gives 20 shillings.^ 



Of all these (payments) two-thirds [partes) 

 were' the king's and the third (was) the earl's. 



Now the borough returns in all [j)er omnia) 

 as much as it did then [sicut tunc) and 38 

 shillings in addition [de superphu). 



* Belonging to [de) the rape of Pevenesel 

 [Pevensey]" (are) 39 burgages [mamure) in- hold 6^ hides, and there they have on (their) 



demesne 2 ploughs and 10 villeins with 3 



» &i rex ad mare custodiendum sine se mittere suos 

 voluisset, de omnibus homimbus cujuscunque terra fuisset 

 coUigebant xx solidos and hos habebant qui in navibus 

 arma custodiebnnt. (See Introd. p. 382.) 



2 This is rather a puzzling phrase ; it may refer 

 to the issue of new dies for the coinage, or, as 

 seems more liiiel).-, to the ( ? annual) renewal of 

 the licence to coin. The question is further com- 

 plicated by the entry lower down of I I 2 shillings 

 de nova moneta ; this would seem to be the pay- 

 ment due from (? all, or each of) the moneyers in 

 1086, the other being the pre-Conquest payment. 

 The use of the present tense in this and the pre- 

 ceding entries can be explained by their having 

 been copied from some pre-Conquest document 

 (compare next note). 



3 Sunt altered to eraiit (see last part of preceding 

 note). 



* This possibly refers to the suburb of ClifFe, 

 which is separated from the remainder of the 

 borough by the river, which also forms the division 

 between the rapes. 



ploughs. These hides do not pay geld. 

 Of the same land Hugh ^ has 2 hides and 



5 This also probably refers to Cliffe. Although 

 this is the only case mentioned in Domesday of a 

 manor in Pevensey rape h.aving burgages, or haws, 

 in Lewes it is possible that there were others, as 

 an extent of West Firle, in the Burrell MSS., 

 mentions a messuage in Cliffe as belonging to the 

 manor. 



6 Of these 19^ hides, 8 were probably at Frog 

 Firle (see note 3, p. 413), with which went half a 

 hide in Parrock (see p. 41 5). As land of the manor 

 of Beddingham in Hawksborough Hundred is said 

 to have been held by Queen Edith (see p. 400) the 

 other 1 1 hides may have been absorbed into Bed- 

 dingham manor. 



' The suburb of Westout in Swanborough 

 Hundred. 



8 The priory of Lewes. 



9 Hugh fitz-Golde gave the church of Iford 

 and tithes there to Lewes Priory. 



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