HERFORDSCIRE 



borough of Hertforde was assessed at 10 hides T.R.E. and 

 now it is not assessed (modo non facit). There were 146 burgesses in 

 the soke of king Edward. Of the (houses of) these count Alan now 

 has 3 which rendered dues then and do so still. Eudo ' Dapifer ' has 

 2 houses which were Algar's (of Cochenac) and then rendered dues and 

 do so now ; and the same Eudo has a third house which was Ulmar's 

 (of Etone) : this renders no dues. Geoffrey de Bech has 3 houses all 

 rendering dues. Humfrey de Anslevile holds under Eudo 2 houses 

 and i garden. Of these one was lent to one of the King's reeves 

 (cuidam prefecto regis] ; the other, together with the garden, belonged 

 to one of the burgesses, and now the burgesses claim them back as 

 having been taken from them by injustice. King William has there 

 1 8 other burgesses who were earl Harold's men and earl Leuuin's. 

 All these render dues. Peter de Valongies has 2 churches and a 

 house with them, which he bought of Ulwi of Hatfelde [Hatfield], 

 rendering all dues. Ulwi could assign (dare) or sell them. Geoffrey 

 de Magnevile has a certain holding which was Esgar the staller's 

 and 7 houses which rendered no due except the King's geld when 

 that was collected. Ralf Baniard has 2 houses which then rendered 

 dues and do so now. Harduin de Sealers has 14 houses which Achi 

 had T.R.E. They rendered no dues except the King's geld. For these 

 Harduin claims the King as warrantor (advocat regem ad protectoreni) . 

 Up to the present Harduin has i house as the King's gift which be- 

 longed to one of the burgesses, and he renders every due. 



This township (hoc suburbiuni) pays 20 pounds assayed and weighed 

 out, and 3 mills pay 10 pounds by tale. When Peter the sheriff 

 received it it paid 15 pounds by tale ; T.R.E. it used to pay 7 pounds 

 and 10 shillings by tale. 



NOTE 



The reader should bear in mind throughout that the date of the Domesday 

 Survey is 1086, and that King Edward, to whose time it refers as ' T.R.E.,' 

 died January 5, 1066. In Hertfordshire the value of an estate at the inter- 

 mediate date when it passed into possession of the new holder is sometimes 

 prefaced by the words ' when he received (if) ,' and sometimes only by the vague 

 statement that it ' was worth ' ; when the word ' always ' is added, the meaning 

 is that the value was the same at this intermediate date as at King Edward 's 

 death. The l hide* was the unit of assessment on which the (Dane}geld was 

 paid, and the ' virgate ' was its quarter and was itself divided into 30 ' acres.' 

 The essential plough ( ' caruca ') was its team of oxen, reckoned as eight in 

 number ; thus ' half a plough ' meant four oxen. The ' demesne ' was the 

 lord's portion of the manor, the peasantry holding the rest of it under him ; 

 and a l berewick' was an outlying estate dependent on the chief manor. 'Sokemen' 

 and similar terms are discussed in the Introduction. 



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