A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



9 bordars and 3 serfs, and 2 mills worth 

 15 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 

 i plough team, and pasture sufficient for the 

 live stock, and wood sufficient for the fences 

 and the homesteads. The total value is and 

 was 1 8 pounds and 10 shillings ; T.R.E. 2O 

 pounds and 10 shillings. This manor was and 

 is part of the demesne (jacuit et jacet in 

 dominio) of the church of St. Alban. 



The vill of St. Albans is assessed at 10 

 hides. There is land for 16 ploughs. In the 

 demesne are 3 hides, and on it are 2 ploughs, 

 and there could be a third. There 4 French- 

 men and 1 6 villeins with 13 bordars have 13 

 ploughs between them. There are 46 bur- 

 gesses. The product of the toll and of the 

 other revenues of the vill is 1 1 pounds and 14 

 shillings yearly. There are 3 mills worth 40 

 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 2 

 plough teams, woodland to feed i ,000 swine 

 and producing 7 shillings revenue. Its total 

 value is 20 pounds ; when received it was 12 

 pounds ; T.R.E. 24 pounds. In this same 

 vill there are 1 2 cottars besides. There is a 

 'park' for beasts of the chase (bestiarum sil- 

 vaticarum) and there is a fish-stew (vivarium 

 piscium). The forementioned burgesses have 

 half a hide. 



IN BRADEWATRE [BROADWATER] HUNDRET 



CODICOTE [Codicot *] and OXEW'ICHE 

 [POxhey] 8 were 2 manors T.R.E., and now 

 they are i, which is assessed at 8 hides. There 

 is land for 1 2 ploughs. In the demesne there 

 are 3 hides and i virgate, and on it are 4 

 ploughs. There 16 villeins have between them 

 7 ploughs, and there could be an eighth. There 

 are i Frenchman and 3 cottars and 4 serfs, 

 and 2 mills worth 12 shillings. Meadow is 

 there sufficient for 2 plough teams, pasture 

 sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed 

 200 swine. Its total value is 6 pounds ; when 

 received 5 pounds ; T.R.E. it was 12 pounds. 

 These 2 manors belonged to the church 

 (jacuerunt in ecc/esia) of St. Alban T.R.E. 

 Alwin (of) Gotone held there 3 hides under 

 the Abbot and could not alienate them from 

 the church. Fifteen acres of this land were 

 encroached on by the count of Mortain's men 

 to the wrong of (super) the Abbot so the 

 men of the hundred (court) testify. 



The Abbot himself holds NORTONE [Nor- 

 ton]. It is assessed at 4 hides. There is land 

 for 10 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 hides, 



I Now is in Cashio Hundred. 



II In Watford. 



and on it are 3 ploughs. A priest and a 

 Frenchman and 14 villeins have 7 ploughs 

 between them. There are 5 cottars and i 

 serf, and 2 mills worth 16 shillings. Meadow 

 is there sufficient for 2 plough teams, and pas- 

 ture for the live stock. Its total value is and 

 was 1 6 pounds; T.R.E. it was 17 pounds. 

 This St. Alban held and holds in demesne. 



The Abbot himself holds ESCEPEHALE 

 [Sheephall] as 3 hides. There is land for 5 

 ploughs. In the demesne are i hides, and 

 on it is i plough, and there could be another. 

 There 8 villeins have 3 ploughs between 

 them. There are 2 cottars and i serf. 

 Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, 

 and pasture sufficient for the live stock, wood- 

 land to feed 10 swine. Its total value is 4 

 pounds ; when received it was 3 pounds ; 

 T.R.E. it was 4 pounds. This manor was 

 and is part of the demesne (jacuit et jacet in 

 dominio) of the church of St. Alban. 



IN DANAIS [DACORUM] HUNDRET 



The Abbot himself holds LANGELAI 

 [Abbot's Langley]. It was assessed at 5^ 

 hides T.R.E., and now at 3 hides. There 

 is land for 1 5 ploughs. In the demesne are 

 2\ hides. There are 4 ploughs on it, and 

 there could be a fifth. A priest there and a 

 Frenchman with 10 villeins have 10 ploughs 

 between them. There are 5 bordars and 

 2 serfs, and 2 mills worth 20 shillings. 

 Meadow is there sufficient for 5 plough teams, 

 pasture sufficient for the live stock, woodland 

 to feed 300 swine. Of this land a knight 

 (miles) holds a half-hide. Its total value 

 is 10 pounds ; when received it was 12 ; 

 T.R.E. 15 pounds. This manor belonged 

 and belongs to the church (jacuit et jacet in 

 ecclesia] of St. Alban. From this manor Herbert 

 fitz Ivo s took and occupied i hide what 

 with wood and field (inter boscum et planum) 

 in the bishop of Bayeux's time. This hide 4 

 belonged to the church of St. Alban on the 

 day when king Edward was alive and died. 

 It is now held by the count of Mortain. 



In REDBORNE [Redbourn] the same Abbot 

 holds 7 hides and i virgate. There is land 

 for 1 6 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 hides 

 and I virgate, and 4 ploughs are on it. There 

 1 6 villeins have 12 ploughs between them. 

 There is i serf, and there are 2 mills worth 



3 He was an under-tenant of the bishop of 

 Bayeux at several places in Bedfordshire and Kent, 

 and had erected an obnoxious mill at the entrance 

 of Dover harbour (J.H.R.). 



4 See Introduction, p. 291. 



