A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



hay and pasturage is a revenue of 10 shillings. 

 The total value is 14 pounds and 10 shillings ; 

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

 was 1 8. This manor earl Harold held. 1 



XXIV. THE LAND OF RALF BAN- 

 GIARD 



Ralf Baingiard holds ALSIESWICHE [Als- 

 wick] 8 and William holds (it) of him. It is 

 assessed at 6 hides. There is land for 7 

 ploughs. On the demesne are 2, and a third 

 could be added. There 4 villeins have 3 

 ploughs between them, and there could be a 

 fourth. There are 1 1 cottars and 7 serfs. 

 Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, 

 pasture sufficient for the live stock of the vill, 

 and woodland to feed 10 swine. In all 

 its value is 7 pounds ; when received it was 

 100 shillings; T.R.E. 8 pounds. This 

 manor Almar, one of earl Guert's s men, held 

 and could sell. 



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In HOREMEDE [Hormead] William holds 

 of Ralf I virgate. There is land for a 

 half-plough, but it is not there. There is 

 wood only for fences. It has always been 

 worth 5 shillings. This land Wlward, one 

 of Asgar the staller's men, held. 4 The men 

 of count Eustace claim to have it back because 

 they had been seized of it for 2 years after the 

 Count came into possession of this honour (ad 

 hunc honorem venit), as the men of the hundred 

 testify. 



IN HERTFORD HUNDRET 



Ralf himself holds HEREFORDINGBERIE 

 [Hertingfordbury]. It is assessed at 5 hides. 

 There is land for I o ploughs. In the demesne 

 there are 3 hides and i virgate, and on it 

 are 2 ploughs, and there could be a third. 

 There 5 villeins with i Frenchman and 6 

 bordars have 5 ploughs, and there could be 

 two more. There are 1 1 cottars and 4 serfs, 

 and 2 mills worth 6 shillings. Meadow 

 is there sufficient for 3 plough teams, pasture 

 sufficient for the live stock of the vill, wood- 

 land to feed 200 swine. From woodland 

 and pasture is a revenue of 7 shillings. In 

 all its value is 8 pounds ; when received it 

 was 6 pounds ; T.R.E. 10 pounds. This 

 manor Alwin, a thegn of earl Harold's, held 

 and could sell. 



1 See Introduction, p. 299. 

 * In Layston. 



3 Gyrth, brother of Harold (J.H.R.). 



4 Compare the Hormead entry on p. 322 

 (J.H.R.). 



XXV. THE LAND OF RANNULF 

 ILGER'S BROTHER 



Rannulf brother of Ilger holds i hide in 

 STAGNEHOU [Stagenhoe 6 ] and William holds 

 it of him. There is land for 3 ploughs. On 

 the demesne is i, and 6 villeins have another, 

 and there could be a third. There are 2 

 cottars, and there is woodland to feed 20 

 swine. This land is worth 50 shillings ; when 

 received it was worth 20 shillings ; T.R.E. 

 4 pounds. This manor Turbern, a man of 

 king Edward, held and could sell. 



IN BRACHINGES [BRAUGHING] HUNDRET 



Rannulf himself holds in STANESTEDE [Stan- 

 stead] 17 hides 6 and a half-virgate. There is 

 land for 16 ploughs. In the demesne are 13 

 hides, and on it are 2 ploughs, and there could 

 be a third. There 4 villeins and (cum) a 

 priest and the reeve (preposito) of the vill and 

 4 Frenchmen have 8 ploughs, and there 

 could be 5 more. There are 6 cottars and 

 2 serfs, and i mill worth 10 shillings. Meadow 

 is there sufficient for 16 plough teams, pasture 

 sufficient for the live stock of the vill, wood- 

 land for 100 swine. There are also 7 bur- 

 gesses, who pay with other dues of meadow 

 and wood 23 shillings. The total value is 

 1 7 pounds ; when received it was I o pounds ; 

 T.R.E. 20 pounds. Alwin of Godtone 

 held 1 1 hides and a half-virgate of this 

 manor. Of these hides Ralf Tailgebosc gave 

 10 with his niece as a marriage portion to 

 Rannulf, and the eleventh hide he attached 

 to (posuit in) Honesdone [Hunsdon]. 7 The 

 other 7 hides 4 8 sokemen held. Four of these, 

 Anschil's men, had 4 hides, the other 10, 

 men of Alwine of Godtone, had 3 hides and 

 gave of custom to the King's sheriff 1 2 pence 

 yearly. But all the 14 could sell their land. 



XXVI. THE LAND OF HUGH DE 

 GRENTEMAISNIL 



IN BRACHINGES [BRAUGHING] HUNDRET 



Hugh de Grentmaisnil holds in WARAS 

 [Ware] 24 hides. There is land for 38 



* In St. Paul's Walden. 



6 1 8 hides, apparently, are accounted for in 

 the details (J.H.R.). 



7 It seems clear that ' Honesdone ' must be 

 Hunsdon, but the passage should be compared 

 with the words at the end of the survey (p. 344), 

 where Ralf is said to have taken this hide from 

 Stanstead and attached it to ' Hodesdone.' I 

 believe that the latter name is given in error for 

 ' Honesdone ' (Hunsdon) (J.H.R.). 



8 ? a scribal error for 14. 



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