A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



and its appraising belongs here (hie apprecianda 

 est). 1 There is land for 12 ploughs. In the 

 demesne are 2 hides, and there are 4 ploughs 

 on it ; and I 5 villeins and (cum) a priest have 6 

 ploughs, and there could be 2 more. There are 

 2 bordars and i cottar and 8 serfs, and i mill 

 worth 5 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient 

 for i plough team and a half-plough team, 

 pasture sufficient for the live stock of the vill, 

 woodland to feed 500 swine. Its total value 

 is 22 pounds ; when received 20 pounds ; 

 T.R.E. 25 pounds. Wlwen held this manor 

 of the abbot of St. Albans on the day when 

 king Edward was living and died. He could 

 not separate it from that church (mittere extra 

 ecdesiam), to which it ought to have returned 

 after his death so the hundred court testifies. 



IN HERTFORD HUNDRET 



In ODESDONE [? Hoddesdon] Edward holds 

 4 hides less 30 acres. There is land for 3 

 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 hides, and 

 there is I plough on it ; and 4 villeins and 2 

 bordars have I plough between them, and 

 there could be another. There are 5 cottars 

 and 2 serfs. Meadow is there sufficient for 4 

 plough, teams,* woodland to feed 20 swine ; 

 from the fishery (is received) 150 eels. It 

 is worth 60 shillings ; when received it was 

 worth 30 shillings ; T.R.E. 60 shillings. 

 Gode held this manor of queen Eddid and 

 could sell. 



XXXIII. THE LAND OF GEOFFREY 

 DE MANNEVILE 



IN DANEIS [DACORUM] HUNDRET 



Geoffrey de Mannevile holds in TITEBERST 

 [Titeberst 3 ] and Ralf holds of him 3 virgates. 

 There is land for a half-plough. There are I 



fo. i3gb 



villein and I bordar, and woodland to feed 

 1 2 swine. It is and was worth 5 shillings ; 

 T.R.E. 10 shillings. Three sokemen held 

 this land. Two of these were Asgar the 

 staller's men, the third a man of St. Alban ; 

 he could not sell, but the other two could. 



Geoffrey himself holds BISSEI [Bushey]. It 



1 That is to say, that for fiscal purposes one of 

 the hides was in Tring Hundred, but that 

 the whole estate is here valued together (J.H.R.). 



* If the scribe has made no mistake, there was 

 meadow for one team more than required, an 

 anomalous entry (J.H.R.). 



3 See p. 308, note 4. 



is assessed at 15 hides. There is land for 10 

 ploughs. 4 In the demesne are 5 hides, and 

 there are 2 ploughs on it, and there could be a 

 third. Ten villeins and (cum) i Frenchman 

 and 8 bordars have 5 ploughs, and there 

 could be a sixth. There are 2 mills worth 

 8 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 

 the live stock, woodland to feed 1,000 swine. 

 Its whole value is and was i o pounds ; 

 T.R.E. 15 pounds. Lewin, a thegn of king 

 Edward's, held this manor. There is a 

 sokeman who was not there in king Edward's 

 time ; he holds i hide. He was one of queen 

 Eddid's men T.R.E. and could sell. 



Geoffrey himself holds SENLAI [Shenley]. 

 It is assessed at 8 hides and 3 virgates. There 

 is land for 9 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 

 hides, and there are 2 ploughs on it. Twelve 

 villeins there have 4 ploughs, and there could 

 be 3 more. Meadow is there sufficient for I 

 plough, pasture sufficient for the live stock, 

 woodland to feed 600 swine. Its whole value 

 is 4 pounds ; when received it was 5 pounds ; 

 T.R.E. 8 pounds. Asgar held this manor, 

 and there 2 sokemen, men of his, had I hide 

 and 3 virgates and could sell. 



IN ALBANESTOU [CASHIO] HUNDRET 



In CHAISSOU [Cassio(bury)] Turold holds 

 of Geoffrey I hide. There is land for i 

 plough, but it is not there. Meadow is there 

 sufficient for i plough team, and woodland to 

 feed 30 swine. It is and was worth 5 shil- 

 lings ; T.R.E. 2O shillings. Alwin the 

 huntsman, one of queen Eddid's men, held 

 this manor and could sell. Geoffrey attached 

 it to Bissei [Bushey], to which it did not 

 belong T.R.E. 



IN BRADEWATRE [BROADWATER] HUNDRET 



In DICHELESWELLE [Digswell] Torchil 

 holds of Geoffrey 2 hides. There is land for 

 8 ploughs and a half-plough. On the demesne 

 are 2, and 12 villeins with 3 bordars have 6 

 ploughs and a half-plough. There are 4 

 cottars and 2 serfs, and i mill and a half-mill 

 (unum molendinum et dimidium) worth 8 shil- 

 lings and 8 pence. Pasture is there sufficient 

 for the live stock, woodland to feed too 

 swine. In all the value is 4 pounds ; when 

 received it was 50 shillings ; T.R.E. 4 

 pounds. The same man who holds it now 

 held it T.R.E. He was one of Asgar the 

 staller's men and could sell. 



4 But the details only allow land for 9 ploughs. 

 Compare the Sandon case on p. 317, note i 

 (J.H.R.). 



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