A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



(cum) 8 bordars have 4 ploughs. There are 

 2 cottars and 4 serfs, and i mill worth 10 

 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for i 

 plough team, pasture sufficient for the live 

 stock. In all it is worth IOO shillings ; when 

 received 60 shillings ; T.R.E. 7 pounds. This 

 manor was held by Elmer of Belintone, one 

 of king Edward's thegns. 



In HAINSTEWORDE [Hinxworth] the same 

 Peter holds i hide and i virgate. There is 

 land for 2 ploughs, and these are there. In 

 the demesne is half a hide, and on it is I 

 plough ; and i villein and (cum) 4 bordars 

 have I plough. There are 2 cottars. Meadow 

 is there sufficient for a half-plough team. It 

 is worth 20 shillings ; when received 10 shil- 

 lings ; T.R.E. 30 shillings. This land was 

 a berewick of Escewelle [Ash well]. Aimer 

 held it. 



IN RADEWELLE [Radwell] Roger holds of 

 Peter 2 hides as i manor. There is land 

 there for 3 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ; 

 and 5 bordars have a half-plough, and another 

 half-plough could be added. There are 2 

 serfs, and i mill worth (de) 6 shillings and 

 8 pence. Meadow is there sufficient for a 

 half-plough team, pasture sufficient for the 

 live stock. Elmer of Belintone [Bennington] 

 held this manor, and his brother held half a 

 hide of the same land. He was Elmer's man 

 and could sell. 



IN THE HALF-HUNDRET OF HlZ [HlTCHIN] 



In FLEXMERE [ ] Peter holds half 



a virgate. There is land for a half-plough. 

 There is i bordar. Woodland is there to 

 feed 5 swine. It is and was worth 3 shil- 

 lings ; T.R.E. 40 pence. Alvric, a man of 

 -(Elmer of Belintone, held this land and could 

 sell. He rendered i 'avera' (the service of 

 carrying i load) in Hiz [Hitchin]. 



IN HERTFORD HUNDRET 



In BELINGEHOU [Bengeo] Peter holds i 

 virgate. There is land for a half-plough, and 

 this is there, with I villein. It has always 

 been worth 5 shillings. Elmer of Belintone, 

 a thegn of king Edward's, held this land. 



In TEWINGE [Tewin] Aldene holds of 

 Peter 5^ hides. There is land for 5 ploughs 

 and a half-plough. On the demesne is I 

 plough, and there could be another ; and 4 



fo. I 



villeins and (cum) 5 bordars have 3 ploughs 



and a half-plough. There are 5 cottars and 

 I serf, and i mill worth (de) 8 shillings. 

 Meadow is there sufficient for 2 plough 

 teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock, 

 woodland to feed 50 swine, and there is a 

 revenue from this of 2 shillings. In all it is 

 worth 60 shillings ; when received it was 

 worth 30 shillings ; T.R.E. 4 pounds. The 

 same Aldene, a thegn of king Edward's, held 

 this land and could sell. But king William 

 gave the manor to this Aldene and his mother 

 for the soul of Richard his son, 1 as (Aldene) 

 himself says, by his writ to be shown (per 

 breve suum ostend[endum]). Peter now says 

 that he holds this manor by gift of the King. 



XXXVII. THE LAND OF HARDUIN 

 DE SCALERS 



IN BRADEWATRE [BROADWATER] HUNDRET 



Harduin de Sealers holds in SUEUECAMPE 

 [Sacomb] i hide. There is land for i plough, 

 and the plough is there, with 4 villeins. It 

 was and is worth 8 shillings ; T.R.E. 2O 

 shillings. Three sokemen held this land. 

 Two of these, men of Anschil of Waras 

 [Ware], held 3 virgates and could sell, and the 

 third, a man of Alvric Blac, had I virgate 

 and could sell. These 3 used to render i 

 ' avera ' or 4 pence yearly to the sheriff. 



IN ODESEI [ODSEY] HUNDRET 



In LUFENEL [LufFenhall] Tetbald 8 holds of 

 Harduin half a hide. There is land for I 

 plough, but no plough is there, and only 2 

 bordars. It is and was worth 5 shillings ; 

 T.R.E. 10 shillings. Alward, one of earl 

 Algar's men, held this land and could sell. 



In CLADHELE [Clothall] Tetbald 8 holds of 

 Harduin i virgate all but 3 acres. It is and 

 was worth 5 shillings ; T.R.E. 10 shillings. 

 Turbert, a priest of archbishop Stigand, held 

 this land and could sell. He found i penny. 3 



1 See Introduction, p. 298. 



8 It is remarkable that this tenant, who held so 

 largely under Hardwin in Hertfordshire, appears 

 (as 'Tedbaldus' [or 'Teodbaldus' or 'Theod- 

 baldus '] ' homo Hardewini ') among the Domes- 

 day jurors for the Cambridgeshire Hundred of 

 Triplow, in which he is not named as a tenant, 

 and which barely touched a corner of Hertford- 

 shire Q.H.R.). 



8 i.e. the commutation for ' avera ' due on one 

 virgate (J.H.R.). 



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