A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



XLIII THE LAND OF HUGH DE 

 GRENTEMAISNIL'S WIFE 



IN HERTFORD HUNDRET 



Adeliz, wife of Hugh de Grentmaisnil, holds 

 BROCHESBORNE [Broxbourne]. It is assessed at 

 5^ hides. There is land for 6 ploughs. In 

 she demesne are 3 hides and 3 virgates, and i 

 plough is on it. There 4 villeins and (cum) 

 a priest and i sokeman and 2 bordars have 5 

 ploughs. There are 2 serfs, and i mill 

 worth 8 shillings. Meadow is there (produc- 

 ing) 6 shillings and 4 pence from the hay, 

 pasture is there sufficient for the live stock, 

 woodland to feed 200 swine. The total 

 value is 4 pounds ; when received it was 60 

 shillings ; T.R.E. 7 pounds. Archbishop 

 Stigand held this manor, and there was i 

 sokeman, man and reeve (preporitui) of the 

 same Archbishop. He had half a hide and 

 could sell. 



XLIV. THE LAND OF THE 

 DAUGHTER OF RALPH TULGEBOS 



IN BRACHINGES [BRAUGHING] HUNDRET 



The daughter of Ralf Tailgebosch holds 

 in HODESDONE [Hunsdon] 4 hides of the fee 



of Hugh de Beauchamp (Belcamp). There 

 is land for 5 ploughs. In the demesne are 

 2 hides, and there is i plough, and another 

 could be added. There 4 villeins with a 

 priest and a Frenchman and 8 bordars have 

 2 ploughs (between them), and there could be 

 a third. There are 2 cottars and 3 serfs, and 

 i mill worth (de) 10 shillings. Meadow is 

 there sufficient for 5 plough teams, pasture 

 sufficient for the live stock, woodland for 40 

 swine, and 10 pence from the pannage. The 

 total value is and was 70 shillings ; T.R.E. 

 6 pounds. Lewin, one of earl Harold's men, 

 held this manor and could sell, and of this 

 land Alwin of Godton, a man of king 

 Edward's, held i hide and could sell. Ralf 

 Tailgebosc took it from Stanestede [Stanstead 

 Abbots] and attached it to this manor. 1 



1 See p. 326, note 7 above, where it is shown 

 that this hide is there stated by the Survey to 

 have been attached to ' Honesdone.' As Hod- 

 desdon is in the Hundred of Hertford, while 

 Hunsdon is in that of Braughing, and, moreover, 

 adjoins Stanstead, there can be no question that 

 the scribe has written ' Hodesdone ' for ' Hones- 

 done' in this entry by mistake. Confirmation is 

 afforded by the fact that in the thirteenth and 

 fourteenth centuries lands are found in Hunsdon 

 held of the Beauchamp fee (J.H.R.). 



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