A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



time of King Edward 4 free men with (de) 4 

 hides which rendered customary dues. Now 

 fo. 3 



Robert son of Corbutio holds 3 hides l and 

 Hugh de Montfort the fourth hide * ; they 

 have not paid the customary due since they had 

 them. And moreover the same Robert (son of 

 Corbutio) holds 4^ hides which used to be 

 held by a free man as appurtenant to (ad) this 

 manor in the time of King Edward. 3 There 

 was also appurtenant (attinebat) I sokeman 

 with (de) 30 acres who rendered the customary 

 due ; and now John son of Waleram holds 

 (it). And this manor was worth 36 pounds 

 in the time of King Edward ; now 40 ; and 

 Peter the sheriff receives from it 80 pounds 

 rent (de censu) and 10 pounds fine (gersuma).* 

 To this manor there belong 20 acres lying in 

 LOCHETUNA [Loughton], which were held in 

 the time of King Edward by Harold's reeve ; 

 now the king's reeve holds (them) ; and they 

 are worth 40 pence. 



HUNDRET OF DoMMAWA [DUNMOW] 



In SCELDA [Shellow (Bowells)] (are) 3 

 sokemen with (de) 35 acres, and this is worth 

 3 shillings and 10 pence. 



HUNDRET OF WITBRICTESHERNA [DENGIE] 



In LESSENDUNA [Latchingdon] Alwin', a 

 free man, held in the time of King Edward 

 half a hide and 30 acres. Afterwards Tedric 

 Pointel seized (invasit) it ; and now the king 

 has it. Then as now (semper) half a plough ; 

 and it is worth 15 shillings. Of the same 

 estate (terra) I villein holds 30 acres at (ad) 

 Estolleia [ ] and it is worth 5 



shillings ; and another villein 1 5 acres, and it 

 is worth 3 shillings. And 3 men hold half a 

 hide and 10 acres, and (there is) half a 

 plough ; it was then worth 8 shillings ; now 

 5 shillings and 4 pence. 



In LACENDUNA [Latchingdon] Lewin', a 

 free man, (held) 30 acres in the time of King 

 Edward. (There was) then half a plough ; 



1 These would seem to be the 3 hides at Leyton 

 (Leintuna) which Domesday enters under the fief 

 of Robert son of Corbutio (p. 546), explaining that 

 they had been held by 8 sokemen who had ren- 

 dered and who were still rendering (?) their cus- 

 tomary dues to the king's manor of Havering 

 (HaveRngee). 



2 This was certainly one of the 3| hides held by 

 Hugh at Leyton, of which we read (p. 497) that 

 this hide used to pay the customary due to 

 Havering, but did so no longer. 



3 These 4^ hides were similarly at Leyton 

 (see p. 546) and are entered as having been held 

 by Harold. 



4 Consideration money for the lease. 



now none. It was then worth 8 shillings ; 

 now 5 (shillings) and 4 pence. In the same 

 (place) there were 8 free men in the time of 

 King Edward ; now (there are) 4 with (de) 

 52 acres ; (this) was then worth 8 shillings ; 

 now 4 shillings and 4 pence. 



In RODINGES [(White) Roding] Golstan, a 

 sokeman of King William, holds I hide and 

 has never rendered service or customary due 

 for it, and therefore he has given pledge (idea 

 dedit vadem). 6 In this hide there is I plough 

 on the demesne, and i bordar and 3 serfs. 

 (There is) wood(land) for 10 swine (and) 10 

 acres of meadow. It was then worth 20 

 shillings ; now 30. 



fo. 3b 



HUNDRET OF ODELESFORDA [UTTLESFORD] 



CESTREFORDA [(Great) Chesterford] was held 

 by Earl Edgar (sic) 6 in the time of King Edward 

 as i manor and as 10 hides. Now Picot the 

 sheriff 7 (has the custody of it) in the king's 

 hand(s). Then as now (semper) 4 ploughs on 

 the demesne. Then the men had 1 8 ploughs ; 

 afterwards and now 14. Then as now (sem- 

 per) 24 villeins, and 13 bordars, and 6 serfs. 

 (There is) wood(land) for 1,000 swine, (and) 

 1 5 acres of meadow. Then as now (semper) 



2 mills. There belongs to (jacet) this manor 

 l hides in Cambridgeshire (cantebruge scira); 8 

 then as now (there were there) 7 villeins and 



3 bordars, and a mill, and 3 ploughs belonging 

 to the men. All this was worth then 24 

 pounds ; afterwards and now 30. In the 

 demesne of this manor are 2 rounceys (runcini), 

 and 7 beasts (animalia), and 6 1 swine, and 8 1 

 sheep, and 87 goats. To this manor there 

 belonged (adjacebat) in the time of King 

 Edward i^ hides which Hardwin 'de Sca- 

 lariis' holds, but by what right (quomodo) 

 the Hundred (court) knows not. The half 

 hide was of the demesne, and on it dwelt 

 one man ; and the other (sic) hide was held 

 by a sokeman who used to render his soke 

 dues (reddebat socam) in the king's manor. 9 



6 See Introduction, p. 412. 



6 See ibid. p. 337 and p. 431, note 4, below. 



7 Of Cambridgeshire. 



8 This must have been at Histon, Cambs, to 

 the north of Cambridge. Domesday expressly 

 states (i. 189^) that Picot had there i hides 

 ' of the manor of Chesterford,' which were taxed 

 in their Cambridgeshire Hundred, but ' appraised 

 in Essex.' 



9 These two holdings were probably the ' half 

 hide ' at Babraham held under Hardwin by Du- 

 rand, of which Domesday observes : ' Hec terra 

 est de feudo regis,' and the ' I hide ' at Histon 

 held of Hardwin by Durand (fo. 198), which had 

 been held by Estred ' under Earl 



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