THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



now. There is wood(land) for 15 swine, 

 (with) 1 2 acres of meadow. Then i mill ; 

 now 2. Pasture for 300 sheep. Now i salt- 

 pan. It then l rendered 2 nights' ferm (nodes 

 de firma) ; n and when Baignard held it, 14 

 pounds ; now 1 1 (pounds). To this manor 

 there belonged (jacuerunt) in the time of King 

 Edward 17 sokemen (with) i hide who ren- 

 dered all customary due(s) ; and after the king 

 came into this land, and Bain[ard] was sheriff, 

 Tedric Pointel obtained possession of (occupavit) 

 that land ; and when he received it there were 

 dwelling on (manebant in) it I 7 sokemen who 

 had 9 ploughs ; they are now in the king's 



fo. 6b 



hand(s), and 1 3 men hold this land and have 4 

 ploughs ; (there is) wood(land) there for 15 

 swine, with 2^ acres of meadow ; it was then 1 

 worth 4 pounds ; and when Tedric Pointel 

 held it 4 pounds ; now 40 shillings. Peter 

 (de Valognes) took over (accepit) on the de- 

 mesne of this manor 2 1 beasts (anima/ia) and 

 4 rounceys (runcinos) and 45 swine and 190 

 sheep. To this manor there belonged in the 

 time of King Edward an outlying estate 

 (btrrwita) of 4 hides which Engelric seized 

 (invasit) ; Count Eustace holds it.* There 

 also used to belong 21 sokemen holding I 

 hide and 2 virgates and 5 acres, whom Roger 

 de Ramis has in exchange, as he says and 

 he vouches Suain to warranty (inde vocat 

 liberatorem suanum). 3 And there were in this 

 manor, in King Edward's time, 4 sokemen 

 who rendered all customary due(s) ; Richard 

 son of Count Gilbert seized them (invasit) 

 when Suen was sheriff; they hold half a hide 

 and 15 acres, which are now in the king's 

 hand(s), because there was no one on Richard's 

 (ejm) part who could say how he came to 

 have them ; then as now (semper) i plough 

 was (there), and in King Edward's time it was 

 worth 13 shillings, and hitherto Richard has 

 had that rent.* Waleram seized I sokeman 



1 i.e. in King Edward's time. 



* There is some difficulty in identifying this 

 estate. The count had succeeded Ingelric in 

 several estates lying in Tendring Hundred, among 

 which was Dale Hall in Lawford, but this is 

 entered as a manor of only 2 hides ; nor, it would 

 seem, is Ingelric charged with seizing more than 

 j hide there (see p. 470 below). 



' That is to say he alleged that Swegen of Essex, 

 when in charge of the manor as sheriff, gave him 

 livery of this land (see Introduction, p. 413). It 

 cannot be clearly identified among his lands below 



(PP- 543-4)- 



* Under Richard's land (p. 480 below) we only 

 find 37 acres (at ' Aleforda ') entered as belonging 

 to Lawford, though held by him at the time of 



with (de) 30 acres ; (there was) then I plough, 

 and now none ; and it is worth 10 shillings ; 

 and Waleram has had that rent till now. 6 

 Hagebert 6 holds 30 acres, which were held 

 by I sokeman, and he vouches Suain to war- 

 ranty (inde revocat liberatorem suanum) ; (there 

 was) then i plough, (and) now a half ; it was 

 then worth 5 shillings and 4 pence, (and) now 

 32 pence. Count Eustace holds i hides and 

 45 acres which were seized by Engelric ; and 

 that land was held by 8 sokemen. The 

 Bishop of Bayeux holds half a hide, which 

 Ralf son of Turold holds under him. 7 Ranulf 

 brother of Ilger holds 1 5 acres ; 8 Hugh de 

 Mon(t)fort 30 acres ; Ralf Baignart half a 

 hide and 35 acres ;* Eudo dapifer 37$ 

 acres ; Roger, a man of the Bishop of Lon- 

 don, 10 i hide and 30 acres ; Walter the deacon 

 5 acres. AH this land used to render every 

 customary due to the abovesaid manor in King 

 Edward's time. 



fo.7 

 HUNDRET OF ODELESFORT [UfTLESFORD] 



NEUPORT [Newport] was held by Harold, 

 in King Edward's time, as a manor and as 8^ 

 hides. Now King William (holds it). Then 

 1 8 villeins; afterwards 15; now 26. Then 

 8 bordars ; afterwards 6 ; now 13. Then 4 

 serfs ; afterwards and now 2. Then 2 

 ploughs on the demesne ; afterwards and now 

 I. Then and afterwards the men had 8 

 ploughs between them ; now 10. (There is) 

 wood(land) for 100 swine, (with) 24 acres of 

 meadow. Then as now (semper) 2 mills and 

 IO beasts (animalia) and I rouncey (runcinus) 

 (and) 79 swine (and) 102 sheep. It used 

 then * to render 2 nights' ferm (noctes defirma). 11 

 There is, moreover, an outlying estate (bere- 

 wita) of 3 hides and 46 acres, which lies in 



the Survey ; and its rent was only 6 shillings (for- 

 merly 10). 



6 This does not seem to be accounted for under 

 his (son's) land. 



8 This was doubtless the Haghebern whose land 

 is entered on p. 561 below, but there is no men- 

 tion of this there. 



7 Under the bishop's land Domesday enters 

 a half hide at Alresford as having been seized by 

 Turold (of Rochester) RalPs father and as 

 being in the king's hands in 1086 because Ralf 

 could not prove his right to it (p. 460 below). 



8 These are duly entered, under his land, as in 

 the manor of Lawford. 



9 This estate is entered under his land, where it 

 is said that he claims to have obtained it by ex- 

 change. 



10 Probably the ' Roger ' who held of him New 

 Hall in Tendring. 



11 See Introduction, p. 336. 



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