A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



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IX. THE LAND OF ST. MARY OF 

 BARKING [BERCHINGES] 



HUNDRET OF BERDESTAPLA [BARSTABLE] 



MUCINGA [Mucking] is held by St. Mary 8 

 as 7 hides ; and Turold de Rovecestra 

 [Rochester] took away from it (inde) 30 acres, 

 and they (now) belong to (jacent ad) the fief 

 of the Bishop of Bayeux. 3 And there was I 

 plough on the demesne in King Edward's time; 

 now 2. Then as now (semper) 9 ploughs be- 

 longing to the villeins, 4 and 12 villeins. Then 

 14 bordars ; now 25. Then 4 serfs; now 

 none. Wood(land) for 300 swine, pasture for 

 300 sheep, (and) 40 acres of meadow. Now 

 i mill. (There is) i fishery. (There are) 10 

 beasts (animalla), 2 rounceys (runcini), 1 8 

 swine, (and) 250 sheep. Then as now (sem- 

 per) it was worth 10 pounds. 



BULGEVEN [Bulphan] is held by St. Mary 

 as 7 hides. Then i plough on the demesne ; 

 now 2. Then 7 ploughs belonging to the 

 men ; now 10. Then 10 villeins ; now 16. 

 Then 5 bordars ; now 1 6. (There are) 3 

 serfs. Wood(land) for 500 swine. (There 

 are) 8 beasts (animalia), 15 swine, I rouncey 

 (runcinus), (and) 80 sheep. It was then worth 

 8 pounds; now 10. From this land Ravengar 

 took (away) 24 acres. 



In FANTUNA [Fanton (Hall 6 )] i villein 

 holds 40 acres of land ; then as now (semper) 

 half a plough (there) ; and it is worth 40 

 pence. 



Of (De) the abovesaid manor, namely Much- 

 inga [Mucking] William holds half a hide 

 and 30 acres ; and (there are) 3 bordars ; and 

 it is worth 18 shillings of (/') the abovesaid 

 appraisement of the same manor. 



In this Hundred are 6 free men who hold 2 

 hides and 50 acres. Then as now (semper) 2 

 ploughs (were there). Then 3 bordars ; now 

 6. Then i serf ; now none. Then wood- 



1 At the top of fo. 17 is a list of the ten next 

 tenants-in-chief, which has been deleted. The 

 rest of that folio is blank (compare p. 413 and 

 p. 437, note 5, above). 



8 Barking Abbey. 



3 I feel no doubt that these are entered below 

 (p. 456), under the fief of the Bishop of Bayeux, at 

 Chadwell (held of him by 'the son of Turold'), 

 where we read that 30 acres of the land there had 

 belonged ' to another estate ' (terrani). 



4 ' Villanis,' not ' hominum ' (as usual). 

 6 A manor in North Benflet. 



(land) for 100 swine ; now for 55. (There is) 

 a 1 3th part of i fishery. The whole is 

 worth 30 shillings. These free men belonged 

 to (exstiterunt ad) Barking (berchinguni) ; but 

 now the king can do with them (ex ipsis) what 

 he likes (quod sibl placuerii). From the wood- 

 (land) of this estate (terree) Robert Gernon 6 

 (grinon) has 50 swine. And of the abovesaid 

 estate (terra) Godwine cudhen holds 3 vir- 

 gates ; and it is worth i o shillings. 



HALF HUNDRET OF HERLAUA [HARLOW] 



In PERENDUNA [Parndon] St. Mary holds 

 now as then (semper) half a hide. Half a 

 plough (is there, and) I bordar. Wood(land) 

 for 10 swine, and 5 acres of meadow. It is 

 worth 10 shillings. 



HUNDRET OF BEVENTREU [BECONTREE] 



[Barking] is held now as then 

 (semper) by St. Mary as 30 hides. Then 4 

 ploughs on the demesne ; now 3, and a 4th 

 could be (employed). Then 70 ploughs 

 belonging to the men ; now 68. Then 100 

 villeins; now 140. Then 50 bordars; now 

 90. Then 10 serfs; now 6. Wood(land) for 

 1,000 swine, (and) 100 acres of meadow. 

 (There are) 2 mills, i fishery, 2 rounceys (run- 

 cini), 34 beasts (animalia), 150 swine, 114 

 sheep, 19 goats, (and) 10 hives of bees. In 

 London (there are appurtenant) 28 houses, 



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which render 8 13 shillings and 8 pence, 



and a moiety of a church which, in King 

 Edward's time, used to render 6 shillings and 8 

 pence, and now does not. This manor was 

 worth, in King Edward's time, 80 pounds ; 

 and now the same (similiter) as the English 

 say ; but the French appraise it at 100 pounds. 

 To this manor there used to belong, in King 

 Edward's time, 24 acres, which Goscelin the 

 lorimer has taken from it. 9 And 3 knights 

 hold 2 hides ; and (there are there) 3 ploughs, 

 and 3 villeins, and i o bordars ; and it is worth 

 45 shillings of the above sum (in eodem pretio). 10 



HUNDRET OF WENSISTREU [WINSTREE] 



WICGHEBERGA [Wigborough "] is held by 

 St. Mary now as then (semper) as 1 1 hides and 

 1 3 acres. Then 2^ ploughs on the demesne ; 



6 The king's forester. 



7 Compare p. 444, note 8, above. 



8 A slight gap here in the MS. 



9 His own estate was at Little Ilford close by. 

 10 The entry of the 3 knights' holding was 



crowded in subsequently. 



11 i.e. the manor of Abbess Hall in Great Wig- 

 borough. 



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