A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



King Edward's time, by Goduin, a free man, 

 as a manor and as i hide and 3 virgates, is 

 held of Eudo by Turgis. 1 Then 2 ploughs 

 on the demesne ; now i . Then I plough 

 belonging to the men ; now none. Then 3 

 villeins ; now none. Now 2 bordars. Then 

 2 serfs ; now I. (There is) wood(land) for 

 50 swine, (and) 10 acres of meadow. Then 



1 beast (animal) and 30 sheep ; now 1 8 beasts, 

 4 rounceys (runcini), 19 swine, 75 (sheep ? 2 ), 



2 hives of bees. Of this estate (terra) are 50 

 acres, which were added (to it) in King 

 William's time ; and Lefsi 3 added them to 

 this estate. Then as now (semper) it was 

 worth 40 shillings. 



HUNDRET OF DoMMAWA [DuNMOW] 



RODINGES [Roding (Morel)? 4 ], which was 

 held, in King Edward's time, by Samar, a 

 free man, as i^ hides and 45 acres, is held of 

 Eudo by Turgis. 6 Then as now (semper) 2 

 ploughs on the demesne. Then 2 ploughs 

 belonging to the men ; now I. Then 9 

 villeins ; now 3. Then i bordar ; now 3. 

 Then 3 serfs ; now i . There is woodland 

 for 100 swine, (and) 19 acres of meadow. 

 Then i rouncey (runcinus) ; now 7. Then 



1 This was clearly the Turgis who held of 

 Peter de Valognes in the adjoining manor of Latton, 

 and who held of Eudo himself in Roding. 



2 The word is omitted in the MS. 



3 I strongly suspect this English name (Leofsige), 

 for which it seems impossible to account, to be an 

 error of the scribe for ' Lisois,' the name of Eudo's 

 predecessor (see note 1 1 below). 



4 To distinguish, in Domesday, the various 

 Rodings is a task of great difficulty. For Eudo's 

 manors there we naturally turn to the Colchester 

 Cartulary, where we find an episcopal confirma- 

 tion to the abbey of the whole tithes of Fulc 

 Dapifer in ' Roinges ' Abbess, and of the whole 

 tithe of the demesne of Ralf Morel in ' Roinges 

 Morel' with two-thirds of the tithe of the 

 demesne of Walter de Merc there. Walter's 

 manor of ' Merles,' though in White Roding, 

 adjoins Roding Morel, which is itself now a 

 hamlet in White Roding, so that we may fairly 

 identify the place in the text as above. Turning 

 to Eudo's other manor, Domesday places it in 

 Ongar Hundred, and Roding Abbess is one of the 

 two Rodings in that Hundred, so that its identity 

 seems tolerably certain. And although Fulc 

 Dapifer does not occur in Domesday we find 

 him in the Colchester Cartulary as a knightly 

 tenant of Eudo under Henry I. Morant, followed 

 by Mr. Chisenhale - Marsh, assigned both the 

 manors of Eudo to Aythorp Roding, but on what 

 ground I do not know. His account of the 

 parish shows no reason for this identification, and 

 he admits that Eudo's supposed grant of its tithes 

 'did not take effect.' 



6 See note i above. 



IO beasts (animalia) ; now 25. Then 6 

 swine ; now 89. Then 50 sheep ; now 225. 

 Now 55 goats and 8 hives of bees. It was 

 then worth 100 shillings ; now 6 pounds. 

 This manor is claimed by the Abbot of Ely, 

 says (teste) the Hundret (court). 6 



LINDESELES [Lindsell], which was held, in 

 King Edward's time, by Ulmar, a free man, 7 

 as I manor and as i hide, is held by Eudo 

 in demesne. Then as now (semper) 2 

 ploughs on the demesne, and 3 ploughs be- 

 longing to the men. There are 9 villeins 

 and i priest. Then i bordar ; now 9. 

 Then 4 serfs ; now * i . (There is) wood- 

 (land) for 30 swine, 6 acres of meadow, (and) 

 now I mill. Then I rouncey (runcinus), 

 and 5 beasts (animalia), and 60 swine ; now 

 I rouncey, and . . . 8 It was then worth 



fo. 49b 



IOO shillings ; now 6 pounds. And this 

 manor was worth the same (tale erat) when 

 (he) received (it). 9 



HUNDRET OF WITBRICTESHERNA [DENGIE] 



MUNDUNA [Mundon] was held by God- 

 uin, a king's thegn, as i manor and as IO 

 hides. Now Eudo holds (it) in demesne. 

 Then 10 villeins ; now 15. Then 8 bor- 

 dars ; now 14. Then 9 serfs; now 7. And 

 (there were) 2 French men (franci homines 10 ) 

 who have half a hide, which Lisois u seized 

 (occupavii) because one of them became an out- 

 law (utlagavit). In this manor (there) are 4 

 ploughs on the demesne. Then 8 ploughs 

 belonging to the men ; now 10. And (there 

 are) 2 arpents of vineyard (v'meee). (There 

 is) wood(land) for 24 swine, (and) pasture for 

 2OO sheep. Then 4 rounceys (runcini) and 

 8 beasts (animalia), 40 swine, (and) 250 

 (sheep) ; now 4 rounceys, and 1 5 beasts, and 



6 It is interesting to observe that this last sen- 

 tence has been crowded in after the entry had been 

 written. 



7 This must be Wulfmar of Eaton, a great 

 Bedfordshire thegn, who is found as Eudo's pre- 

 decessor in that county. In Essex we find him 

 succeeded by Eudo at Hawkwell, Shellow, Takeley, 

 Theydon, and Roding (Abbess ?), as well as at 

 Lindsell. 



8 The folio ends here. 



9 This seems to be the best rendering of this 

 abnormal formula ; for values were usually given 

 as for these three periods. 



10 There is always considerable doubt whether 

 this phrase may not imply free holders instead of 

 'French men.' 



11 Eudo's predecessor, Lisois de Moustiers (de 

 Monasteriis). 



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