A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



Gudmund * as a manor and as 3^ hides and 20 

 acres. Then as now (semper) 2 villeins. 

 Then 2 bordars ; now 4. Then 5 serfs ; 

 now 4. Then as now (semper) 2 ploughs on 

 the demesne, and half a plough belonging to 

 the men. (There is) pasture for 200 sheep, 

 (and) wood(land) for 100 swine. It was then 

 worth 7 pounds ; afterwards and now i oo 

 shillings. Of this same manor Humfrey 

 holds 2 hides of Hugh, and Ulmar i hide ; 

 and these are worth 60 shillings out of the 

 above amount (in eodem pretio). 



In PURLAI [Purleigh] 10 free men held 7 

 hides, which Hugh received as 2 manors. 8 

 But the Hundret (court) has no knowledge of 

 this (hoc nescit 3 ). There were then on this 

 land (in hoc terra] 4 bordars ; now 8. Then 

 i serf ; now none. Then 8 ploughs ; now 

 6. (There is) wood(land) for 15 swine, (and) 

 pasture for 100 sheep. Then and afterwards 

 it was worth 6 pounds ; now 100 shillings. 



Hugh holds further (adhuc) in PURLAI 

 [Purleigh] i manor of i^ hides and 8 acres, 

 which was held, in King Edward's time, by 

 3 free men with (the) soke. 4 Then as now 

 (semper) i^ ploughs. There is pasture for 40 

 sheep. Then as now (semper) it was worth 

 2O shillings. The whole abovesaid estate 

 was worth, when he received it, 30 pounds. 6 



in King Edward's time, by Alwin, a thegn, 

 as a manor and as 2 hides, is held by Hugh 

 in demesne. Then i bordar, and i villein ; 

 now the same. Then as now (semper) I serf 

 and i plough on the demesne. (There is) 

 pasture for 40 sheep. It was then worth 30 

 shillings ; when he received it, 2O shillings ; 

 now 30. 



ESTOLEIA [ 7 ], which was held by 



8 is held by Hugh in demesne. 

 Then as now (semper) 2 villeins. Then 2 

 bordars ; and now the same. And (there 

 was) i i ploughs, and (are) now the same. It 

 is worth 30 shillings. 



HUNDRET OF WENSISTREU [WINSTREE] 



LEGRA [Layer 9 ], which was held, in King 

 Edward's time, by Liwin, a free man, as a 

 manor and as i^ hides and 18 acres, is held 

 by Hugh in demesne. Then as now (semper) 

 i ploughs on the demesne. Now half a 

 plough belonging to the men. Now 3 bor- 

 dars. Then 3 serfs ; now none. Then as 

 now (semper) 3 cows. Then 2O sheep ; now 

 60. (And there are) now 14 swine, and I 

 rouncey (runcinus) and 7 goats. It was then 

 worth 50 shillings ; and when he received 

 (it), 2O shillings ; now 40 shillings. 



fo. 



HALESDUNA [ 6 ], which was held, HUNDRET OF HIDINGAFORDA [HINCKFORD] 



RAINES [Rayne (Hall)], which was held by 

 Gudmund 10 as a manor and as 2 hides less 20 

 acres, is held of Hugh by Alcher. Then as 

 now (semper) 3 ploughs on the demesne. 

 Then and afterwards 7 ploughs belonging to 

 the men ; now 2^. Then and afterwards 

 1 8 villeins ; now 5. Then and afterwards 

 6 bordars ; now 7. Then and afterwards 6 

 serfs ; now 4. (There is) wood(land) for 

 150 swine, (and) 1 6 acres of meadow. Then 

 as now (semper) i mill, and i rouncey (runcinus). 

 Then 1 8 beasts (animalia) ; now 1 7. Then 

 as now (semper) 70 sheep, and 10 goats. Then 

 and afterwards it was worth 6 pounds ; now 7. 



as an escheat, to a family which took its name. 

 The manor held by Hugh must be that of Tiled 

 Hall, a sit paid castle-guard rent to Dover. Morant 

 wrongly identified this manor as that which Phin's 

 widow held in 1086. 



1 See p. 497, note 3, above. 



* This passage should be noted as bearing on 

 the use of the word ' manor.' 



3 The statement seems to have been made on 

 Hugh's behalf ; and the men of the ' Hundred ' 

 probably stated that they had not seen any one 

 give him seizin of the land or any writ of the 

 king to that effect. 



4 i.e. the soke of the land was vested in them. 



5 This appears to refer to his lands in Latching- 

 don and Purleigh, but the estimate is a high one. 

 His Purleigh estate alone was assessed at over 12\ 

 hides, but Purleigh is a parish containing over 

 5,000 acres, and its detached portion, ' Gibcrakes,' 

 in Danbury and Sandon was included in Hugh's 

 holding, as is shown by the fact that, with South- 

 house in (St. Mary's) Maldon and lands in Snore- 

 ham, it passed to John de Grey, who received 

 Purleigh as an escheat from Henry III. (Hundred 

 Rolls, i. 159), and was held by his descendants the 

 Greys of Wilton. 



6 The name appears to be now lost, but the 

 place was in or close to Mundon (see Introduction, 

 P- 393)- 



7 This place has not been identified. Mr. 

 Chisenhale-Marsh suggested that it might be Stow 

 Maries, but, as it occurs above as ' Estolleia,' and 

 is found in the thirteenth century as ' Scolee ' or 

 ' Scoleghe ' (i.e. ' Stolee ' or ' Stoleghe '), its second 

 syllable is well established. In Devonshire the 

 ' Stolei ' of Domesday is now Stoodleigh. 



8 The name of the former holder is omitted in 

 the MS., which reads, moreover: 'quod tenent 

 semper ii villani.' 



9 The identity of this manor seems to be un- 

 certain. 



10 See p. 497, note 3, above. 



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