THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



INGA [Frierning ? ! ] was held by Eduin' 

 Grut as a manor and as i hide and 33 acres. 

 It is now held of Robert by Ilger. Then as 

 now (temper) I bordar, and I plough. (There 

 is) wood(land) for 40 swine and 2 acres of 

 meadow. It is worth 20 shillings. Rfobert] 

 had this land as part of that which he ob- 

 tained by exchange (habuit R. in suo tscangio). 



CINGUEHELLA [Chicluial (Zoyn) *], which 

 was held by Doth as a manor and as 2 hides, 

 is held of R[obert] by Anschetil. Then as 

 now (semper) i villein, and 2 bordars, and 2 

 ploughs on the demesne, and i plough belong- 

 ing to the men. (There is) wood(land) for 

 30 swine, (and) 20 acres of meadow. Then 

 as now (semper) I rouncey, and 6 beasts (ani- 

 malia), and 1 2 sheep, and 1 4 swine. It was 

 then worth 40 shillings ; now 4 pounds. 



SPRINGINGHEFELDA [Springfield 3 ], which 

 was held by Godric as a manor and as 2 hides 

 and 40 acres, is held of R[obert] by Corp. 

 Then as now (semper) 4 villeins, and 7 bor- 

 dars, and 2 ploughs on the demesne, and I 

 plough belonging to the men. (There is) 

 wood(land) for 30 swine, 2O acres of meadow, 

 (and) i fishery. Then i rouncey (runcinus) ; 

 now I O. Then 5 beasts (animalia) ; now 30. 

 Then 4 sheep ; now i OO. Then 1 3 swine ; 

 now 40. It was then worth 40 shillings ; 

 now 60. 



INGA [Frierning ? *], which was held by 



1 See p. $18, note 1 1, above. 



* A manor in Chicknal St. James. Although it 

 is here entered in the midst of Chelmsford Hun- 

 dred manors, Morant identified it as being in 

 Chigwell (in Ongar Hundred), with which Robert 

 Gernon had nothing to do. Its true identity is 

 revealed by the Inq. p. m. on Philip Burnel (Dec. 

 20, 1294), cited by Morant himself (ii. 80), where 

 it is found among the Gernon manors which the 

 Bumel family had acquired, as held of Philip by 

 Margery de Moese. In 1303 this Margery is re- 

 turned as holding i fees in Chicknal ' Tany ' and 

 fee in Chicknal ' Seyn,' which were both in 

 Chicknal St. James (Feudal Aidt, ii. 133). Morant 

 no doubt jumped at the conclusion that 'Cingue- 

 hella ' was more like the ' Cinghewella ' (Chigwell) 

 of Domesday than it was to its ' Cingehala ' 

 (Chicknal). Compare p. 387 above. 



* This is identified by Morant as the manor of 

 Springfield Barnes, the history of which, as given 

 by himself (ii. 8), is inconsistent with that identifi- 

 cation. It was probably represented by the half 

 fee held, at his death in 1 360, by Richard de Plaiz, 

 one of the co-heirs of the Gernon estates. From 

 the Plaiz family, probably, it passed to the De 

 Veres, Earls of Oxford. 



* See note i above. 



Selva and Topi as a manor and as 2i hides 

 and 31 acres, is held of Rfobert] by William. 

 And Robert has it by exchange (in escangio). 

 Then as now (semper) i villein, and 14 bor- 

 dars; and 1 1 ploughs on the demesne, and i| 

 ploughs belonging to the men. (There is) 

 wood(land) for 100 swine, (and) 4 acres of 

 meadow. Then 10 beasts (animalia) ; now 

 the same. Then I rouncey (runcinus) ; now 

 5. Then as now (semper) 2O sheep. Then 

 30 swine ; now 16. (There are) now 2 hives 

 of bees. It is worth now as then 4 pounds. 

 And 30 acres were held by Borda, and 

 Rfobert] (holds them) now ; then as now 

 (semper) half a plough (was there) ; and (there 

 are) 2^ acres of meadow ; it is worth 10 

 shillings. 



PACING.* 8 [Patching (Hall Picot) ], which 

 was held by Borda as a manor and as 2$ 

 hides in King Edward's time, is held (of 

 Robert) by Picot. Then I villein ; now 

 none. (There are) now 6 bordars. Then 4 

 bordars ; now none. Then 2 ploughs on the 

 demesne ; now I . Then as now (semper) 

 half a plough belonging to the men. (There 

 is) wood(land) for 50 swine, (and) 10 acres of 

 meadow. Then 4 beasts (animalia), and 2O 

 swine, and 20 sheep ; now (there is) nothing. 

 Then as now (semper) it was .worth 40 shil- 

 lings. R[obert] has this land in exchange 

 (in escangit). 



Of the fee of RICHEHAM 7 [Culverts *], 

 Asso holds of R[obert] what was held by 

 Goduin* as a manor and as i hides. 



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Then I villein and I serf; now 2 bordars. 

 Then as now (semper) i^ ploughs on the de- 

 mesne. And (there are) 10 acres of meadow. 

 Then as now (semper) i mill. It is worth 

 now as then (semper) 30 shillings. 



This form points to an English ' Patchings.' 



8 A manor in Broomfield. This is another of 

 the Gernon estates which passed eventually to the 

 Burnel family. 



* De feudo Richeham.' 



8 A manor (now a farm) in Boreham, which 

 derived its name from the Coleworth family in the 

 thirteenth century. Richard de Coleworth is 

 named in a charter of William de ' Rykham ' 

 (obviously the ' Richeham ' of Domesday), ' who 

 seems to have been lord of this and other estates 

 in and about this parish ' (Morant, ii. 1 2). Never- 

 theless Morant himself (ii. 25) identified the 

 manor in the text as ' Rifehams ' in Danbury, 

 which had nothing to do with Robert or his suc- 

 cessors. ' Culverts ' was among those manors of 

 his which were afterwards held by the Burnels. 



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