THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



(him). Then i plough (was there) ; now a 

 half; it was then worth 16 shillings; now 

 12. 



HUNDRET OF ANGRA [ONGAR] 



PLUMTUNA [ *], which Ulvric the 



priest held of Harold freely (libere) as 14 acres, 

 is held of Ranulf by Ravenot.* And R[anulf] 

 has (it) now because his predecessor was seised 

 (thereof) ; but it did not belong to him 

 according to the county (court)'s testimony 

 (sicut comitatus testatur). Then as now (sem- 

 per) i villein and half a plough. There is 

 wood(land) for 2O swine, (and) i^ acres of 

 meadow. It is worth 5 shillings. 



HUNDRET OF CELMERESFORT [CHELMSFORD] 



SPRINGAFELDA [Springfield 8 ], which was 

 held by Alestan' as a manor and as 5 hides 

 and 2O acres, is held of R[anulf] by Robert. 

 Then 6 villeins ; now 4. Then 3 bordars ; 

 now 10. Then 8 (serfs 4 ) ; now 6. Then 

 as now (semper) 3 ploughs on the demesne. 

 Then and afterwards 3 ploughs belonging to 

 the men ; now 2. (There is) wood(land) for 

 30 swine, 25 acres of meadow, (and) now as 

 then (semper) i mill. Then 2 rounceys (run- 

 cint) t 12 beasts (animaliai), 100 sheep, (and) 

 50 swine ; now 4 rounceys, 5 colts (pulli), 

 26 beasts, 40 sheep, 25 swine, 12 goats, 2 

 asses, (and) I hive of bees. It was then worth 



5 pounds ; now 6. And two free men held 

 13 acres, which R[anulf] now has; this is 

 worth 2 shillings. 



RADENDUNA [Rettendon 8 ], which was held 

 by Si ward* as a manor and as I hide and 30 

 acres, is held (of Ranulf) by Ralf son of Brien. 

 Then as now (semper) i bordar, and I plough 

 on the demesne. (There is) wood(land) for 



6 swine. It is worth now as then (semper) 25 

 shillings, and is claimed by the abbey of Ely. 



HALF HUNDRET OF MELDUNA [MALDON] 



In MELDUNA [Maldon] R[anulf] holds in 

 demesne half a hide and 24 acres which was 

 held by Si ward 6 as a manor in King Edward's 



1 Morant asserted that Domesday Book placed 

 this small holding 'under Stondon ' (i. 189) ; but 

 this it will be seen is an error. There is nothing 

 to show where the place was, and it is too small to 

 be identified. * See p. 528. 



8 The manor of Springfield Hall. 



* ' borfdarii] ' in MS. an obvious error. 



8 The identity of this estate has not been ascer- 

 tained. It may have been recovered by the abbey 

 of Ely, of which the whole of Rettendon seems to 

 have been subsequently held. 



6 See Introduction, p. 346. 



time. Then i bordar ; now 3. It is worth 

 5 shillings. This land is valued as part of 

 (in) the 12 pounds from Maldon (de meldunu 7 ). 



HUNDRET OF TENDRINGA 



TENDRINGA [Tendring 8 ], which was held 

 by Olui' freely (libere) as a manor and as half 

 a hide and 30 acres, is held by R[anulf] in 

 demesne. And R[anulf] has it by (in) ex- 

 change. Then 2 serfs; now I. Then 2 

 ploughs ; afterwards and now i . (There is) 



fo. 7Sb 



wood(land) for 30 swine, (and) 2 acres of 

 meadow. Then and afterwards it was worth 

 2O shillings ; now 60. 



CICE [St. Osyth 9 ], which was held by 

 Siward 6 as a manor and as 2j hides, is held of 

 R[anulf] by Turold. Then and afterwards 

 9 villeins ; now 6. Then and afterwards 12 

 bordars ; now 1 1 . Then as now (temper) 7 

 serfs. Then and afterwards 4 ploughs on the 

 demesne ; now 3. Then and afterwards 7 

 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 5. 

 (There is) wood(land) for 800 swine, 10 4 acres 

 of meadow, pasture for 200 sheep, (and) now 

 as then (semper) i mill. Then 6 rounceys 



7 See p. 518 above. 



8 The identity of this manor is doubtful. 



' The manors in the great parish of St. Osyth 

 arc by no means easy to disentangle. But this one 

 seems to be that which is now St. Clere's Hall. 

 This conclusion is based on the following reason- 

 ing. Maurice ' de Chiche ' (who is shown by the 

 Colchester Cartulary, pp. 229-31, to have been 

 father of Richard and grandfather of Gilbert) occurs 

 in 1141 as holding 5 fees (see my Geoffrey de 

 Mandeville, p. 142), which were apparently part of 

 the Honour of Peverel of London. Roger 

 Ridel,' under John, held 5 fees of that Honour, 

 and a tenant of the same name held of it, rather 

 later, 5 fees ' in Chikene et Scirefeud ' (Red Book 

 of the Exchequer, p. 740). As it is known that a 

 manor in St. Osyth was named ' Chich-Ridel, and 

 as Roger son of Geoffrey Ridel gave land at Chiche 

 to St. John's Abbey (Colchester Cartulary, pp. 247-8, 

 651),! suspect that this ' Chikene ' was really Chich- 

 Ridcl, and not (as the editor makes it) Chickney, 

 with which the Ridels had nothing to do. If so, 

 Chich-Ridel was Peverel's portion of St. Osyth ; 

 and as Chich-Ridel, according to Morant, is styled 

 'alias St. Clere's Hall ' in the time of Henry VIII., 

 the above identity follows. 



10 Such extensive woodland as this is most ab- 

 normal on the coast in the Essex of 1086, and is 

 made still more so by the fact that, in addition, 

 Count Eustace's manor in St. Osyth is credited 

 with woodland for 400 swine. But there was 

 much woodland in Osyth down to recent times. 



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