A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



In COLUN [Colne 1 ] Turbern holds 22 

 acres without (any) gift from the king and 

 renders no customary due. 



Henry de Ferrers (Ferreriis) has seized 

 (invasit) I free man 3 with (de) 1 6 acres in 

 STEPLA [Steeple]. And (it) is worth 2 shil- 

 lings. 



Wfilliam] Levric 3 has seized (invasit) in 

 SCIDDEHAM [ 3 ] i free man with 



(de) 6 acres. It is worth 1 2 pence. 



In BUMESTEDA [Bumpstead] Robert Blund' 4 

 has seized (invasit) 10 acres, which were 

 held by Edui, a free man. Then as now 

 (semper) I plough. It is worth 2O shillings. 



fo. I03b 



In MILDENTUNA [Middleton] R[obert] 

 Malet 6 has seized (invasit) 15 acres which 



were held by a free man in King Edward's 

 time. Then as now (semper] half a plough. 

 It is worth 5 shillings. 



Frodo brother of the abbot 10 has held up to 

 now (hucusque) 2 free men in STAUMTUNA u 

 [Stevington (End) **], whom Orgar' his pre- 

 decessor 13 seized (invasit), (and) who dwell 

 in the king's soke and have 20 acres. Then 

 as now (semper) half a plough (was there) ; 

 and it is worth 4 shillings. 



In CISHELLA [(Great) Chishall] Lewin' 

 held 5 acres ; and now Roger de Otburvilla u 

 holds them, because (idea quod) his predecessor 

 was seised thereof. 



In the Hundret of Rochefort [Rochford] 

 lie 15 acres of ANGRA [Ongar], which are 

 held by Berengar, a man of Earl Eustace. 

 (They were) then worth 1 5 pence ; now 20. 



SURVEY OF COLCHESTER 



fo. 104 



HUNDRET OF COLCHESTER [COLECESTRA] 



In the same COLCHESTER Godric, a free 

 man, 6 held, in King Edward's time, 4 manses 

 (mansiones terra)? and I church, and 4 hides 

 in Greenstead (Grenesteda). On his death 

 his sons divided the land into four parts, 8 of 

 which the king has two to (in) which be- 

 long 2 houses in the borough (burgo) which 

 have always rendered, and still render, cus- 

 tomary due to the king. 9 In (these) 2 hides 

 (there were) then, and (are) now, 2 ploughs 

 on the demesne ; then and now 3 villeins ; 

 then and now 2 serfs ; then and now 24 

 acres of meadow and marsh (maresc) ; then i 



1 This holding cannot be identified. 



* i.e. his land. 



8 See p. 557, notes 4, 5, above. 



* Robert Blund was a tenant-in-chief, whose 

 chief estate was in Suffolk. He, or a man of the 

 same name, held some land at Castle Hedingham 

 under Aubrey de Vere, but there is nothing to 

 explain his appearance here at Bumpstead. 



6 He held land at Goldmgham in the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



6 This must have been the Godric ' de Colae 

 castro' whose small estate ('25 acres') at (East) 

 Donyland had passed to Count Eustace (see p. 466 

 above). 



7 See Introduction, p. 416. 



8 ' Inquat dimiserunt partes.' As the ' inquat ' 

 is obviously corrupt, I have ventured to read 'dlmi- 

 serunt ' as an error for ' diriserunt.' 



9 The Latin leaves it doubtful whether the due 

 was paid from the houses or the 2 hides. 



mill ; (and) now a moiety ; then as (et) now 

 it was worth 40 shillings. And of the two 

 other parts Count Eustace has i hide, and 

 John son of Waleram the other hide. And 

 in the quarter of Count Eustace is the whole 

 (of the) church, and a fourth part of the 

 mill, and a fourth part of the meadow ; then 

 i plough (was there, and) now none ; and it 

 is worth in all 30 shillings. And in the 

 fourth part of John son of Waleram there was 

 i plough in King Edward's time ; now none ; 

 and (in it is) a fourth part of the mill, (with) 

 a fourth part of the meadow ; and it is worth 

 in all 30 shillings. And from these two 

 parts the king has no customary due. 



And the burgesses claim 5 hides of Lexden 

 (lex sendtna), which belonged to (jacuerunt ad) 

 the aforesaid land that Godric held, (as liable) 

 to the customary due and account of the 

 city. 16 



These are the king's burgesses who render 

 customary due. Coleman has i house in 

 Colchester (de colecestra), and holds 5 acres of 

 land, and renders to the king now as then 



10 Of St. Edmund's. 



11 A scribal misreading of ' Stavintuna.' 



12 In Ashdon, the next parish to Radwinter, in 

 which was Frodo's manor. 



13 In his manor at Radwinter (p. 556). 



14 See p. 496 above. 



15 ' Cootum civitatis.' Here again I venture to 

 emend to 'compotum civitatis.' See the Intro- 

 duction (p. 4 1 6) for the meaning of the above entry. 



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