A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



Moreover from each house (are paid) yearly 

 6 pence, which can be devoted (reddere potest) 

 to the support (victum) of the king's soldiers 

 (solidariorum) or to war service (expetitionem) 

 by land or sea ; and this does not belong (est) 

 to the (king's) ferm. 1 And let this be so (sit) 

 whether the king has soldiers (soldarios) or calls 

 for war service (expetitionem fecerit). 3 And 

 in addition to (propt\er] 3 ) these (payments 

 of) 6 pence the whole city (civitas) used to 

 render from all dues (debitis) in King Edward's 

 time, 1 5 pounds and 5 shillings and 3 pence 

 each year, of which the moneyers used to 

 render 4 pounds in King Edward's time. It 

 now renders 80 (' iiii xx ') pounds and 4 

 ststiers (sextarios) of honey or 40 shillings 4 ; 4 

 and, besides this, 100 shillings to the sheriff 

 for fine (dt gersuma) ; 6 and 10 shillings and 



fo. I07b 



8 pence for feeding (pascendos) the preben- 

 daries. And besides this the burgesses of 

 Colchester and of Maldon (meldona) render 



1 See p. 577, note 15, above. 



* For this difficult passage see the Introduction. 

 3 I read this as an error foe prater. 



* 'xl. sol. iiii.' The text is evidently corrupt. 

 6 Gersuma was an offering of some kind, usually 



consideration money paid for a lease. 



2O pounds for the mint (moneta) ; and 

 Waleram arranged (const ituit) this ; and they 

 vouch (advocant) the king to warranty (ad 

 turtorem} that he remitted to them 10 

 pounds, and (the holder ?) Bishop Walchelin 8 

 demands (querit) from them 40 pounds. 



In Colchester is a certain church of St. 

 Peter, which was held, in King Edward's 

 time, by 2 priests in almoine of the king 

 (in elemaiina [sic] regis), (and) to which be- 

 long (adjacent) 2 hides of land, on (in) which 

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

 were) then 3 bordars, (and) now 4 ; then 3 

 serfs, (and) now 2 ; then and now 12 acres 

 of meadow ; then and now i mill ; then and 

 now 2 houses in the borough (burgo). Then 

 the whole was worth 30 shillings ; now 

 48 shillings. Of this endowment (elemosina) 

 Robert son of Ralf de Hatinges 7 claims 

 (reclamat) three quarters, and Eudo ' dapifer ' 

 holds the fourth ; 8 and in King Edward's 

 time they rendered (reddebant) customary 

 due ; and now it does not (non reddit), 



6 The word ten' precedes Walchelin', but here 

 again the text is corrupt. 



7 Clearly an error for ' Hastinges.' The MS. 

 has ' dehatingis.' 



8 See p. 576, note 14, above. 



578 



