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make up half the hundred of East Flegg. It was thus on a very different 

 footing from the two boroughs just described. 



Of Lynn we have only one or two casual mentions. It should no doubt 

 have been described with Stigand's escheat, but has somehow come to be left 

 out, a fact which will help us to estimate the carelessness with which Little 

 Domesday was compiled. It was probably a ' simple borough,' and 

 dependent only upon its lord.* It must also have been the chief town of 

 Freebridge hundred and a half. 



We may gather up a few incidental scraps of knowledge before quitting 

 the Domesday Survey. Thus the word aula^ generally used for the principal 

 farmstead,** is once used to imply a manor court. Roger de Ramis had 

 24 acres in ' Plestuna,' ' sed fuerunt in aula Sancti Eadmundi.' ' We seem 

 to hear of livery of seisin being made by the handing over of a bit, since 

 the reeve of Saham sold a piece of land 'per unum frenum.'* There are a 

 few indications of the employment of some of the under-tenants. Roger 

 Bigod had a chamberlain, Herbert," and a cook, Warin.' The abbot of 

 St. Edmund's had a steward (dapifer)? We find Geoffrey the archdeacon at 

 Norton on the Hill,' and Walter the deacon at Stratton.' Two goldsmiths 

 are mentioned. Nicholas, Earl Hugh's goldsmith, had land at Raveningham," 

 and Rainbald, a goldsmith, at Herringby." Robert Blund's office is described 

 as misterium ; he was the steward or farmer of the king's lands.'' Tohli " and 

 Waleran " and R. (possibly Robert Blund) '^ are named as sheriffs, and a 

 considerable number of reeves are mentioned. '° There was a sub-reeve at 

 Earsham'^ and a 'serviens regis' at Barney.'* The earl's oven [pistritium) " in 

 the French borough at Norwich should not be overlooked. The ' herigete ' 

 mentioned as a royal due at Yarmouth appears to be mentioned nowhere 

 else. We may add to the historical facts already alluded to, the battle of 

 Hastings^" and the exile of Tosti," and then turn away from the rich field 

 of the Norfolk Survey with the feeling that its riches are still but half 

 explored. 



' Ballard, Domesday Boroughs, 94-103. 



' Dom. Bk. fF. 246, 257^, 269. At Barsham there were two Halle (f. l683). 



' Ibid. f. 263. * Ibid. f. I lob. ' Ibid. f. 278. 



^ Ibid. f. 156. ' Ibid. f. 275^. " Ibid. f. 192^. 



' Ibid. f. 193. '» Ibid. f. 279. " Ibid. f. 273. 



'* Ibid. f. iio3. Robert, who is surnamed ' Blundus ' as a tenant-in-chief in SufFolk, 'Albus' in 

 1 Northants, and ' Flavus ' in Wilts, was probably also the Robert ' Blancard ' or ' Blancar ' of the Norfolk Survey 

 '(fF. 140^, 2433) (J. H. R.). 



" Ibid. fF. 140, 211*, 264. " Ibid. 117^. 



'* Ibid. f. 179. Mr. Round points out that Robert Blund is distinctly spoken of as sheriff — but a past 

 sherifF — of the county : 'quamdiu Rodbertus Blundus comitatum tenuit, habuit inde unoquoque anno i unciam 

 auri ' (f. 118). He is disposed to think that the ' R. vicecomes' who occurs on f. 179 as sherifF at the 

 time of Domesday was Roger Bigot himself. See p. 19 above. 



'" Ibid. fF. 110, 146, 186, 198, 198^, 199, 217^, 229^, 2693, 272, 275^, 277^. 



"Ibid. f. 186. 'Mbid. f. 258. 



" This was a feature of foreign feudalism (J. H. R.). 



'■"' Ibid. f. 275^ : ' bellum Hastinges.' It is amusing to note that in one entry the Domesday scribe thus 

 blurts out the truth — ' Postquam W. rex conquisivit Angliam ' (f. 1241^), though a few lines further down 

 he remembers to use the guarded phrase, ' Postquam rex W. venit in Anglicam terram,' a formula which 

 thenceforth recurs with trifling variations, 'venit in hanc patriam,' and so forth (fF 140, 173, 199, 212^, 

 232, 269), though on f. 190 it is cut down curtly to ' Postquam Willelmus venit' (J. H. R.). 



" Ibid. f. 200^. 



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