HOLDERS OF LANDS 



And the church of Saints Simon and Jude 

 Almar the bishop held T.R.E. afterwards Erfast, 

 now William. To this belong {adjacent) three 

 parts of a mill and half an acre of meadow and 

 I messuage, and it is not of the bishopric, but 

 of the patrimony of Almar the bishop. In the 

 borough he (William) has 2 acres of meadow 

 belonging to the bishopric, and they are worth 

 20 shillings. Ewicman held T.R.E. i-| plough- 

 lands and 1 6 acres of pasture and 7 acres of 

 meadow under Stigand ; now Rainald son of 

 Ivo (holds it). Then and afterwards I plough ; 

 now 2. Then as now it was worth 30 shillings. 

 Of the burgesses who dwelt in the borough of 

 Norwich 22 have gone away and dwell in 

 Becdes, a vill of the abbot of St. Edmund's, 

 and 6 in Humilgar hundret [Humbleyard], and 

 have quitted [dhniserunt) the borough, and in the 

 king's (manor of) Torp [Thorpe] I, and on the 

 land of Roger Bigot i , and under W. de Noie[r]s i , 

 and Richard de Sentcler i. Those fleeing and 

 the others remaining have been entirely ruined 

 (vasiati) partly by reason of the forfeitures of 

 Earl Ralf, partly by reason of a fire, partly 

 by reason of the king's geld, partly by Waleram. 



In this borough the bishop can have I moneyer 

 if he wishes. In the borough was a certain ruined 

 house [vasta domus) ; this Ranulf son of Walter 

 received of the king's gift. And Walter the 

 deacon has I house in the borough, but it was 

 not (there) T.R.E., and 2 men of Ralf the 

 earl took away 2 acres of meadow from St. 

 Sepulchre ; afterwards the priest had it again by 

 grant of the sheriff. Ralf the earl held 14 acres 

 of land and i i acres of meadow ; afterwards 

 Alward of Niwetuna [Newton] held (them). 



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Land of the Burgesses 



In the Hundret of Humiliat [Humbleyard] 

 then as now (there were) 80 acres and 14 bordars 

 and I plough and 3 acres of meadow : and they 

 are worth 13 shillings and 4 pence. 



Frenchmen [Franci) of Norwic [Norwich] 



In the new borough (are) 36 burgesses and 

 6 Englishmen [anglici), and each one used 

 to pay of annual custom i penny besides 

 forfeitures. Of all this the king used to 

 have two parts and the earl the third. Now 

 (there are) 41 French [Franci) burgesses on the 

 demesne of the king and the earl, and Roger 

 Bigot has 50 and Ralf de Bellafago 14, and 

 Hermer 8 and Robert the crossbowman 5, and 

 Fulcher the abbot's man i, and Isac i and Ralf 

 Visus Lupi ' I : and in the earl's bakehouse 

 (pistrino) Robert Blund has 3, and Wimer I mes- 

 suage (which is) waste. All this land of the 

 burgesses was in the demesne of Earl Ralf, and 



1 Sir H. EUis read Fiso Lupi. 



he granted it to the king in common to make 

 the borough between himself and the king, as 

 the sheriff testifies. And all those lands as well 

 of the knights as of the burgesses pay the king 

 his custom. There is also in the new borough 

 a certain church which Ralf the earl built {J'eat) 

 and gave it to his chaplains. Now a certain 

 priest of the sheriff's, Wala by name, holds it of 

 the king's gift, and it is worth 60 shillings ; and 

 as long as Robert Blund held the county he had 

 therefrom i ounce of gold every year. 



Est Hundret of Flec [East Flegg] 



Gernemwa [Yarmouth, (Great)] was held by 

 King Edward. Then as now 70 burgesses. 

 Then it was worth, with 2 parts of the soke of 

 3 hundrets, 18 pounds by talc, and the earl's part 

 was 9 pounds by tale. Now the king's 2 parts 

 are worth 17 pounds and 16 shillings and 4 pence 



f. ii8b. 



blanch, and the earl's part 10 pounds blanch. 

 And the sheriff has 4 pounds and i hawk of the 

 land [acciptrem terref for a fine {de gersumma) : 

 these 4 pounds the burgesses give freely {gratis) 

 and of goodwill {de amicitia). In the same (town) 

 T.R.E. Ailmar the bishop had a certain church 

 of St. Benet ; now W[illiam] the bishop has 

 the same (church) as of his bishopric, and it is 

 worth 20 shillings. The whole pays 12 pence 

 for geld. 



Hundret of Tetford [Thetford] 



In Tetford [Thetford] is the church of 

 St. Mary, which Stigand the archbishop held. 

 Now the sons of Arfast the bishop (hold it). 

 To this church belong now as then 4 churches, 

 St. Peter's, St. John's, St. Martin's, St. Margaret's, 

 and 6 ploughlands, less half a bovate. Then 

 (there were) 2 ploughs, now I. Then as now 

 5 burgesses and 2 vacant messuages and 12 acres 

 of meadow. And 3 ploughs could be restored, 

 and 2 plough(lands) remain in pasture {in pasture). 

 Then as now 35 sheep, and it is worth 40 

 shillings. 



Of the king's land in Tetford [Thetford], on 

 the Norfolk side of the river {ultra aquam versus 

 Norfolc) is I league {leugata) of land in length and 

 half (a league) in breadth, of which the king has 



2 parts, a third part belongs to the earldom {in con- 

 sulatu). Of the above league {superiori leugata) 

 R[oger] Bigot (has) the third part. All this land 

 is as to a moiety arable ; the other (moiety is) in 

 pasture. On this land the king has I plough and 



3 bordars and i serf and I horse. And of 2 mills 

 the king has 2 parts and the earl {consul) the third. 

 The king has also 2 parts of the third mill, and 

 of these 2 parts the earl has a third. On the 



^ i.e., An English as distinguished from a Norway 

 or Irish hawk. See Diahgus de Scaccario ii, p. xxv. 



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