THE VILL AND THE MANOR 47 



cases where a manor comprised many vills : the Abbey of 

 St. Denys of Paris held seven vills in Deerhurst hundred, 

 in Gloucestershire, but all seven vills formed one manor; 1 

 the manor of Leominster contained sixteen members, which 

 are all named, and the whole was assessed at 80 hides, and in 

 1066 employed thirty teams in demesne, and 230 belonging 

 to the tenants ; 2 Robert of Rhuddlan held " the moiety of all 

 the forests which do not pertain to any vill in this manor " of 

 Rhuddlan, 3 a record which conclusively shows that the manor 

 of Rhuddlan included more vills than one. Sometimes ex- 

 ternal evidence must be procured to show whether the Domes- 

 day manor contained more than one vill. Thus the valuation 

 of Pagham (Sussex) begins, " The Archbishop himself holds 

 Pagham in demesne. It defended itself T. R. E. for 50 hides. 

 . . . There is land for 30 teams. In demesne are seven, and 

 74 villans with 78 bordars have 23 teams." 4 But there is a 

 charter of 680 5 giving the boundaries and enumerating the 

 " territories pertaining to Pagham " Shripney, Charlton, Bog- 

 nor, Bersted, North Bersted, Crimsham, and Mundham. All of 

 these vills but Charlton can easily be found on the Ordnance 

 Map within the boundaries set forth in the charter, and, with 

 the exception of Charlton, they form the present hundred of 

 Aldwick. But Domesday Book mentions none of these places, 

 which must, therefore, have been included within the Arch- 

 bishop's manor, which was coterminous with the hundred 

 of Pagham. A well-known example of the inclusion of a 

 large territory in one manor is the Bishop of Winchester's 

 manor of Farnham, which Professor Maitland thinks included 

 the whole of the present hundred of Farnham say 25,000 

 acres. 6 Vills so included in and paying rent to a manor 

 were said to " lie in " that manor. 



There are a number of instances where a vill was divided 

 into a number of manors. Stepney would appear to be a case 



1 D. B., I. 166 a 2. 2 /</., 180 a i. 3 /</., 269 a I. 



4 /</., 1 6 b 2. 3 Birch, 50. 8 D. B. and B., 13. 



