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Here, again, we have a case of a tenement being called a 

 manor, and yet containing no recorded demesne, although it 

 might be argued that the dominical and tenants' teams are 

 added together, and that only the total is given. 



(4) In Essex there are a few minute properties which are 

 styled " manors," and yet contain no recorded demesne, and 

 no recorded inhabitant except the owner. 



" Alward Dore held Nazenden, T. R. E., for a manor and for 40 

 acres : then half a team, now none. 



" Ulwin Hopra held Bertune for a manor and half a hide ; then 

 one team, now half a team. " l 



(5) There are also a few estates called " manors " containing 

 villans but no demesne ; e.g. Willesden. 2 



So that the distinction between the post- Conquest tene- 

 ments that were or were not styled "manors" did not lie in 

 their constitution. 



And on looking further into their descriptions, we find only 

 two features that they had in common every post-Concjuest 

 manor was the tenement of a single lord, and had a separate 

 value attached to it. 



The fact that every manor had a separate value attached to 

 it shows that, for the purposes of administration, it was treated 

 as an independent unit under a separate bailiff ; the proceeds 

 arising from each manor would be aggregated into one total, 

 and we shall have occasion to refer to the accounts of the 

 bailiffs of various manors in the thirteenth century. 



Hence we understand why the term " manor " was applied 

 to estates occupied only by sokemen and bordars ; their dues, 

 whatever they were, were accounted for separately from the 

 dues arising from other estates of the same landlord. Hence, 

 too, we understand why the term " manor " was applied to the 

 small estates of Essex : they formed agricultural entities of 

 themselves, and owed service to no one. This suggestion will 



1 D. B., II. 94. 2 id., 1. 127 b 2. 



