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it was transferred to Barrington hundred, by the judgment 

 of the men of that hundred. 1 Ralph Taillebois placed 

 Bishopescote, an estate of 5 hides, in the King's manor of 

 Luton, "and sent it out of the hundred where it defended 

 itself T. R. E. ; " but, on the other hand, he took 5 hides from 

 another hundred and placed them in Fletham hundred. 2 



Sometimes it is found that a vill or a manor lay in two or 

 more hundreds. The King held 27 J hides at Tingdene. " The 

 land of this manor lay thus : in Hecham hundred 10^ hides, 

 in Hocheslau hundred ij, in Geritone hundred I hide, in Rod- 

 well hundred f hide, in Ordinbaro hundred 4! hides, and in 

 Neuesland hundred 9 hides." 3 In East Sussex, especially in 

 the district between Lewes and Eastbourne, there were many 

 manors of which different parts lay in different hundreds. 

 Willingdon was divided into nine parts ; of these two lay in 

 Willingdon hundred, one in Pevensey, two in Hawksborough, 

 two in Shoeswell, and two in Henhert hundred ; but the six 

 parts in the three last-mentioned hundreds did not pay geld. 

 Similarly, Laughton lay in four hundreds Edivestone, Tot- 

 nore, Hawksborough, and Shoeswell ; and Alciston lay in three 

 hundreds Wandelmestrei, Shoeswell, and Henhert. But it is 

 probable that those portions which lay in the three hundreds 

 of Hawksborough, Shoeswell, and Henhert were outlying 

 portions of these manors situate in the Weald. These three 

 hundreds did not pay geld, and belonged to the Count of Eu, 

 while Wandelmestrei belonged to Battle Abbey, and the 

 other hundreds which have been named to the Count of 

 Mortain. 



Since the time of Domesday Book the hundreds in many 

 counties have been rearranged. 4 In 1086 there were eighteen 

 hundreds in Buckinghamshire, but now there are only six, each 

 1 D. B., I. 165 b. 2. 2 Id., I. 219 b 2. 



3 7rf., I. 220 a i. 



4 For this reason one should be chary of attributing error to the Domesday 

 scribe when he says that a certain vill lay in a certain hundred, merely because at 

 some later date it lay in another hundred. 



