158 THE DOMESDAY INQUEST 



manors as contained in Domesday Book and in the Liber 



Niger. 



Domesday Book, I. 221,3. I. 



The said Church holds 6 hides 



in Pillesgete. 



There is land for 6 teams. 

 In demesne is one with one slave. 



And 9 villans 



and 2 bordars 

 and 26 sokemen 



have ii teams. 



There is a mill of IQS. 

 and 40 acres of meadow and 5 

 acres of wood. 



Liber Niger> Chronicon Petroborgense, 

 p. 158. 



In Pilesgete are 3 hides to the 

 King's geld. 



In the demesne of the Court is 

 one plough of 8 oxen, and i 

 boar and 2 calves, and i ram 

 and 2 foals, and 9 score sheep, 

 and 20 pigs. 



And 8 villans hold i hide and 

 i virgate. And they have 2 

 teams whence they plough for 

 the lord's need, 8 acres of 

 winter ploughing, and 8 acres 

 of spring ploughing (tremeis), 

 and work three days in the 

 week. 



And there is one bordar and 2 

 oxherds (bovarii), holding land 

 by service, and one shepherd. 



And 44 sokemen. 



And all these with the villans 

 aforesaid render 44.$-. per 

 annum. 



And all these sokemen have 8 

 teams and thence plough three 

 times in the year ; and each of 

 them mows in August half an 

 acre of the Lord's corn, and 

 twice in August performs a 

 boon-work, and each harrows 

 one day in spring. 



And one mill which renders ^. 



