1 90 THE DOMESDAY INQUEST 



But, like Waltham Abbey, some churches lost their lands 

 after the Conquest. T. R. E. half a hide at Benfleet had been 

 given to a church in another manor, but after Benfleet came 

 into the hands of King William, this hide was taken away from 

 the church, and in 1086 it again belonged to Benfleet ; 1 and 

 Swegen, after he ceased to be sheriff, took away from the 

 church at Hatfield Broad Oak I hide and 30 acres which had 

 previously belonged to it. 2 



Compared with the number of notices of glebe belonging 

 to village churches, the notices of tithes so belonging are few. 

 The case of Stoneham, already referred to, shows that here 

 we have a case of a village church receiving all the tithes of 

 a vill. A similar case is found at Carlton (Lines.), where the 

 wapentake testified that the tithe and other dues of Carlton 

 lay in the church of the same vill. 3 The tithe of the manor 

 is mentioned at Wallop (Hants.) 



" There is a church to which pertains one hide and the moiety of 

 the tithe of the manor and all the Church-shot, and 46^. of the tithe 

 of the villans and a moiety of the acres. There is also a little church 

 to which pertain eight acres of the tithes." 4 



The distinction between the tithe of the manor and the 

 tithe of the villans would appear to indicate that the tithe of 

 the demesne is meant by the former term ; and the statement 

 that 8 acres of the tithe belonged to the little church will 

 cause no difficulty to those who remember that the tithe was 

 paid in kind, and that one out of every ten scattered acre 

 strips belonging to a single owner would be set apart for the 

 tithe, in which case the little church would take eight of such 

 reserved strips. 5 



Many of the passages relating to tithes refer to those 

 which had passed into the possession of some monastery 



1 D. B., II. i. 2 Id., II. 2 b. 3 Id., I. 377 a 2. 



4 Id., I. 38 b i. 5 Id., I. 44 a 2. 



