THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 



Uctred held Leiate [Lydiate]. There (are) 

 6 bovates of land. Wood(land) i league long 

 and 2 furlongs broad. It was worth 64 pence. 



Two thegns held 6 bovates of land as 2 

 manors in Holand [Downholland]. It was 

 worth 2 shillings. 



Uctred held Acrer [Altcar]. There (is) half 

 a carucate of land. It was waste. 



Teos held Bartune [Barton]. There (is) 



1 carucate of land. It was worth 32 pence. 



Chetel held Heleshale [Halsall]. There 

 (are) 2 carucates of land. It was worth 8 

 shillings. 



All this land used to pay geld [geldabat), and 

 15 manors 1 used to render nothing to King 

 Edward save geld. 



This manor of Derbei [West Derby] with 

 these aforesaid hides used to render to King 

 Edward 26 pounds and 2 shillings of farm {de 

 jirmd). Of these 3 hides were free, the rent 

 [censum) of which he pardoned to the thegns who 

 held them. These used to render 4 pounds and 

 14 shillings and 8 pence. 



All these thegns had by custom to render 



2 ores of pence for each carucate of land, and by 

 custom used to make the king's houses and (the 

 things) which appertained thereto [ibi pertinebant') 

 as the villeins (did), and the fisheries {piscarias) 

 and the enclosures {haias) in the wood, and the 

 deer hays [stabtlituras) ; and (he) who went not 

 to these (tasks) when he ought paid a fine of 

 {emmdabat) 2 shillings and afterwards came to 

 the work and laboured until it was completed. 



Each one of them sent his reapers one day in 

 August to cut the king's crops. If not he paid 

 a fine of 2 shillings. 



If any free man committed theft, or ' forsteal ' 

 fjbrestel), or ' hdmfare ' {heinfara), or broke the 

 king's peace, he paid a fine of 40 shillings. 



If any committed bloodshed [faciebat san- 

 guinem), or rape {raptum de femina), or if he 

 {qui) remained away from the ' shiremote ' 

 {siremot) without reasonable excuse, he paid a 

 fine of I o shillings. If he remained away from 

 the hundred (court) or went not to a plea when 

 the reeve {prepositus) ordered, he paid a fine of 

 5 shillings. 



If (the reeve) ordered anyone {cut) to go upon 

 his service and he went not-, he paid a fine of 

 4 shillings. 



If anyone wished to withdraw from the king's 

 land, he gave 40 shillings and went whither he 

 wished. 



If anyone wished to have the land of his 

 deceased father, he paid a relief {relevabat) of 40 

 shillings ; (he) who would not, the king had 



1 Those enumerated in the ten preceding para- 

 graphs, commencing with Erengermeles. 



both the land and all the goods {pecuniam) of the 

 deceased father. 



Uctred held Crosebi [Little Crosby] and 

 Chirchedele [Kirkdale] as one hide, and it was 

 quit from every due except these 6 : breach of the 

 peace {pace infracta), forsteal, ' hdmfare,' and a 

 fray {pugna) which continued after oath made 

 (to desist), and if (when) bound by the reeve's 

 judgment {constrictus justkia prepositi) he did (not) 

 pay anyone a debt, and if he did not observe the 

 term given by the reeve ; (for) these (offences) 

 he paid a fine of 40 shillings. But he paid the 

 king's geld {geldum) like {sicut) the men of the 

 country. 



In Otringemele [North Meols], and Herle- 

 SHALA [Halsall], and Hiretun [Hurleton] there 

 were 3 hides quit from the geld {geldum) of 

 carucates of land and from the forfeiture of 

 bloodshed {sanguinis) and ravishment {violentia) 

 of a woman. But they rendered all other dues. 



These men now hold land of this manor of 

 Derbei [West Derby] by the gift of Roger the 

 Poitevin : — Geoffrey* 2 hides and half a carucate 

 of land, Roger ^ i^ hide, William* \\ hide, 

 Warin ^ half a hide, Geoffrey * i hide, Tetbald 

 I J hide, Robert 2 carucates of land, Gilbert 



1 carucate of land.^ 



These have in demesne 4 ploughs and 

 46 villeins, and I radman and 62 bordars, and 



2 serfs and 3 bondwomen. Between {inter) (them) 

 all they have 24 ploughs. 



Their wood(land is) 3|- leagues long and 

 \^ league and 40 perches broad,^ and there 

 (are) 3 eyries of hawks. 



2 Perhaps Roger of Poitou's sheriff, and predecessor 

 of Godfrey who was sheriff in 1094. The fee 

 might consist of I hide in Walton, 4 car. in Garston, 

 2 car. elsewhere, and ^ car. belonging to the church 

 of Walton. 



8 Possibly I hide in Sefton, 2 car. in Toxteth, and 

 I car. in Thornton. He was probably Roger de 

 Mountbegon. (See the Introduction.) 



* William Fitz Nigel, lord of Halton, co. Chester. 

 This fee consisted of the greater part of Ughtred's 

 manors in Roby, Knowsley, Kirkby, etc., and subse- 

 quently formed part of the ' fee of the constable of 

 Chester' within the co. of Lancaster, also known as 

 the fee of Widnes. 



s Possibly Warin Bussel, and the fee the manor of 

 Kirkdale, which was afterwards a member of the 

 Bussels' barony of Penwortham. 



6 ' Goisfridus homo Rogeri ' occurs in the survey of 

 Roger of Poitou's Lincolnshire fees as tenant of Osgodby. 

 Dom. Bk. i. f. 352. 



'' Robert and Gilbert were possibly officers of 

 Roger's household. 



8 These particulars confirm the suggested identities 

 of the fees created by Roger before 1086. The 

 bulk of the woodland in the chief manor of West 

 Derby and in Ughtred's manors lay between Walton 

 on the west and the boundary of this hundred on the 

 east, and between Lathom on the north and Huyton 

 on the south. 



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