HOLDERS OF LANDS 



meadow and pasture i league in length and 

 another in breadth. It pays 24 pounds by 

 weight. When Baldwin the sheriff received it 

 it paid the same. 



From the aforesaid manor called Tauestoca 

 [Tawstock] a manor has been taken away 

 called BiCHENELiA [Bickingleigh] ^ which belong- 

 ed there T.R.E., and it paid geld for i^ virgates. 

 These 10 ploughs can till. Twelve villeins are 

 there, also 20 acres of meadow and 100 acres of 

 pasture. It pays 4 pounds yearly. Now it is 

 wrongfully included in the manor called Bichen- 

 tona [High Bickington]. 



The king has a manor called Chentona 

 [Kenton] ^ which Queen Eideta {Eddida) held 

 T.R.E., and it paid geld for 3 hides and i ferding. 

 These 20 ploughs can till. Thereof the king 

 has in demesne I hide and 4 ploughs, and the 

 villeins 2 hides i ferding and 1 5 ploughs. There 

 the king has 30 villeins, 10 bordars, 6 serfs, 

 4 swineherds paying 20 shillings a year, 8 salt- 

 workers paying 20 shillings a year, 20 beasts, 

 200 sheep, 20 goats, also i mill paying 50 pence 

 a year, wood(land) \ league in length by 4 fur- 

 longs in breadth, 10 acres of meadow and 

 150 acres of pasture. It is worth 30 pounds a 

 year. 



The king has a manor called Nortmoltona 

 [North Molton] ' which the queen held T.R.E., 

 and it paid geld for I ^ hides. These 100 ploughs 

 can till. Thereof the king has in demesne i vir- 

 gate and 7 ploughs, and the villeins 3^ virgates 

 and 40 ploughs. There the king has 44 villeins, 

 50 bordars, 4 ironworkers {ferruarit), 15 swine- 

 herds, II serfs, 30 beasts, 170 sheep, 30 goats, 



1 league of coppice taking length and breadth, 



2 leagues of meadow and 2 leagues of pasture. 

 It pays 45 pounds a year. 



fol. 95. 



The king has a manor called Mollanda 

 [Molland] * which Harold held T.R.E., and it 

 paid geld for 4 hides and i ferding. These 

 40 ploughs can till. Thereof the king has in 

 demesne i hide and 3 ploughs, and the villeins 



3 hides I ferding and 16 ploughs. There the 

 king has 30 villeins, 20 bordars, 10 serfs, 30 beasts, 

 70 sheep, 15 acres of wood(land), 12 acres of 

 meadow and 3 leagues of pasture taking length 

 and breadth. It pays yearly 24 pounds by 

 weight. And to that manor of Molland has 



' Now called Langleigh, an outlier of High Bick- 

 ington in North Tawton hundred (O.J.R.). 



' Kenton manor in Exminster hundred. 



' The hundred-manor of North Molton now 

 united with South Molton hundred. Pulham and 

 Praunsley in Twitchin, assessed at I^ virgates, repre- 

 sent the shortage between the total assessment and 

 the king's and villagers' assessments together. 



* The hundred-manor of Molland Botreaux, now 

 united with South Molton hundred. 



been added a manor called Blacapola [Black- 

 pool] ^ which Edward held T.R.E., and it paid 

 geld for J hide. This 2 ploughs can till. 

 There he has 5 villeins and i serf. It is worth 

 20 shillings a year weighed and assayed [adpondus 

 et arsuram). Also to that manor has been wrong- 

 fully added a certain manor called Nimeta [an 

 Intake] * which is worth 1 5 shillings a year.' 



The king has a manor called Morbatha 

 [Morbath] ^ which Harold held T.R.E., and it 

 paid geld for 3 hides. This 20 ploughs can till. 

 Thereof the king has in demesne i hide and 

 I plough, and the villeins 2 hides and 15 ploughs. 

 There the king has 20 villeins, 13 bordars, 

 12 serfs, 40 acres of wood(land), 10 acres of 

 meadow, and 20 of pasture. It pays 7 pounds 

 a year. 



The king has a manor called Clistona [Broad 

 Clyst] \ which Ordulf held T.R.E., and it paid 

 geld for 9 J hides. These 35 ploughs can till. 

 Thereof the king has in demesne 2 hides and 

 I plough, and the villeins 6^ hides and 26 ploughs. 

 There the king has 35 villeins, 7 colberts, 30 bor- 

 dars, 1 1 serfs, I rouncey (runcinus), I o beasts, 

 4 swine, 1 00 sheep, i mill paying 20 shillings a 

 year, 1 50 acres of wood(land), 40 acres of meadow 

 and ^ league of pasture. Worth 24 pounds a 

 year, by weight. 



To the manor called Molland belongs the 

 third penny of the hundreds of Northmolton, 

 Bampton, and Braunton, and (the dues of every) 

 third beast agisted on the moors {tercium animal 

 pascue morarum). These customary dues the 

 king has not had since he has had England.^" 



' Blackpool in the parish of Chittlehampton in the 

 hundred of South Molton (O. J. R.), Feud. Aids, i, 

 326 ; or Blackpool in South Molton (T. W. W.). 



* Warkleigh in the hundred of South Molton, held 

 together with Blackpool of the honour of Stoke Curcy 

 (O. J. R.), Testa de Nevill, p. 183^; or Twitchin 

 (T. W. W.). 



' Fol. 4993 says J virgate held by two sisters in 

 parage. 



° Morbath manor in Bampton hundred. 



° The hundred-manor of Broad Clyst. There 

 is seemingly a shortage of I hide between the sum of 

 the king's and villagers' and the total assessment, but 

 there is a doubt whether 6^ should not be read as 7 J. 



'" See fol. 499^5. The third penny of the profits 

 of jurisdiction called the pleas of the shire and that 

 of the issues of the county town were the normal 

 perquisites of the earl, the final remnant of the earl's 

 judicial functions. See the Diahgus de Scaccario, Oxford 

 University Press (1902), p. 205. From time imme- 

 morial all the landholders of Devon, excepting those 

 in the boroughs of Totnes and Barnstaple, enjoyed 

 the right of depasturing the cattle levant and couchant 

 on their holdings in the forest by day. For keeping 

 them in the forest by night they paid lying-out or 

 agistment dues, the existing stone huts being used by 

 those looking after the cattle from distant parts of 

 the county. When the rest of the county was dis- 



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