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1922 quinque sokemannos. scilicet. Colsweyn. Langebeyn. Truinwine. Stannard. Anund. ⁊ hos homines abstulit post mortem. Alfwoldi abbatis dum monasterium esset sub manu regis. Et apud Multone aufert ipse .I. unani toftam cum segete. ⁊ de tofta ecclesie dimidiam acram. ⁊ de altera tofta dimidiam acram. Et apud Waketone auferunt prepositi eius Coleman ⁊ Wlricus. in hoc anno partem nemoris que ad nos pertinet. ⁊ partem nemoris ad Aselaketonam. aufert ipse .I. ⁊ homines illius. Apud Tybenham aufert Walterus Canut .iias. toftas ⁊ quicquid ad illas pertinet. Et cum quidam noster homo uellet domum transferre sicut uicini fecerunt. scilicet Ringolf uenit ipse .W. ⁊ procidit lingna [sic] ⁊ artiffices [sic] uerberauit. ⁊ domum edifficare [sic] prohibuit. Et iterum de Colesrode aufert quantum homines de uilla cognoscunt. Et preter hec partes terre apud Antingham homines Rogeri. Gouti ⁊ socii sui auferunt quartam partem pasture qua fodiuntur turue. Et in Stalham Rodbertus Dulum [sic] aufert sextam partem pasture ⁊ nemoris.

At the time when the memorandum was written Norfolk was still a county sub lege Danorum. It is therefore natural that there should be a distinct Scandinavian element among the personal names which occur in the memorandum. It is much smaller than the Old English element, but it has a distinctive character. The names Gouti, Howard, Langebeyn, Ringolf, Anund, are rarely found in documents which relate to the Northern Danelaw. Bond or Bonde, one of the commonest native personal names in twelfth-century Norfolk, is rare in Lincolnshire. The names which occur in other portions of the register of St. Benet's produce the same impression. The Anglo-Scandinavian personal names which survived into the twelfth century form an immense mass of material upon which little work has been done as yet. But