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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS holds 3 hides and I virgate as one manor. There is land for 4 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and 8 villeins (are there) with 2 ploughs. There is 1 serf, and there is 1 mill (worth) 20 shillings, meadow (sufficient) for 2 plough teams, woodland (to feed) 40 swine. It is (and was) worth 60 shillings ; T.R.E. 4 pounds. This manor Goduin a man of Borret held and could sell. LV. THE LAND OF THE WIFE OF RALF TAILLEB(OSC) In Manesheve [Manshead] Hundret Azelina wife ' of Ralf Tallgebosc holds of the king in Badelesdone [Battlesden] i| hides. There is land for I ^ ploughs. One is there and there could be a half (plough) (more). There are 2 villeins and I bordar, and meadow (suffi- cient) for 1 plough team. It is and was worth 20 shillings ; T.R.E. 40 shillings. This land 2 sokemen, Anschil and Alwin, held and could sell to whom they wished. M. Azelina herself holds Hocheleia [Hock- liffe). It is assessed at 10 hides. There is land for 8 ploughs. In the demesne are 5 hides and on it are 2 ploughs. There are 13 villeins and (11 ?) bordars with 6 ploughs, meadow sufficient for 4 plough teams, wood- land to feed 100 swine. It all it is and was worth 8 pounds; T.R.E. 12 pounds. This manor Anschil held T.R.E. and could sell. In Flictham [Flitt] Hundret In Cainou [Cainhoe] Turstin holds of Azelina 1 hide. There is land for 2 ploughs. On the demesne is I, and I villein has another. There are 3 bordars, and meadow sufficient for 1 plough team, and woodland to feed 100 swine. It is worth 20 shillings, (was worth) when received 10 shillings ; T.R.E. 20 shil- lings. This land Ulvric, a sokeman of King Edward, held and could assign and sell to whom he wished. In Bereforde [Barford] Hundret In Wiboldestone [Wyboston 2 ] Judichel ants. There is no reason to suppose that he was a tenant-in-chief. Moreover this estate was after- wards held of the Earls of Leicester as half a knight's fee. The occurrence, however, of Stod- den Hundred after that of Wixamtree is not in accordance with the regular sequence, and might be held to suggest the beginning of a new tenancy- in-chief as suggested by Mr. Ragg (J.H.R.) 1 The word is ' femina ' instead of the usual ' uxor,' and it is clearly used here to mean ' widow ' (J.H.R.) 2 In Eaton Socon. holds 5i virgates of Azelina. There is land for 1 plough, and it is there with 1 villein and 2 bordars ; meadow is there (sufficient) for a half plough team. It is worth 10 shillings, (was worth) when received 5 shillings ; T.R.E. 30 shillings. This land Almar, a man of Ulmar, held and could sell and assign to whom he wished. In Bicheleswade [Biggleswade] Hundret In Aieworde [Eyworth] Brodo holds 1 hide of Azelina. There is land for I plough, and it is there with 1 bordar, (and there is) meadow (sufficient) for I plough team. It is and was worth 10 shillings T.R.E. and after {semper). This land belongs to (Azelina's) marriage portion. This land the same Brodo held and could sell to whom he wished. In Weneslai Hundret 3 M. In Hatelai [(Cockayne) Hatley] Aze- lina holds, (as) of her marriage portion, 5 hides and ii virgates. There is land for 8 ploughs. In the demesne are I hide and I virgate, and on it are 2 ploughs. There are 8 villeins and 4 bordars with 6 ploughs. There are I serf, and 1 mill (worth) 18 shillings (xviii solid- orum), meadow (sufficient) for 2 plough teams, woodland (to feed) 4 swine and (producing) 3 shillings rent. In all it is worth 6 pounds, when received (was worth) 100 shillings; T.R.E. 6 pounds. This manor Ulmar a thegn of King Edward held, and there were 2 soke- men, his men, there. They had 2^ virgates, and could assign and sell them to whom they wished. In Wichestanestou [Wixamtree] Hundret In Stanford [Stanford*] Roger holds 2 hides of Azelina, and this is (part) of her mar- riage portion. There is land for 2 ploughs. On the demesne is I plough, and 2 villeins and 1 bordar (are there) with I plough ; mea- dow is there (sufficient) for 2 plough teams, woodland (to feed) 30 swine, and 1 mill (worth) 13 shillings and 4 pence. It is worth 60 shillings, (was worth) when received 20 shillings ; T.R.E. 60 shillings. This land 2 sokemen held and could assign to whom they wished. In Wardone [Warden] Walter, a monk, 5 3 Half hundred. Now part of Biggleswade Hundred. 6 But possibly ' monachus ' was, as in later times, a nickname. Walter also held of her at Tadlow in Cambridgeshire (J.H.R.) 26]
 * In Southill.