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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS 24 beasts (anima/ia) and 136 swine and 101 sheep. The same number is there (totum similiter) now. In this manor there belonged (adjacebant), in the time of King Edward 34 free men who used then to render by custom 10 shillings and n pence. Of these Ilbodo holds 2 with (de) 45 acres ; and (they are) worth 6 shillings ; and they render to the manor their customary due. Tedric Pointel (holds) 8 with (de) half a hide and 22^ acres, who render (their) customary due, and are worth 20 shillings. Ranulf Peverel (holds) 10 with (de) 2 hides and 45 acres, who do not render (their) customary due and are worth 15 shillings. William son of Grosse (holds) 5 with (de) i hide and 15 acres, (of whom) only one renders (his) customary due, and (they are) worth 3 pounds and 1 3 shillings. Ralf Baignard (holds) 6 with (de) half a hide and 35 acres ; one renders (his) customary due, and (they arc) worth 2O shillings. Hamo dapifer holds I with (de) half a hide ; he renders (his) customary due, and is worth 2O shillings. Goscelin the lorimer has the land of one and does not render (his) cus- tomary due ; this is (scilicet) I hide, which is claimed by the monks of St. jEthelthryth. of Ely (eli) ; and (the court of) the Hundret testifies in their favour (eh) concerning a half (of it), and as to the rest (the men of the Hundret) know nothing ; it was then worth 100 shillings ; now 60 ; and when Goscelin received it, I oo. In all the manor was worth 14 pounds less 2 shillings in the time of King Edward ; now 12 pounds and 9 shillings. HALF HUNDRET OF HERLAUA [HARLOW] HADFELDA [Hatfield (Broadoak)] was held by Harold, in the time of King Edward, as i manor and as 20 hides. Then 5 1 villeins ; now 60. Then 1 9 bordars ; now 30. Then 20 serfs ; now 22. Then 9 ploughs on the demesne ; now 8, and 3 rounceys (runcini) and 40 beasts (animalla) and 195 swine and 193 sheep. Then the men had 40 ploughs now 31^ ; this loss (of) plough-oxen took place (fult) in the time of all the sheriffs and through the death of the beasts. (There is) wood(land) for 800 swine, 120 acres of meadow, (and) pasture which renders 9 wethers (multones) to (in) the manor and 41 fo. ab acres of ploughing (aratura). 1 To the church of this manor there used to belong I hide and 30 acres, which were taken away from it by Suen after he lost the shrievalty ; and this land used to render a customary due to this 1 i.e. 41 acres on the lord's demesne had to be ploughed in return for the use of the pasture. manor. There also belonged to this manor, in the time of King Edward, i sokeman with half a hide, which G[eoffrey] de Magnavilla took away from it. To this land (terre)* there belongs i villein of i acre which Count E[ustace holds ; and 30 acres which were held in the time of King Edward by a smith who was put to death for theft, and (there- upon) the king's reeve added that land to this manor ; and 40 acres of wood(land) which were held by King Edward's reeve ; and Osmund the Angevin disseised the king's reeve and the manor both of the land and of the wood(land) ; Robert Gernon now holds (them). Robert Gernon also holds half a hide which was held by a sokeman in the time of King Edward. In addition to this there belonged (adjacebant) to this manor in the time of King Edward 3 outlying estates (berewitte), Herefort [Hertford], Emwella [Amwell] and Hodesduna [Hoddesdon], lying in Hertfordshire (Herefort lira), which are now held by Ralf de Limesay. 3 And there is I sokeman with (de) 30 acres now as then (semper) belonging to this manor. And the manor was then worth 36 pounds ; now 60 ; but the sheriff receives from it 80 and I OO shillings fine(gersuma),* And the 3 outlying estates (berewita) were then worth 1 2 pounds, and the land of the sokemen 45 shillings. There is wood(Iand) for 40 swine. Subse- quently we have recovered (ilc) half a hide which was held by a sokeman of Harold. It is now held by Ralf de Marcei as belonging to the fee of Hamo. It was then worth 10 shillings ; now 7.* HUNDRET OF BEVENTREU [BECONTREE] HAVERING.* 6 [Havering] was held by Harold in the time of King Edward as I manor and as 10 hides. Then 41 villeins; now 40. Then as now (semper) 41 bordars, and 6 serfs, and 2 ploughs on the demesne. Then the men had 41 ploughs ; now 40. There is wood(land) for 500 swine, (and) IOO acres of meadow. (There is) now I mill, and (there are) 2 rounceys (runcini), and 10 beasts (anima/ia), and 160 swine, and 269 sheep. To this manor there belonged in the seems probable that the scribe, as in several other cases, has here used terra indifferently for manerium. p. 338. 6 This important passage relates to the estate of Siriceslea' entered under the fief of Hamo dapifer (see p. 501 below and Introduction p. 412). 6 The plural form points to an English ' Haver- ings.' 429
 * The text is somewhat obscure here ; but it
 * This passage is discussed in the Introduction,
 * Consideration money for the lease.