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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS now. There is wood(land) for 15 swine, (with) 1 2 acres of meadow. Then i mill ; now 2. Pasture for 300 sheep. Now i salt- pan. It then l rendered 2 nights' ferm (nodes de firma) ; n and when Baignard held it, 14 pounds ; now 1 1 (pounds). To this manor there belonged (jacuerunt) in the time of King Edward 17 sokemen (with) i hide who ren- dered all customary due(s) ; and after the king came into this land, and Bain[ard] was sheriff, Tedric Pointel obtained possession of (occupavit) that land ; and when he received it there were dwelling on (manebant in) it I 7 sokemen who had 9 ploughs ; they are now in the king's fo. 6b hand(s), and 1 3 men hold this land and have 4 ploughs ; (there is) wood(land) there for 15 swine, with 2^ acres of meadow ; it was then 1 worth 4 pounds ; and when Tedric Pointel held it 4 pounds ; now 40 shillings. Peter (de Valognes) took over (accepit) on the de- mesne of this manor 2 1 beasts (anima/ia) and 4 rounceys (runcinos) and 45 swine and 190 sheep. To this manor there belonged in the time of King Edward an outlying estate (btrrwita) of 4 hides which Engelric seized (invasit) ; Count Eustace holds it.* There also used to belong 21 sokemen holding I hide and 2 virgates and 5 acres, whom Roger de Ramis has in exchange, as he says and he vouches Suain to warranty (inde vocat liberatorem suanum). 3 And there were in this manor, in King Edward's time, 4 sokemen who rendered all customary due(s) ; Richard son of Count Gilbert seized them (invasit) when Suen was sheriff; they hold half a hide and 15 acres, which are now in the king's hand(s), because there was no one on Richard's (ejm) part who could say how he came to have them ; then as now (semper) i plough was (there), and in King Edward's time it was worth 13 shillings, and hitherto Richard has had that rent.* Waleram seized I sokeman 1 i.e. in King Edward's time. estate. The count had succeeded Ingelric in several estates lying in Tendring Hundred, among which was Dale Hall in Lawford, but this is entered as a manor of only 2 hides ; nor, it would seem, is Ingelric charged with seizing more than j hide there (see p. 470 below). ' That is to say he alleged that Swegen of Essex, when in charge of the manor as sheriff, gave him livery of this land (see Introduction, p. 413). It cannot be clearly identified among his lands below (PP- 543-4)- find 37 acres (at ' Aleforda ') entered as belonging to Lawford, though held by him at the time of with (de) 30 acres ; (there was) then I plough, and now none ; and it is worth 10 shillings ; and Waleram has had that rent till now. 6 Hagebert 6 holds 30 acres, which were held by I sokeman, and he vouches Suain to war- ranty (inde revocat liberatorem suanum) ; (there was) then i plough, (and) now a half ; it was then worth 5 shillings and 4 pence, (and) now 32 pence. Count Eustace holds i hides and 45 acres which were seized by Engelric ; and that land was held by 8 sokemen. The Bishop of Bayeux holds half a hide, which Ralf son of Turold holds under him. 7 Ranulf brother of Ilger holds 1 5 acres ; 8 Hugh de Mon(t)fort 30 acres ; Ralf Baignart half a hide and 35 acres ;* Eudo dapifer 37$ acres ; Roger, a man of the Bishop of Lon- don, 10 i hide and 30 acres ; Walter the deacon 5 acres. AH this land used to render every customary due to the abovesaid manor in King Edward's time. fo.7 HUNDRET OF ODELESFORT [UfTLESFORD] NEUPORT [Newport] was held by Harold, in King Edward's time, as a manor and as 8^ hides. Now King William (holds it). Then 1 8 villeins; afterwards 15; now 26. Then 8 bordars ; afterwards 6 ; now 13. Then 4 serfs ; afterwards and now 2. Then 2 ploughs on the demesne ; afterwards and now I. Then and afterwards the men had 8 ploughs between them ; now 10. (There is) wood(land) for 100 swine, (with) 24 acres of meadow. Then as now (semper) 2 mills and IO beasts (animalia) and I rouncey (runcinus) (and) 79 swine (and) 102 sheep. It used then * to render 2 nights' ferm (noctes defirma). 11 There is, moreover, an outlying estate (bere- wita) of 3 hides and 46 acres, which lies in the Survey ; and its rent was only 6 shillings (for- merly 10). 6 This does not seem to be accounted for under his (son's) land. 8 This was doubtless the Haghebern whose land is entered on p. 561 below, but there is no men- tion of this there. 7 Under the bishop's land Domesday enters a half hide at Alresford as having been seized by Turold (of Rochester) RalPs father and as being in the king's hands in 1086 because Ralf could not prove his right to it (p. 460 below). 8 These are duly entered, under his land, as in the manor of Lawford. 9 This estate is entered under his land, where it is said that he claims to have obtained it by ex- change. 10 Probably the ' Roger ' who held of him New Hall in Tendring. 11 See Introduction, p. 336. 435
 * There is some difficulty in identifying this
 * Under Richard's land (p. 480 below) we only