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 A HISTORY OF ESSEX fo. l?b 1 IX. THE LAND OF ST. MARY OF BARKING [BERCHINGES] HUNDRET OF BERDESTAPLA [BARSTABLE] MUCINGA [Mucking] is held by St. Mary 8 as 7 hides ; and Turold de Rovecestra [Rochester] took away from it (inde) 30 acres, and they (now) belong to (jacent ad) the fief of the Bishop of Bayeux. 3 And there was I plough on the demesne in King Edward's time; now 2. Then as now (semper) 9 ploughs be- longing to the villeins, 4 and 12 villeins. Then 14 bordars ; now 25. Then 4 serfs; now none. Wood(land) for 300 swine, pasture for 300 sheep, (and) 40 acres of meadow. Now i mill. (There is) i fishery. (There are) 10 beasts (animalla), 2 rounceys (runcini), 1 8 swine, (and) 250 sheep. Then as now (sem- per) it was worth 10 pounds. BULGEVEN [Bulphan] is held by St. Mary as 7 hides. Then i plough on the demesne ; now 2. Then 7 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 10. Then 10 villeins ; now 16. Then 5 bordars ; now 1 6. (There are) 3 serfs. Wood(land) for 500 swine. (There are) 8 beasts (animalia), 15 swine, I rouncey (runcinus), (and) 80 sheep. It was then worth 8 pounds; now 10. From this land Ravengar took (away) 24 acres. In FANTUNA [Fanton (Hall 6 )] i villein holds 40 acres of land ; then as now (semper) half a plough (there) ; and it is worth 40 pence. Of (De) the abovesaid manor, namely Much- inga [Mucking] William holds half a hide and 30 acres ; and (there are) 3 bordars ; and it is worth 18 shillings of (/') the abovesaid appraisement of the same manor. In this Hundred are 6 free men who hold 2 hides and 50 acres. Then as now (semper) 2 ploughs (were there). Then 3 bordars ; now 6. Then i serf ; now none. Then wood- 1 At the top of fo. 17 is a list of the ten next tenants-in-chief, which has been deleted. The rest of that folio is blank (compare p. 413 and p. 437, note 5, above). 8 Barking Abbey. 3 I feel no doubt that these are entered below (p. 456), under the fief of the Bishop of Bayeux, at Chadwell (held of him by 'the son of Turold'), where we read that 30 acres of the land there had belonged ' to another estate ' (terrani). 4 ' Villanis,' not ' hominum ' (as usual). 6 A manor in North Benflet. (land) for 100 swine ; now for 55. (There is) a 1 3th part of i fishery. The whole is worth 30 shillings. These free men belonged to (exstiterunt ad) Barking (berchinguni) ; but now the king can do with them (ex ipsis) what he likes (quod sibl placuerii). From the wood- (land) of this estate (terree) Robert Gernon 6 (grinon) has 50 swine. And of the abovesaid estate (terra) Godwine cudhen holds 3 vir- gates ; and it is worth i o shillings. HALF HUNDRET OF HERLAUA [HARLOW] In PERENDUNA [Parndon] St. Mary holds now as then (semper) half a hide. Half a plough (is there, and) I bordar. Wood(land) for 10 swine, and 5 acres of meadow. It is worth 10 shillings. HUNDRET OF BEVENTREU [BECONTREE] [Barking] is held now as then (semper) by St. Mary as 30 hides. Then 4 ploughs on the demesne ; now 3, and a 4th could be (employed). Then 70 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 68. Then 100 villeins; now 140. Then 50 bordars; now 90. Then 10 serfs; now 6. Wood(land) for 1,000 swine, (and) 100 acres of meadow. (There are) 2 mills, i fishery, 2 rounceys (run- cini), 34 beasts (animalia), 150 swine, 114 sheep, 19 goats, (and) 10 hives of bees. In London (there are appurtenant) 28 houses, fo. 18 which render 8 13 shillings and 8 pence, and a moiety of a church which, in King Edward's time, used to render 6 shillings and 8 pence, and now does not. This manor was worth, in King Edward's time, 80 pounds ; and now the same (similiter) as the English say ; but the French appraise it at 100 pounds. To this manor there used to belong, in King Edward's time, 24 acres, which Goscelin the lorimer has taken from it. 9 And 3 knights hold 2 hides ; and (there are there) 3 ploughs, and 3 villeins, and i o bordars ; and it is worth 45 shillings of the above sum (in eodem pretio). 10 HUNDRET OF WENSISTREU [WINSTREE] WICGHEBERGA [Wigborough "] is held by St. Mary now as then (semper) as 1 1 hides and 1 3 acres. Then 2^ ploughs on the demesne ; 6 The king's forester. 7 Compare p. 444, note 8, above. 8 A slight gap here in the MS. 9 His own estate was at Little Ilford close by. 10 The entry of the 3 knights' holding was crowded in subsequently. 11 i.e. the manor of Abbess Hall in Great Wig- borough. 448