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 A HISTORY OF ESSEX Gudmund * as a manor and as 3^ hides and 20 acres. Then as now (semper) 2 villeins. Then 2 bordars ; now 4. Then 5 serfs ; now 4. Then as now (semper) 2 ploughs on the demesne, and half a plough belonging to the men. (There is) pasture for 200 sheep, (and) wood(land) for 100 swine. It was then worth 7 pounds ; afterwards and now i oo shillings. Of this same manor Humfrey holds 2 hides of Hugh, and Ulmar i hide ; and these are worth 60 shillings out of the above amount (in eodem pretio). In PURLAI [Purleigh] 10 free men held 7 hides, which Hugh received as 2 manors. 8 But the Hundret (court) has no knowledge of this (hoc nescit 3 ). There were then on this land (in hoc terra] 4 bordars ; now 8. Then i serf ; now none. Then 8 ploughs ; now 6. (There is) wood(land) for 15 swine, (and) pasture for 100 sheep. Then and afterwards it was worth 6 pounds ; now 100 shillings. Hugh holds further (adhuc) in PURLAI [Purleigh] i manor of i^ hides and 8 acres, which was held, in King Edward's time, by 3 free men with (the) soke. 4 Then as now (semper) i^ ploughs. There is pasture for 40 sheep. Then as now (semper) it was worth 2O shillings. The whole abovesaid estate was worth, when he received it, 30 pounds. 6 in King Edward's time, by Alwin, a thegn, as a manor and as 2 hides, is held by Hugh in demesne. Then i bordar, and i villein ; now the same. Then as now (semper) I serf and i plough on the demesne. (There is) pasture for 40 sheep. It was then worth 30 shillings ; when he received it, 2O shillings ; now 30. ESTOLEIA [ 7 ], which was held by 8 is held by Hugh in demesne. Then as now (semper) 2 villeins. Then 2 bordars ; and now the same. And (there was) i i ploughs, and (are) now the same. It is worth 30 shillings. HUNDRET OF WENSISTREU [WINSTREE] LEGRA [Layer 9 ], which was held, in King Edward's time, by Liwin, a free man, as a manor and as i^ hides and 18 acres, is held by Hugh in demesne. Then as now (semper) i ploughs on the demesne. Now half a plough belonging to the men. Now 3 bor- dars. Then 3 serfs ; now none. Then as now (semper) 3 cows. Then 2O sheep ; now 60. (And there are) now 14 swine, and I rouncey (runcinus) and 7 goats. It was then worth 50 shillings ; and when he received (it), 2O shillings ; now 40 shillings. fo. HALESDUNA [ 6 ], which was held, HUNDRET OF HIDINGAFORDA [HINCKFORD] RAINES [Rayne (Hall)], which was held by Gudmund 10 as a manor and as 2 hides less 20 acres, is held of Hugh by Alcher. Then as now (semper) 3 ploughs on the demesne. Then and afterwards 7 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 2^. Then and afterwards 1 8 villeins ; now 5. Then and afterwards 6 bordars ; now 7. Then and afterwards 6 serfs ; now 4. (There is) wood(land) for 150 swine, (and) 1 6 acres of meadow. Then as now (semper) i mill, and i rouncey (runcinus). Then 1 8 beasts (animalia) ; now 1 7. Then as now (semper) 70 sheep, and 10 goats. Then and afterwards it was worth 6 pounds ; now 7. as an escheat, to a family which took its name. The manor held by Hugh must be that of Tiled Hall, a sit paid castle-guard rent to Dover. Morant wrongly identified this manor as that which Phin's widow held in 1086. 1 See p. 497, note 3, above. the use of the word ' manor.' 3 The statement seems to have been made on Hugh's behalf ; and the men of the ' Hundred ' probably stated that they had not seen any one give him seizin of the land or any writ of the king to that effect. 4 i.e. the soke of the land was vested in them. 5 This appears to refer to his lands in Latching- don and Purleigh, but the estimate is a high one. His Purleigh estate alone was assessed at over 12 hides, but Purleigh is a parish containing over 5,000 acres, and its detached portion, ' Gibcrakes,' in Danbury and Sandon was included in Hugh's holding, as is shown by the fact that, with South- house in (St. Mary's) Maldon and lands in Snore- ham, it passed to John de Grey, who received Purleigh as an escheat from Henry III. (Hundred Rolls, i. 159), and was held by his descendants the Greys of Wilton. 6 The name appears to be now lost, but the place was in or close to Mundon (see Introduction, P- 393)- 7 This place has not been identified. Mr. Chisenhale-Marsh suggested that it might be Stow Maries, but, as it occurs above as ' Estolleia,' and is found in the thirteenth century as ' Scolee ' or ' Scoleghe ' (i.e. ' Stolee ' or ' Stoleghe '), its second syllable is well established. In Devonshire the ' Stolei ' of Domesday is now Stoodleigh. 8 The name of the former holder is omitted in the MS., which reads, moreover: 'quod tenent semper ii villani.' 9 The identity of this manor seems to be un- certain. 10 See p. 497, note 3, above. 498
 * This passage should be noted as bearing on