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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS (him). Then i plough (was there) ; now a half; it was then worth 16 shillings; now 12. HUNDRET OF ANGRA [ONGAR] PLUMTUNA [ *], which Ulvric the priest held of Harold freely (libere) as 14 acres, is held of Ranulf by Ravenot.* And R[anulf] has (it) now because his predecessor was seised (thereof) ; but it did not belong to him according to the county (court)'s testimony (sicut comitatus testatur). Then as now (sem- per) i villein and half a plough. There is wood(land) for 2O swine, (and) i^ acres of meadow. It is worth 5 shillings. HUNDRET OF CELMERESFORT [CHELMSFORD] SPRINGAFELDA [Springfield 8 ], which was held by Alestan' as a manor and as 5 hides and 2O acres, is held of R[anulf] by Robert. Then 6 villeins ; now 4. Then 3 bordars ; now 10. Then 8 (serfs 4 ) ; now 6. Then as now (semper) 3 ploughs on the demesne. Then and afterwards 3 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 2. (There is) wood(land) for 30 swine, 25 acres of meadow, (and) now as then (semper) i mill. Then 2 rounceys (run- cint) t 12 beasts (animaliai), 100 sheep, (and) 50 swine ; now 4 rounceys, 5 colts (pulli), 26 beasts, 40 sheep, 25 swine, 12 goats, 2 asses, (and) I hive of bees. It was then worth 5 pounds ; now 6. And two free men held 13 acres, which R[anulf] now has; this is worth 2 shillings. RADENDUNA [Rettendon 8 ], which was held by Si ward* as a manor and as I hide and 30 acres, is held (of Ranulf) by Ralf son of Brien. Then as now (semper) i bordar, and I plough on the demesne. (There is) wood(land) for 6 swine. It is worth now as then (semper) 25 shillings, and is claimed by the abbey of Ely. HALF HUNDRET OF MELDUNA [MALDON] In MELDUNA [Maldon] R[anulf] holds in demesne half a hide and 24 acres which was held by Si ward 6 as a manor in King Edward's 1 Morant asserted that Domesday Book placed this small holding 'under Stondon ' (i. 189) ; but this it will be seen is an error. There is nothing to show where the place was, and it is too small to be identified. * See p. 528. 8 The manor of Springfield Hall. 8 The identity of this estate has not been ascer- tained. It may have been recovered by the abbey of Ely, of which the whole of Rettendon seems to have been subsequently held. 6 See Introduction, p. 346. time. Then i bordar ; now 3. It is worth 5 shillings. This land is valued as part of (in) the 12 pounds from Maldon (de meldunu 7 ). HUNDRET OF TENDRINGA TENDRINGA [Tendring 8 ], which was held by Olui' freely (libere) as a manor and as half a hide and 30 acres, is held by R[anulf] in demesne. And R[anulf] has it by (in) ex- change. Then 2 serfs; now I. Then 2 ploughs ; afterwards and now i. (There is) fo. 7Sb wood(land) for 30 swine, (and) 2 acres of meadow. Then and afterwards it was worth 2O shillings ; now 60. CICE [St. Osyth 9 ], which was held by Siward 6 as a manor and as 2j hides, is held of R[anulf] by Turold. Then and afterwards 9 villeins ; now 6. Then and afterwards 12 bordars ; now 1 1. Then as now (temper) 7 serfs. Then and afterwards 4 ploughs on the demesne ; now 3. Then and afterwards 7 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 5. (There is) wood(land) for 800 swine, 10 4 acres of meadow, pasture for 200 sheep, (and) now as then (semper) i mill. Then 6 rounceys 7 See p. 518 above. 8 The identity of this manor is doubtful. ' The manors in the great parish of St. Osyth arc by no means easy to disentangle. But this one seems to be that which is now St. Clere's Hall. This conclusion is based on the following reason- ing. Maurice ' de Chiche ' (who is shown by the Colchester Cartulary, pp. 229-31, to have been father of Richard and grandfather of Gilbert) occurs in 1141 as holding 5 fees (see my Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 142), which were apparently part of the Honour of Peverel of London. Roger Ridel,' under John, held 5 fees of that Honour, and a tenant of the same name held of it, rather later, 5 fees ' in Chikene et Scirefeud ' (Red Book of the Exchequer, p. 740). As it is known that a manor in St. Osyth was named ' Chich-Ridel, and as Roger son of Geoffrey Ridel gave land at Chiche to St. John's Abbey (Colchester Cartulary, pp. 247-8, 651),! suspect that this ' Chikene ' was really Chich- Ridcl, and not (as the editor makes it) Chickney, with which the Ridels had nothing to do. If so, Chich-Ridel was Peverel's portion of St. Osyth ; and as Chich-Ridel, according to Morant, is styled 'alias St. Clere's Hall ' in the time of Henry VIII., the above identity follows. 10 Such extensive woodland as this is most ab- normal on the coast in the Essex of 1086, and is made still more so by the fact that, in addition, Count Eustace's manor in St. Osyth is credited with woodland for 400 swine. But there was much woodland in Osyth down to recent times. 531
 * ' borfdarii] ' in MS. an obvious error.