Page:VCH Essex 1.djvu/611

 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS UDECHESHALE [ ],' which was held by Ulwin as a manor and as I hide, is held by Aubrey in demesne. Then as now (sem- per) 2 ploughs on the demesne. Then 3 ploughs belonging to the men ; now i. Then 1 1 villeins ; now 6. Then 2 bordars ; now 4. Then as now (semper) 4 serfs. (There is) wood(land) for 100 swine (and) 48 acres of meadow. Then 6 beasts (animala 2 roun- ceys (runcini), 20 swine, 60 sheep, (and) 3 hives of bees ; now 8 beasts, 2 rounceys, 30 swine, 80 sheep, (and) 3 hives of bees. It is worth now as then (temper) 60 shillings. To fo. 7b this estate (terra) have been added I virgate and 8 acres, which were held by a free man in King Edward's time ; now Ralf holds (it) of A[ubrey] ; then as now (semper) i plough (was) on the demesne ; then I bordar ; now 3 ; (there is) wood(land) for 30 swine, (and) 9 acres of meadow ; it was then worth 16 shillings ; now 30. HUNDRET OF UDELESFORT [UlTLESFORD] TUNRESLEA [Thunderley*], which was held by Ailmar', a free man, as a manor and as 5 hides in King Edward's time, is held of A[ubrey] by Ralf. Then and afterwards 2 ploughs on the demesne ; now 3. Then as now (semper) 3 ploughs belonging to the men, and I priest, and 1 1 villeins, and 5 bordars. Then and afterwards (there was) wood(land) for 100 swine ; now for 80. (There are) 12 acres of meadow. Then 120 sheep, 40 swine, 60 goats, 8 beasts (animalia), 3 roun- ceys (runcini), (and) 5 hives of bees ; now 140 sheep, 60 swine, (and) the rest unchanged (allud similiter). Then and afterwards it was worth 6 pounds ; now 7. HALF HUNDRET OF CLAVELINGA [CLAVERING] UGGHELEA [Ugley *], which was held by Ulwin as a manor and as 5 hides, is held of A[ubrey] by Ralf. Then as now (semper) 3 ploughs on the demesne, and 4 ploughs be- longing to the men. Then 1 villeins ; after- wards and now 7. Then and afterwards i bordar ; now 10. Then and afterwards 6 serfs ; now 2. Then and afterwards (there was) wood(land) for 200 swine ; now for 160. There are 25 acres of meadow. Then 5 1 This place has not been identified. The abundance of meadow points to its lying in a river valley. 1 Now united with Wimbish. 1 See, for the descent of Ugley, my paper on ' A charter of Alice of Essex ' in Eisex Arch. Trans. [n.s.] viii. 330. beasts (animalia), 50 swine, 160 sheep, 2 rounceys (runcini), 50 goats, (and) 2 hives of bees ; now 3 beasts (animalia), 22 swine, 80 sheep, 4 rounceys, 20 goats, (and) 2 hives of bees. It was then worth 6 pounds ; now 8. HUNDRET OF HIDINGFORDA [HINCKFORD] HAINGHEHAM [(Castle) Hedingham], which was held by Ulwin' as a manor and as 2 hides, is held by Aubrey in demesne. Then as now (semfier) 4 ploughs on the demesne, and 6 ploughs belonging to the men, and 1 5 villeins, and 7 bordars, and 8 serfs. (There is) wood- (land) for 200 swine, and 30 acres of meadow. (There was) then I mill ; now none. (There are) now 6 arpents (arpennl) of vineyard. Then 1 1 beasts (anima/ia), 1 40 sheep, 80 swine, and 4 rounceys (runcini) ; now 160 sheep, 100 swine, i rouncey, (and) 100 goats. And (there were ?) 13 sokemen who could not withdraw themselves (recedere), holding i hide and 10 acres ; then as now (semper) 7* ploughs (were there) ; then 1 5 villeins ; now 1 8 ; (there are) now 22 bordars; then 6 serfs ; now 2, having 3 ploughs ; 6 (there is) wood(Iand) for 60 swine, (and) 43 acres of meadow ; then as now (semper) i mill was there. It 6 was then worth 13 pounds; now 2O. To this manor* belong (jacent) 15 burgesses in Sudberia [Sudbury], and they are appraised in (the total of) those 2O pounds. Of this manor 6 Robert Blund' holds 35 acres ; Garin' 25 acres ; Pincun' 1 5 acres ; Godun 1 5 acres ; (and) they have 5 fo. 77 ploughs ; and (these holdings) are worth 7 pounds in the above valuation (in eodem pretio).' 1 5 into 7. 5 This of course must not be taken as implying that these ploughs belonged to the serfs. They were probably the ploughs employed on that por- tion of this estate which had now been turned into demesne. 6 It should be observed that this estate is valued as a whole and is spoken of as a ' manor,' although it was clearly divided, under Edward, between the 'manor' of Wulwine and the estate of the sokemen, the latter having its own woodland, meadow and mill. This therefore is a good in- stance of a Norman lord fusing into one ' manor ' the lands of his English predecessor and those of the latter's sokemen. 1 These (comparatively) small holdings on a large manor in the hands of foreigners arc, like vineyards, a sign of the residence of a Norm.in baron, and imply consequently that Aubrey had already a residence at Hedingham (Castle), the seat of his descendants (compare pp. Z94, 383, 484, note 6). It should be observed that these holdings are 533
 * ' ii ' is interlineated above v, as if to change