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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS fo. a,b for 30. There are 12 acres of meadow. Then 6 beasts (anima/ia), and I 5 swine, and 1 1 sheep ; r ow 5 rounceys (runcini), and 8 beasts, and 30 swine, and 66 sheep, and 15 goats. To this manor belongs a customary due (jactt una consuetude) of 22^ pence which is (payable) from Sutberia [Sudbury]. It was then worth 40 shillings ; afterwards and now 50. In BURA [Bures (St. Mary)] l Hugh holds of J[ohn] 15 acres, which were held by Tosti', a free man. Then as now (temper) half a plough (was there) and 2 villeins, and 2 bor- dars. (There is) wood(land) for 4 swine, (and) I acre of meadow. It is worth 6 shillings. This land is in the county of Sudfolc. HUNDRET OF ANGRA [ONGAR] FIFHIDA [Fyfield *], which was held by Leuric as a manor and as i^ hides and 30 acres in King Edward's time, is held of John by Roger. 8 Then 12 villeins ; now 7. Then and afterwards 2 bordars ; now 10. Then as now (semper) 4 serfs, and 2 ploughs on the demesne. Then and afterwards 4 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 3. (There is) wood(land) for 400 swine, i o acres of meadow, (and) now i mill. (There are) now 1 1 cows, and 1 1 swine and 60 sheep, and i hive of bees. Then and afterwards it was worth 5 pounds ; now 7. The other (Altera*} FIFHIDA [Fyfield], which was held by Alestan' as a manor and as 30 acres, 6 held of the same (John) by the same (Roger). Then as now (temper) 3 bor- dars. Then i plough ; now none. (There is) wood(land) for 40 swine, (and) 6 acres of meadow. It is worth now as then (semper) 2O shillings. ANGRA [(High) Ongar], which was held by Leuric as a manor and as 3 virgates, is held of the same (John) by the same (Roger). 6 Then as now (semper) 6 bordars, and i serf, and i plough on the demesne. (There is) wood- (land) for 200 swine, (and) 8 acres of meadow. (There are) now 30 swine and 40 sheep. It was then worth 40 shillings ; and when re- ceived, 20 shillings ; it is now worth 40 shillings. HUNDRET OF CEFFEORDA [CHAFFORD] AVILEIA [Aveley] was held freely (libere) by Suan' as a manor and as 3^ hides in King Edward's time ; now John holds it in de- mesne as the same amount (pro tantundem). Then 8 villeins ; now 6. Then 3 bordars ; now 5. Then 4 serfs; now I. Then 2 ploughs on the demesne ; now i. Then among the men (were) 3 ploughs ; now 2. (There are) 60 acres of meadow. Then and afterwards it was worth 8 pounds ; now i oo shillings. And a certain free man, Ulsi', held half a hide, which he had power to sell ; but Waleram, 7 father of John, added him (eum) to this manor ; then as now (semper) I villein and I bordar (were there) ; then half a plough ; now no oxen (nichil) ; it was then fo. 85 worth 1O shillings, and when received (sic), the same ; it is now worth 7 shillings. 1 i.e. the portion of it which lies in Hinckford Hundred (see Introduction, p. 408). successors both here and at Aveley. 8 This was doubtless the ' Roger' who gave its tithes to Bermondsey, with John's consent, in 1 094 (compare my note on ' Fyfield church ' in Enex Arch. Sac. [n.s.J viii. 104). two adjacent parishes of the same name ; but it seems here only to distinguish one manor in the parish from another (compare Introduction, pp. 402-3). 8 It is not improbable that this estate represents the ' 30 acres ' entered under the royal manor of Havering (p. 430 above) as having been held by a sokeman who had rendered dues to it, but as being in John's hands at the time of the Survey. For under the next fief we find entered an even more distant appendage of Havering, though its former connexion with that manor is there also ignored (p. 546, note 7, below). 1 545 XLI. THE LAND OF ROBERT SON OF CORBUTIO 8 HUNDRET OF BERDESTAPLA [BARSTABLE] DODDENHENC [Doddinghurst], which was held freely (litere) by Alvric* as a manor and as I hide and 17 acres in King Edward's time, is held of R[obert] by Girard'. Then as now (semper) I plough. (There is) wood- (land) for 20 swine. It is worth 20 shillings. Therefore it is clearly the 'Little Ongar' (parva Angra) which ' was of the barony of Gilbert de Tani ' (Testa de NeviU, p. 269), who must have succeeded John there as at Fyfield. 7 He gave the tithe of his lands here to St. Stephen's of Caen (see Introduction, p. 342. And, for his doings in the county, see p. 419 above). A tenant-in-chief in the three eastern counties. 6 9
 * It seems clear that the Tanis were John's
 * This word is sometimes used to distinguish