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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE and there could be another. Pasture is there sufficient for the live stock of the vill ; wood sufficient for the fences. Altogether it is worth 26 shillings and 8 pence. When Peter (the sheriff) received it it was worth 40 shillings ; T.R.E. 60 shillings. Leueva held this land of earl Harold and could sell. Ilbert attached it to his manor of Linleia [Lilley] when he was sheriff. After he was deprived Peter de ' Valonges ' and Ralf ' Talgebosc ' took it from him and attached it (posuerunt in) to Hiz [Hitchin], as the whole shire-moot (scyra) testifies. It did not belong there T.R.E. nor did it render any dues. In WELEI [ ?] * i sokeman holds i hide. There is land for 2 ploughs, and the ploughs are there. There are 2 villeins and i bordar and 9 cottars. Meadow is there suffi- cient for a half-plough team, pasture sufficient for the live stock of the vill, and wood sufficient for the fences. To this land belongs (adjacet) a piece of woodland sufficient to feed 50 swine which Osmund de Valbadon (Valle Bad/mis) seized to the wrong of king William (invasit super). It was in the soke of Hiz [Hitchin] T.R.E., as the shire-moot (scyra) testifies. This land is worth, as it was worth, 20 shillings ; T.R.E. 30 shillings. Goduin, a man of earl Harold's, held this land and could sell. Peter the sheriff attached it to the ' firm ' in Hiz [Hitchin], 8 to which it did not belong T.R.E. nor did it render dues there. This land Ilbert had given to a knight (miles) of his when he was sheriff; and as regards it Geoffrey de Bech claims the King's mercy (reclamat misericordiam regis). 3 In WILEI [ ] 4 i sokeman holds half a hide. There is land for i plough, and a plough is there with i cottar. Wood is there (sufficient) for the fences. It is worth 10 shillings ; when received it was worth 5 ; T.R.E. it was worth 1 6 shillings. Edmund, a man of earl Harold's, held this land and could sell, but the soke remained in Hiz [Hitchin]. It finds I 'avera' (carrying service of i load). In FLESMERE [Flexmere ?] i sokeman holds 1 See Introduction, p. 297. 8 ' Posuit in Hiz ad firmam.' The meaning seems to be that he threw it into the Hitchin group of manors which was ' farmed ' as a whole (J.H.R.). 8 Geoffrey de Bech had succeeded to Ilbert's fief (J.H.R.). 4 See Introduction, p. 297. a half-virgate. There is land for a half-plough, and this is there and 4 cottars. Pasture is there sufficient for the live stock, and woodland to feed 5 swine. It is and was worth 40 pence ; T.R.E. 60 pence. He who now holds it held it T.R.E. ; (he was) a man of earl Harold's, and could sell. It rendered I 'avera' in Hiz [Hitchin]. In LEGLEGA [? Ley Green] 5 3 sokemen hold i virgate. There is land for i plough and a half- plough, and these are there with 4 bordars. Woodland is there to feed 40 swine. It is worth, and always was, 26 shil- lings and 8 pence. Three men of earl Algar's held this land. They could not sell it to separate it from (vendere extra) Hiz [Hitchin]. In HEGESTANESTONE [Hexton] i sokeman of the King's holds i virgate. There is land for a half-plough, and this is there and i villein. It is and was worth 20 pence ; T.R.E. 40 pence. He who now holds it, a man of the abbot's of St. Alban, held it T.R.E. and could sell. This land earl Harold at- tached to Hiz [Hitchin] by force and by injustice, as the shire-moot (scyra) testifies. IN HERTFORD HUNDRET King William holds BEGESFORD [Bayford]. 6 It is assessed at 10 hides. There is land for 20 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 hides and 3 virgates, and on it are 3 ploughs. A priest and reeve (prepositus) of this vill with 22 villeins have 15 ploughs between them, and there could be 2 more. There are 9 cottars and i serf, and 2 mills worth 26 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 20 plough teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock and worth 2 shillings besides, and woodland to feed 500 swine. In all it pays 1 6 pounds by tale ; when the sheriff received it it paid 8 pounds ; T.R.E. 20 pounds. Earl Tosti held this manor, but king Edward had it in demesne on the day on which he died. In all, Hiz [Hitchin] with its appurtenances pays 1 06 pounds assayed and weighed out, and 10 pounds by tale. When Peter the sheriff received it (it was) 86 pounds ; T.R.E. 60 pounds from Hiz and from the sokes (sack') belonging thereto 40 pounds by tale. 6 There is a Ley Green just north of King's Walden which is suggestive of ' Leglega ' (J.H.R). 6 This appears to have included Essendon as well as Bayfordbury (J.H.R.). 304