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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 9 bordars and 3 serfs, and 2 mills worth 15 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, and pasture sufficient for the live stock, and wood sufficient for the fences and the homesteads. The total value is and was 1 8 pounds and 10 shillings ; T.R.E. 2O pounds and 10 shillings. This manor was and is part of the demesne (jacuit et jacet in dominio) of the church of St. Alban. The vill of St. Albans is assessed at 10 hides. There is land for 16 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 hides, and on it are 2 ploughs, and there could be a third. There 4 French- men and 1 6 villeins with 13 bordars have 13 ploughs between them. There are 46 bur- gesses. The product of the toll and of the other revenues of the vill is 1 1 pounds and 14 shillings yearly. There are 3 mills worth 40 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 2 plough teams, woodland to feed i ,000 swine and producing 7 shillings revenue. Its total value is 20 pounds ; when received it was 12 pounds ; T.R.E. 24 pounds. In this same vill there are 1 2 cottars besides. There is a 'park' for beasts of the chase (bestiarum sil- vaticarum) and there is a fish-stew (vivarium piscium). The forementioned burgesses have half a hide. IN BRADEWATRE [BROADWATER] HUNDRET CODICOTE [Codicot *] and OXEW'ICHE [POxhey] 8 were 2 manors T.R.E., and now they are i, which is assessed at 8 hides. There is land for 1 2 ploughs. In the demesne there are 3 hides and i virgate, and on it are 4 ploughs. There 16 villeins have between them 7 ploughs, and there could be an eighth. There are i Frenchman and 3 cottars and 4 serfs, and 2 mills worth 12 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 2 plough teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed 200 swine. Its total value is 6 pounds ; when received 5 pounds ; T.R.E. it was 12 pounds. These 2 manors belonged to the church (jacuerunt in ecc/esia) of St. Alban T.R.E. Alwin (of) Gotone held there 3 hides under the Abbot and could not alienate them from the church. Fifteen acres of this land were encroached on by the count of Mortain's men to the wrong of (super) the Abbot so the men of the hundred (court) testify. The Abbot himself holds NORTONE [Nor- ton]. It is assessed at 4 hides. There is land for 10 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 hides, I Now is in Cashio Hundred. II In Watford. and on it are 3 ploughs. A priest and a Frenchman and 14 villeins have 7 ploughs between them. There are 5 cottars and i serf, and 2 mills worth 16 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 2 plough teams, and pas- ture for the live stock. Its total value is and was 1 6 pounds; T.R.E. it was 17 pounds. This St. Alban held and holds in demesne. The Abbot himself holds ESCEPEHALE [Sheephall] as 3 hides. There is land for 5 ploughs. In the demesne are i hides, and on it is i plough, and there could be another. There 8 villeins have 3 ploughs between them. There are 2 cottars and i serf. Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, and pasture sufficient for the live stock, wood- land to feed 10 swine. Its total value is 4 pounds ; when received it was 3 pounds ; T.R.E. it was 4 pounds. This manor was and is part of the demesne (jacuit et jacet in dominio) of the church of St. Alban. IN DANAIS [DACORUM] HUNDRET The Abbot himself holds LANGELAI [Abbot's Langley]. It was assessed at 5^ hides T.R.E., and now at 3 hides. There is land for 1 5 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 hides. There are 4 ploughs on it, and there could be a fifth. A priest there and a Frenchman with 10 villeins have 10 ploughs between them. There are 5 bordars and 2 serfs, and 2 mills worth 20 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 5 plough teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed 300 swine. Of this land a knight (miles) holds a half-hide. Its total value is 10 pounds ; when received it was 12 ; T.R.E. 15 pounds. This manor belonged and belongs to the church (jacuit et jacet in ecclesia] of St. Alban. From this manor Herbert fitz Ivo s took and occupied i hide what with wood and field (inter boscum et planum) in the bishop of Bayeux's time. This hide 4 belonged to the church of St. Alban on the day when king Edward was alive and died. It is now held by the count of Mortain. In REDBORNE [Redbourn] the same Abbot holds 7 hides and i virgate. There is land for 1 6 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 hides and I virgate, and 4 ploughs are on it. There 1 6 villeins have 12 ploughs between them. There is i serf, and there are 2 mills worth 3 He was an under-tenant of the bishop of Bayeux at several places in Bedfordshire and Kent, and had erected an obnoxious mill at the entrance of Dover harbour (J.H.R.). 4 See Introduction, p. 291.