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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE hay and pasturage is a revenue of 10 shillings. The total value is 14 pounds and 10 shillings ; when received it was 12 pounds; T.R.E. it was 1 8. This manor earl Harold held. 1 XXIV. THE LAND OF RALF BAN- GIARD Ralf Baingiard holds ALSIESWICHE [Als- wick] 8 and William holds (it) of him. It is assessed at 6 hides. There is land for 7 ploughs. On the demesne are 2, and a third could be added. There 4 villeins have 3 ploughs between them, and there could be a fourth. There are 1 1 cottars and 7 serfs. Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, pasture sufficient for the live stock of the vill, and woodland to feed 10 swine. In all its value is 7 pounds ; when received it was 100 shillings; T.R.E. 8 pounds. This manor Almar, one of earl Guert's s men, held and could sell. fo. is8b In HOREMEDE [Hormead] William holds of Ralf I virgate. There is land for a half-plough, but it is not there. There is wood only for fences. It has always been worth 5 shillings. This land Wlward, one of Asgar the staller's men, held. 4 The men of count Eustace claim to have it back because they had been seized of it for 2 years after the Count came into possession of this honour (ad hunc honorem venit), as the men of the hundred testify. IN HERTFORD HUNDRET Ralf himself holds HEREFORDINGBERIE [Hertingfordbury]. It is assessed at 5 hides. There is land for I o ploughs. In the demesne there are 3 hides and i virgate, and on it are 2 ploughs, and there could be a third. There 5 villeins with i Frenchman and 6 bordars have 5 ploughs, and there could be two more. There are 1 1 cottars and 4 serfs, and 2 mills worth 6 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 3 plough teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock of the vill, wood- land to feed 200 swine. From woodland and pasture is a revenue of 7 shillings. In all its value is 8 pounds ; when received it was 6 pounds ; T.R.E. 10 pounds. This manor Alwin, a thegn of earl Harold's, held and could sell. 1 See Introduction, p. 299. 3 Gyrth, brother of Harold (J.H.R.). 4 Compare the Hormead entry on p. 322 (J.H.R.). XXV. THE LAND OF RANNULF ILGER'S BROTHER Rannulf brother of Ilger holds i hide in STAGNEHOU [Stagenhoe 6 ] and William holds it of him. There is land for 3 ploughs. On the demesne is i, and 6 villeins have another, and there could be a third. There are 2 cottars, and there is woodland to feed 20 swine. This land is worth 50 shillings ; when received it was worth 20 shillings ; T.R.E. 4 pounds. This manor Turbern, a man of king Edward, held and could sell. IN BRACHINGES [BRAUGHING] HUNDRET Rannulf himself holds in STANESTEDE [Stan- stead] 17 hides 6 and a half-virgate. There is land for 16 ploughs. In the demesne are 13 hides, and on it are 2 ploughs, and there could be a third. There 4 villeins and (cum) a priest and the reeve (preposito) of the vill and 4 Frenchmen have 8 ploughs, and there could be 5 more. There are 6 cottars and 2 serfs, and i mill worth 10 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 16 plough teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock of the vill, wood- land for 100 swine. There are also 7 bur- gesses, who pay with other dues of meadow and wood 23 shillings. The total value is 1 7 pounds ; when received it was I o pounds ; T.R.E. 20 pounds. Alwin of Godtone held 1 1 hides and a half-virgate of this manor. Of these hides Ralf Tailgebosc gave 10 with his niece as a marriage portion to Rannulf, and the eleventh hide he attached to (posuit in) Honesdone [Hunsdon]. 7 The other 7 hides 4 8 sokemen held. Four of these, Anschil's men, had 4 hides, the other 10, men of Alwine of Godtone, had 3 hides and gave of custom to the King's sheriff 1 2 pence yearly. But all the 14 could sell their land. XXVI. THE LAND OF HUGH DE GRENTEMAISNIL IN BRACHINGES [BRAUGHING] HUNDRET Hugh de Grentmaisnil holds in WARAS [Ware] 24 hides. There is land for 38 6 1 8 hides, apparently, are accounted for in the details (J.H.R.). 7 It seems clear that ' Honesdone ' must be Hunsdon, but the passage should be compared with the words at the end of the survey (p. 344), where Ralf is said to have taken this hide from Stanstead and attached it to ' Hodesdone.' I believe that the latter name is given in error for ' Honesdone ' (Hunsdon) (J.H.R.). 8 ? a scribal error for 14. 326
 * In Layston.
 * In St. Paul's Walden.