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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS is there sufficient for 100 swine. There is a park for beasts of the chase (parcus silvaticarum bestiarum). Altogether it is worth 1 2 pounds ; when received it was worth 6 pounds ; T.R.E. 14 pounds. .(Elmer of Belintone held this manor. In STUTEREHELE [Libury *] 2 sokemen hold of Peter I hide and 3 virgates. There is land for 2 ploughs, and these are there, with i bordar. Meadow is there sufficient for a half-plough team, pasture sufficient for the live stock. Altogether it is and was worth 20 shillings ; T.R.E. 40 shillings. One hide of this land was held by Leueron, a man of Elmer of Belintone. He could not sell except by Elmer's consent. And Alwin held 3 vir- gates ; he was the same ./Elma^r's man, but belonged to king Edward's soke and could sell. He found 3 parts of i ' avera ' (f of i carrying load) or else 3 pence for the sheriff. In STUTEREHELE [Libury *] Peter holds half a virgate and 10 acres. There is land for 3 oxen (to plough). One bordar is there. Woodland is there to feed 4 swine. This land is worth 2 shillings ; T.R.E. 8 . A sokeman of king Edward's held it and could sell. Of custom he rendered the fourth part of i ' avera ' (service of carrying of a load) or else gave the King's sheriff i penny yearly. The aforesaid land Peter the sheriff took from this sokeman of king William into the same King's hands as forfeit for his not having discharged the King's geld. So his men say, but the men of the shire-moot (scira) do not bear out the evidence of the sheriff (nan portant testimonium vicecomiti) because it was always free (quieta) of geld and other (dues) to the King (erga regem), as long as (the soke- man) held it, according to the testimony of the hundred(-moot). In the same vill Alward holds of Peter half a virgate. There is land for i ox to plough. Its value has always been 16 pence. This land a certain woman held of Almar. In SEUECHAMPE [Sacomb] Peter holds 9 hides less i virgate. There is land for 7 ploughs. In the demesne are 6 hides, and there are 3 ploughs there, and there could be a fourth. There 5 villeins and (cum) 6 bor- dars and i cleric have 3 ploughs. There are 6 cottars and 4 serfs, and i mill worth (de) 2O shillings. Woodland is there to feed 60 swine. In all the value is and was 6 pounds ; T.R.E. 8 pounds. Four hides of this manor Elmasr held as I manor, according to the witness of the hundred (court), and Lewin held 2 hides less i virgate as i manor. He was a man of earl Harold and could sell. In the manor which Elmer held were 4 sokemen. One of these held hide and could sell ; another held i virgate, but could not sell without the consent of Elmaer, his lord. The third and fourth held hide all but 6 acres and could sell. Over these two king Edward held sake and soke, and each rendered to the sheriff ^ of an 'avera' (carrying of of a load) yearly or I penny. These 4 were men of ./Elmer of Belintone. In the same manor a certain woman held 5 virgates under Anschil of Waras [Ware], and could sell all except i virgate, which she mortgaged (posuit in vadimonid) with Aimer of Belintone for 10 shillings ; and she used to provide i ' avera ' and of another or 5 pence. IN EDWINESTREU [DWINSTREE] HUNDRET In ICHETONE [Layston] B Humfrey holds of Peter hide. There is land for i plough, and this is there, with 2 bordars. Meadow is there sufficient for 2 oxen. This land is worth 15 shillings ; when received it was worth 10 shillings ; T.R.E. 20 shillings. Elmer of Belintone [Bennington] held this land and could sell. Peter himself holds STAKES [? Stone(bury)]. 4 It is assessed at i hide and a half. There is land for a plough and a half-plough. One plough is there, and a half-plough could be added. There are i villein and (cum] 4 bordars. It is worth 15 shillings ; when received it was worth 10 shillings ; T.R.E. 40 shillings. Four sokemen held this land ; I of these, the King's reeve (prepositus), had half a hide and took possession of the lands of the other three to the injury of king William, according to the testimony of the whole shire. He used to give of custom yearly 4 pence and i half- penny. Peter the sheriff 5 now holds it. IN ODESEI [ODSEY] HUNDRET In ESCEWELLE [Ashwell] Peter holds 2 hides as i manor. There is land for 6 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 virgates, and there are on it 2 ploughs ; and 8 villeins and A manor in Little Munden. MS. defective (?). 337 3 See p. 310, note 4. 8 Peter de Valognes. Z
 * Between Layston and Braughing (J.H.R.).