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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE XLIII THE LAND OF HUGH DE GRENTEMAISNIL'S WIFE IN HERTFORD HUNDRET Adeliz, wife of Hugh de Grentmaisnil, holds BROCHESBORNE [Broxbourne]. It is assessed at 5^ hides. There is land for 6 ploughs. In she demesne are 3 hides and 3 virgates, and i plough is on it. There 4 villeins and (cum) a priest and i sokeman and 2 bordars have 5 ploughs. There are 2 serfs, and i mill worth 8 shillings. Meadow is there (produc- ing) 6 shillings and 4 pence from the hay, pasture is there sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed 200 swine. The total value is 4 pounds ; when received it was 60 shillings ; T.R.E. 7 pounds. Archbishop Stigand held this manor, and there was i sokeman, man and reeve (preporitui) of the same Archbishop. He had half a hide and could sell. XLIV. THE LAND OF THE DAUGHTER OF RALPH TULGEBOS IN BRACHINGES [BRAUGHING] HUNDRET The daughter of Ralf Tailgebosch holds in HODESDONE [Hunsdon] 4 hides of the fee of Hugh de Beauchamp (Belcamp). There is land for 5 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 hides, and there is i plough, and another could be added. There 4 villeins with a priest and a Frenchman and 8 bordars have 2 ploughs (between them), and there could be a third. There are 2 cottars and 3 serfs, and i mill worth (de) 10 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 5 plough teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock, woodland for 40 swine, and 10 pence from the pannage. The total value is and was 70 shillings ; T.R.E. 6 pounds. Lewin, one of earl Harold's men, held this manor and could sell, and of this land Alwin of Godton, a man of king Edward's, held i hide and could sell. Ralf Tailgebosc took it from Stanestede [Stanstead Abbots] and attached it to this manor. 1 1 See p. 326, note 7 above, where it is shown that this hide is there stated by the Survey to have been attached to ' Honesdone.' As Hod- desdon is in the Hundred of Hertford, while Hunsdon is in that of Braughing, and, moreover, adjoins Stanstead, there can be no question that the scribe has written ' Hodesdone ' for ' Hones- done' in this entry by mistake. Confirmation is afforded by the fact that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries lands are found in Hunsdon held of the Beauchamp fee (J.H.R.). 344