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 HOLDERS OF LANDS And the church of Saints Simon and Jude Almar the bishop held T.R.E. afterwards Erfast, now William. To this belong {adjacent) three parts of a mill and half an acre of meadow and I messuage, and it is not of the bishopric, but of the patrimony of Almar the bishop. In the borough he (William) has 2 acres of meadow belonging to the bishopric, and they are worth 20 shillings. Ewicman held T.R.E. i-| plough- lands and 1 6 acres of pasture and 7 acres of meadow under Stigand ; now Rainald son of Ivo (holds it). Then and afterwards I plough ; now 2. Then as now it was worth 30 shillings. Of the burgesses who dwelt in the borough of Norwich 22 have gone away and dwell in Becdes, a vill of the abbot of St. Edmund's, and 6 in Humilgar hundret [Humbleyard], and have quitted [dhniserunt) the borough, and in the king's (manor of) Torp [Thorpe] I, and on the land of Roger Bigot i, and under W. de Noie[r]s i , and Richard de Sentcler i. Those fleeing and the others remaining have been entirely ruined (vasiati) partly by reason of the forfeitures of Earl Ralf, partly by reason of a fire, partly by reason of the king's geld, partly by Waleram. In this borough the bishop can have I moneyer if he wishes. In the borough was a certain ruined house [vasta domus) ; this Ranulf son of Walter received of the king's gift. And Walter the deacon has I house in the borough, but it was not (there) T.R.E., and 2 men of Ralf the earl took away 2 acres of meadow from St. Sepulchre ; afterwards the priest had it again by grant of the sheriff. Ralf the earl held 14 acres of land and i i acres of meadow ; afterwards Alward of Niwetuna [Newton] held (them). f. 118. Land of the Burgesses In the Hundret of Humiliat [Humbleyard] then as now (there were) 80 acres and 14 bordars and I plough and 3 acres of meadow : and they are worth 13 shillings and 4 pence. Frenchmen [Franci) of Norwic [Norwich] In the new borough (are) 36 burgesses and 6 Englishmen [anglici), and each one used to pay of annual custom i penny besides forfeitures. Of all this the king used to have two parts and the earl the third. Now (there are) 41 French [Franci) burgesses on the demesne of the king and the earl, and Roger Bigot has 50 and Ralf de Bellafago 14, and Hermer 8 and Robert the crossbowman 5, and Fulcher the abbot's man i, and Isac i and Ralf Visus Lupi ' I : and in the earl's bakehouse (pistrino) Robert Blund has 3, and Wimer I mes- suage (which is) waste. All this land of the burgesses was in the demesne of Earl Ralf, and 1 Sir H. EUis read Fiso Lupi. he granted it to the king in common to make the borough between himself and the king, as the sheriff testifies. And all those lands as well of the knights as of the burgesses pay the king his custom. There is also in the new borough a certain church which Ralf the earl built {J'eat) and gave it to his chaplains. Now a certain priest of the sheriff's, Wala by name, holds it of the king's gift, and it is worth 60 shillings ; and as long as Robert Blund held the county he had therefrom i ounce of gold every year. Est Hundret of Flec [East Flegg] Gernemwa [Yarmouth, (Great)] was held by King Edward. Then as now 70 burgesses. Then it was worth, with 2 parts of the soke of 3 hundrets, 18 pounds by talc, and the earl's part was 9 pounds by tale. Now the king's 2 parts are worth 17 pounds and 16 shillings and 4 pence f. ii8b. blanch, and the earl's part 10 pounds blanch. And the sheriff has 4 pounds and i hawk of the land [acciptrem terref for a fine {de gersumma) : these 4 pounds the burgesses give freely {gratis) and of goodwill {de amicitia). In the same (town) T.R.E. Ailmar the bishop had a certain church of St. Benet ; now W[illiam] the bishop has the same (church) as of his bishopric, and it is worth 20 shillings. The whole pays 12 pence for geld. Hundret of Tetford [Thetford] In Tetford [Thetford] is the church of St. Mary, which Stigand the archbishop held. Now the sons of Arfast the bishop (hold it). To this church belong now as then 4 churches, St. Peter's, St. John's, St. Martin's, St. Margaret's, and 6 ploughlands, less half a bovate. Then (there were) 2 ploughs, now I. Then as now 5 burgesses and 2 vacant messuages and 12 acres of meadow. And 3 ploughs could be restored, and 2 plough(lands) remain in pasture {in pasture). Then as now 35 sheep, and it is worth 40 shillings. Of the king's land in Tetford [Thetford], on the Norfolk side of the river {ultra aquam versus Norfolc) is I league {leugata) of land in length and half (a league) in breadth, of which the king has 2 parts, a third part belongs to the earldom {in con- sulatu). Of the above league {superiori leugata) R[oger] Bigot (has) the third part. All this land is as to a moiety arable ; the other (moiety is) in pasture. On this land the king has I plough and 3 bordars and i serf and I horse. And of 2 mills the king has 2 parts and the earl {consul) the third. The king has also 2 parts of the third mill, and of these 2 parts the earl has a third. On the ^ i.e., An English as distinguished from a Norway or Irish hawk. See Diahgus de Scaccario ii, p. xxv. 47