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 A HISTORY OF SUSSEX evidently entailing greater expense : possibly it was a render of food which had to be sent to the lord wherever he might be. The whole render bears a considerable resemblance to the rent in kind paid by certain royal manors, and known as the 'farm of one day,' already referred to. The entry continues : ' Now, between the borough and the port of the river, and the ship-dues it pays 12 pounds, and yet it is worth 13 pounds.' There was also here, as at Pevensey and Lewes, a market, of which Robert son of Tetbald, as sheriff of the honour, had the dues ' from men outside the liberty [de hominibus extraneis).^ In all the boroughs there were besides the demesne burgesses, that is to say those whose payments were made to the lord of the borough, a greater or less number whose burgages while no doubt giving their share towards the common payments of the borough yet belonged to some other lord. Thus at Pevensey, where there had been in the Confessor's day only twenty-four demesne burgesses, the Bishop of Chichester had had five others, and the priests Edmer, Ormer and Doda twenty-three between them. At the time of the survey, when the Count of Mortain had sixty demesne burgesses, another fifty were in the hands of certain of his sub-tenants. The terms ' burgess,' ' burgage [masurd) ', and ' haw, or close {hagd) ' equate one another, and for the purposes of Domesday are equivalent to ' a rent ' — which fluctuates but averages about jd. — thus at Arundel the scribe with his love of variety writes : ' Morin has a customary payment of 1 2 pence from 2 burgesses ; Ernald has a burgess paying {de) 12 pence ; Ralph a haw of 12 pence; Nigel 5 haws which do service.' The render of service or work by burgage tenants occurs again on a large scale in Steyning, where the only details given are that ' there were in the borough 1 1 8 burgages {masure) which used to pay 4 pounds and 2 shillings; now there are 123 burgages, and they pay 100 shilHngs and 100 pence and have i| ploughs; they used to perform works at the manor-court {ad curiam operabantur) like villeins in the time of king Edward.' Mr. Ballard points out that it is probable that all the non-demesne burgages, or at least most of them, were appurtenant to certain manors in the neighbourhood. This system of the attachment of a close within the borough to a manor in the same district is particularly noticeable in the case of Lewes and Chichester ; in the former thirty-five manors held between them 258 burgages in Lewes, the largest numbers being Iford and Patcham with twenty-six each. South Mailing with twenty-one, and Barcombe with eighteen. In the city of Chichester 142 burgages were held by forty- three manors, the bishop's manors accounting for thirty-five, with an additional ten granted to him by the king from his manor of Bosham.' The possession of burgesses and houses appurtenant to various rural manors is, in Domesday, one of the features of a county town, and ' Ballard, The Domesday Boroughs, 19, 39. 384