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 A HISTORY OF SUSSEX shillings, Girold 2 yielding 6 shillings, Ansgot 3 yielding I2 pence, Bernard 2 yielding 7 pence, Ralph 2 yielding 12 pence, Alan 6 yielding 4 shillings, Ralph 3 yielding 53 pence, Azelin 3 yielding 4 shillings. This last [ipse) holds I house yielding 32 pence and a plot of land [parum terre) yielding 3 shillings. Walter (has) 2 burgesses yielding 16 pence, Roger 2 yielding 12 pence, Hugh I yielding 8 pence. The count has l mill yielding {de) 20 shillings. Alvred* has from the pasturage [herbagio) 15 shillings and 4 pence. In Borne [Eastbourne] Hundred The Count of Mortain holds in demesne Borne [Eastbourne]. King Edward held it. There were and are 46 hides. There is land for 28 ploughs. On the demesne are 4 ploughs, and (there are) 68 villeins and 3 bordars with 28 ploughs. There (is) i mill yielding [de] 5 shillings, and 16 saltpans yielding [de) 4 pounds and 40 shillings, and 25 acres of meadow. From the pasturage [pastura) (come) 6 pounds. Of the land of this manor 2 hides and i virgate are in the rape of Hasting(s).'' Of the same land William holds I hide, Alvred i hide, the warders of the castle (of Pevensey) [custodes castelli) 2 hides,^ Roger the clerk 3 virgates. On the demesne is I plough and a half, and (there are) 2 villeins and 6 bordars with half a plough. In the time of King Edward it rendered one night's ferm. When the count received it (it rendered) 30 pounds. Now his demesne (renders) 40 pounds, that of his men 67 shillings. In Totenore [Totnore] Hundred The count himself holds in demesne Bed- dingha(m) [Beddingham]. King Edward held it. Then it was assessed for 52^ hides. Now for 50 hides. One hide and a half and half 1 Alvred ' the butler ' who held largely in several counties and appears to have been the ancestor of the family of Montague. 2 Of this I hide and a half was in Henhurst Hundred (see p. 403) ; with this possibly went half a hide of Berwick (see note 7, p. 403) and i vir- gate of the half hide belonging to Berwick and Claverham (see p. 404). 3 This is the ' terra vigUlum de Pevenesel de Monte Acuta'' of the Pipe Rolls of Henry II. (compare note 10, p. 410) ; probably it is Montague in Pevensey Level. In the thirteenth century the family of Brade held lands in Eastbourne and Southeye by service of guarding the outer gate of Pevensey Castle, which was most likely the same land. a virgate are in the rape of Hasting(s)*. There is land for 33 ploughs. On the demesne are 4 ploughs, and (there are) 68 villeins and 6 bordars with 34 ploughs. There (are) 5 serfs, and 4 saltpans yielding [de) 40 pence, and 50 acres of meadow, and wood(land yielding) 30 swine from the pannage. From the pastur- age [herbagio) (come) 35 shillings. Of the land of this manor Godfrey holds 4 hides, Gilbert I hide and a half. On (their) demesne they have 3^ ploughs, and 1 5 bor- dars with half a plough, and a mill yielding [de) 8 shillings. In the time of King Edward it rendered one night's ferm [firmam unius metis). When the count received it (it rendered) 20 pounds. Now what the count has (renders) 30 pounds, what the men (have) 6 pounds. (In Eastbourne Hundred) * Walter holds of the count Eshalle [East- hall ']. Two free men held it and could betake themselves [ire) whither they would. Then, as [et) now, it was assessed for 3 hides. There is land for 3 ploughs. On the de- mesne is I plough, with i villein and 8 bor- dars who have i plough. There (are) 2 acres of meadow. In the time of King Edward it was worth 50 shillings, and afterwards 30 (shillings) ; now 40 shillings. The same Walter holds Bevringetone [Bcierington^]. Two men held it of King Edward and could betake themselves [ire) whither they pleased. It was assessed for 3 hides then, as [ei) now. There is land for 3 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 (ploughs), and 2 bordars have half a plough. In the time of King Edward it was worth 50 shillings, and afterwards 30 shillings ; now 40 shillings. In Totenore [Totnore] Hundred Haiminc holds of the count Clotintone [ 8j g^d he himself held it of King < One hide and a half ' in Belingeham ' in Hawkshorough Hundred (see note 4, p. 400). 6 The two Hundreds of Eastbourne and Tot- nore are mixed together. " This was one of the ' boroughs ' of Eastbourne in the thirteenth century, and was near the present town-hall. (See article by Rev. W. Hudson, F.S.A. on, 'The Hundred of Eastbourne and its Boroughs,' in Sussex Arch. Coll. vol. 42.) ' Another of the Eastbourne ' boroughs,' on the borders of Eastbourne and Willingdon. 8 If this had not immediately followed the fresh heading of Totnore I should have identified it with Cholington, a third of the Eastbourne 40S