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 THE HOLDERS OF LANDS habited {hospitate) and 20 uninhabited {inhos- p'ltate), from which the king receives 26 shillings and 6 pence, and of this (money) William de Warene receives half. In the time of King Edward the whole was worth 26 pounds. The king had (one) half and the earl the other. Now it is worth 34 pounds, and from the new mint 112 shillings. Of all this William has (one) half and the king the other. In the rape of Pevenesel [Pevensey] William do Warene has 12 burgages [nwnsu- ras), 7 inhabited {hospitains) and 5 not. (They belong) to [in) Lestun [Laughton] a manor of the count of Mortain.^ In Soneberge [Swanborough] Hundred William de Warene holds in demesne NiwoRDE [Iford]. Queen Edith [Eddid) held it. In the time of King Edward it was assessed for 77^ hides. When William re- ceived it (there were) only 58 hides, because the others were within the rape of the Count of Mortain.* These 58 hides are assessed now for 36 hides. There is land for 52 ploughs. On the demesne are 5 ploughs, and 97 villeins (100 vUlani 3 m'nius) and 32 bordars have 34 ploughs. There (is) a church, and 6 serfs, and 2 mills yielding {de) 23 shil- lings, and 208 acres of meadow. Wood- (land yielding) 30 swine. In the borough of Lewes (are) 26 burgesses yielding [de) 13 shillings.^ From the pasture (come) 15 shil- lings and 8 pence and 16 thousands of herrings. Of this land the monks of St. Pancras^ XII. THE LAND OF WILLIAM DE WARENE The Borough of Lewes in the time of King Edward returned 6 pounds and 4 shil- lings and 3 halfpence from the burgage-rents [de gablo) and from the market-dues [de theolo- neo). There King Edward had 127 burgesses in demesne. The customary service they rendered was [eorum comuetudo erat) : If the king wished to send his men to patrol the sea without going himself, they collected from all the men, whosever land it was, 20 shillings, and this money those had who were in charge of the arms in the ships.' Whoever sells a horse in the borough gives to the reeve a penny [nummum) and the buyer (gives) another ; for an ox a halfpenny ; for a man, in whatever place he may buy him within the rape, 4 pence. He who sheds blood pays a fine of [emendat per) 7 shillings and 4 pence. A man who commits adultery or rape pays a fine of 8 shillings and 4 pence, and a woman the same. The king has the penalty from the adulterous man, the archbishop from the woman. From a fugitive, if he be retaken, 8 shil- lings and 4 pence. When the mint is renewed, each moneyer gives 20 shillings.^ Of all these (payments) two-thirds [partes) were' the king's and the third (was) the earl's. Now the borough returns in all [j)er omnia) as much as it did then [sicut tunc) and 38 shillings in addition [de superphu). [Pevensey]" (are) 39 burgages [mamure) in- hold 6^ hides, and there they have on (their) demesne 2 ploughs and 10 villeins with 3 » &i rex ad mare custodiendum sine se mittere suos voluisset, de omnibus homimbus cujuscunque terra fuisset coUigebant xx solidos and hos habebant qui in navibus arma custodiebnnt. (See Introd. p. 382.) 2 This is rather a puzzling phrase ; it may refer to the issue of new dies for the coinage, or, as seems more liiiel).-, to the ( ? annual) renewal of the licence to coin. The question is further com- plicated by the entry lower down of I I 2 shillings de nova moneta ; this would seem to be the pay- ment due from (? all, or each of) the moneyers in 1086, the other being the pre-Conquest payment. The use of the present tense in this and the pre- ceding entries can be explained by their having been copied from some pre-Conquest document (compare next note). 3 Sunt altered to eraiit (see last part of preceding note). which is separated from the remainder of the borough by the river, which also forms the division between the rapes. ploughs. These hides do not pay geld. Of the same land Hugh ^ has 2 hides and 5 This also probably refers to Cliffe. Although this is the only case mentioned in Domesday of a manor in Pevensey rape h.aving burgages, or haws, in Lewes it is possible that there were others, as an extent of West Firle, in the Burrell MSS., mentions a messuage in Cliffe as belonging to the manor. 6 Of these 19^ hides, 8 were probably at Frog Firle (see note 3, p. 413), with which went half a hide in Parrock (see p. 41 5). As land of the manor of Beddingham in Hawksborough Hundred is said to have been held by Queen Edith (see p. 400) the other 1 1 hides may have been absorbed into Bed- dingham manor. ' The suburb of Westout in Swanborough Hundred. 8 The priory of Lewes. 9 Hugh fitz-Golde gave the church of Iford and tithes there to Lewes Priory. 435
 * Belonging to [de) the rape of Pevenesel
 * This possibly refers to the suburb of ClifFe,