A HISTORY OF ESSEX time of King Edward 4 free men with (de) 4 hides which rendered customary dues. Now fo. 3 Robert son of Corbutio holds 3 hides l and Hugh de Montfort the fourth hide * ; they have not paid the customary due since they had them. And moreover the same Robert (son of Corbutio) holds 4^ hides which used to be held by a free man as appurtenant to (ad) this manor in the time of King Edward. 3 There was also appurtenant (attinebat) I sokeman with (de) 30 acres who rendered the customary due ; and now John son of Waleram holds (it). And this manor was worth 36 pounds in the time of King Edward ; now 40 ; and Peter the sheriff receives from it 80 pounds rent (de censu) and 10 pounds fine (gersuma).* To this manor there belong 20 acres lying in LOCHETUNA [Loughton], which were held in the time of King Edward by Harold's reeve ; now the king's reeve holds (them) ; and they are worth 40 pence. HUNDRET OF DoMMAWA [DUNMOW] In SCELDA [Shellow (Bowells)] (are) 3 sokemen with (de) 35 acres, and this is worth 3 shillings and 10 pence. HUNDRET OF WITBRICTESHERNA [DENGIE] In LESSENDUNA [Latchingdon] Alwin', a free man, held in the time of King Edward half a hide and 30 acres. Afterwards Tedric Pointel seized (invasit) it ; and now the king has it. Then as now (semper) half a plough ; and it is worth 15 shillings. Of the same estate (terra) I villein holds 30 acres at (ad) Estolleia [ ] and it is worth 5 shillings ; and another villein 1 5 acres, and it is worth 3 shillings. And 3 men hold half a hide and 10 acres, and (there is) half a plough ; it was then worth 8 shillings ; now 5 shillings and 4 pence. In LACENDUNA [Latchingdon] Lewin', a free man, (held) 30 acres in the time of King Edward. (There was) then half a plough ; 1 These would seem to be the 3 hides at Leyton (Leintuna) which Domesday enters under the fief of Robert son of Corbutio (p. 546), explaining that they had been held by 8 sokemen who had ren- dered and who were still rendering (?) their cus- tomary dues to the king's manor of Havering (HaveRngee). 2 This was certainly one of the 3| hides held by Hugh at Leyton, of which we read (p. 497) that this hide used to pay the customary due to Havering, but did so no longer. 3 These 4^ hides were similarly at Leyton (see p. 546) and are entered as having been held by Harold. 4 Consideration money for the lease. now none. It was then worth 8 shillings ; now 5 (shillings) and 4 pence. In the same (place) there were 8 free men in the time of King Edward ; now (there are) 4 with (de) 52 acres ; (this) was then worth 8 shillings ; now 4 shillings and 4 pence. In RODINGES [(White) Roding] Golstan, a sokeman of King William, holds I hide and has never rendered service or customary due for it, and therefore he has given pledge (idea dedit vadem). 6 In this hide there is I plough on the demesne, and i bordar and 3 serfs. (There is) wood(land) for 10 swine (and) 10 acres of meadow. It was then worth 20 shillings ; now 30. fo. 3b HUNDRET OF ODELESFORDA [UTTLESFORD] CESTREFORDA [(Great) Chesterford] was held by Earl Edgar (sic) 6 in the time of King Edward as i manor and as 10 hides. Now Picot the sheriff 7 (has the custody of it) in the king's hand(s). Then as now (semper) 4 ploughs on the demesne. Then the men had 1 8 ploughs ; afterwards and now 14. Then as now (sem- per) 24 villeins, and 13 bordars, and 6 serfs. (There is) wood(land) for 1,000 swine, (and) 1 5 acres of meadow. Then as now (semper) 2 mills. There belongs to (jacet) this manor l hides in Cambridgeshire (cantebruge scira); 8 then as now (there were there) 7 villeins and 3 bordars, and a mill, and 3 ploughs belonging to the men. All this was worth then 24 pounds ; afterwards and now 30. In the demesne of this manor are 2 rounceys (runcini), and 7 beasts (animalia), and 6 1 swine, and 8 1 sheep, and 87 goats. To this manor there belonged (adjacebat) in the time of King Edward i^ hides which Hardwin 'de Sca- lariis' holds, but by what right (quomodo) the Hundred (court) knows not. The half hide was of the demesne, and on it dwelt one man ; and the other (sic) hide was held by a sokeman who used to render his soke dues (reddebat socam) in the king's manor. 9 6 See Introduction, p. 412. 6 See ibid. p. 337 and p. 431, note 4, below. 7 Of Cambridgeshire. 8 This must have been at Histon, Cambs, to the north of Cambridge. Domesday expressly states (i. 189^) that Picot had there i hides ' of the manor of Chesterford,' which were taxed in their Cambridgeshire Hundred, but ' appraised in Essex.' 9 These two holdings were probably the ' half hide ' at Babraham held under Hardwin by Du- rand, of which Domesday observes : ' Hec terra est de feudo regis,' and the ' I hide ' at Histon held of Hardwin by Durand (fo. 198), which had been held by Estred ' under Earl 430
