A HISTORY OF ESSEX HUNDRET OF WjTBRICTESHERNA [DfiNGIE] * BENFLET [Benfleet] was held by Leuard', a free man, in the time of King Edward, (and) afterwards by Tedric Pointel, as I hide. Then as now (semper) I bordar. Then I plough ; now none. Pasture for 40 sheep. Then i fishery (piscina) ; now none. And it is worth 20 shillings. fo. 4b STEPLA [Steeple] was held by Aluric, a free man, as I hide. Then I bordar ; now none. Then i plough ; now half a one. It was then worth 20 shillings ; now 1 6. In ULWINES- CHERHAM [ * ] 4 free men held (de) i hide less 6 acres in the time of King Edward ; now they are not there ; it was then worth 20 shillings; now 10 ; this land is claimed by Tedric Pointel (as his) by ex- change. Free (Franc!) men held 51 acres, and they are not included in the king's ferm (firma) 3 ; (they) were then worth 8 shillings ; now 5 ; this land is held by a servant (famulus) of the king and does not pay geld. In MEL- DUN A [Maldon] are 2 free men with (de) 10 acres ; of these Ranulf Peverel (piperellus) has 5 acres, and Hugh de Montford 5 acres ; it was then worth 10 pence, (and) now 12. Two free men, in the time of King Edward, held 6 acres and belonged to (jacuerunt in) the king's Hundret, and now Baignard has (them). In the Hundret of ROCHESFORT [Rochford] Grim the reeve holds now as then (semper) 10 acres worth 16 pence.* HUNDRET OF LASSENDENE [LEXDEN] STANEWEGA [Stan way] was held by Harold in the time of King Edward as I manor and as 5^ hides. Now the king has it as the same (pro totidem). Then 1 2 villeins ; after- wards and now 9. Then 6 bordars ; after- wards and now 9. Then as now (semper) 6 serfs and 3 ploughs on the demesne. Then the men had 1 3 ploughs ; afterwards and now 2^ (ploughs). Then as now (semper) i mill. (There is) wood(land) for 100 swine with 12 acres of meadow, 2O beasts (animalia), 59 swine, 260 sheep, and 1 1 rounceys (runcini). 1 It is very inexplicable that one should find a wrong Hundredal heading in Domesday prefixed immediately, as here, to the name of a manor. Benfleet was in Barstaple Hundred (see p. 428, note I, above).
- See Introduction, p. 391.
s i.e. the receipts from them were not included in the sum for which the king leased out the estate.
- For his holdings in Barstable Hundred see p.
564 below. There is also an outlying estate (berewita) of 2i hides and 1*3 acres called LEGRA [Layer], which belongs to (et jacet in) this manor ; then as now (semper) 7 villeins (were there), and 2 bordars, and 4 serfs, and 2 ploughs on the demesne ; then the men had 2 ploughs, and now i^. There also belongs a detached estate (berewita) called LESSENDENA [Lexden] 5 of 4 hides ; then 6 villeins were there, (and) afterwards and now 5 ; then I O bordars, (and) afterwards and now 12 ; then 4 serfs, and afterwards and now 5 ; then as now (semper) 2 ploughs on the demesne ; then the men had 4 ploughs, and now 3 ; there is wood(land) for I oo swine (with) 1 8 acres of meadow ; now (there are) 2 mills. And (there are) 16 sokemen with (de) 2 hides and 36 acres ; then as now (semper) (they had) 2^ ploughs. The whole (manor) was then worth 22 pounds ; now Peter 6 receives from it 33 pounds and fo-s 3 pounds fine (gersuma). 1 From this manor Reimund Girald' 8 took I villein with (de) half a hide, who used to render the customary due ; now as then (semper) there is there half a plough, and it is worth 10 shillings ; Nor- man held this land and rendered the customary due, but Raimund took it away and Roger (de Poitou) likewise. And Roger de Poitou (pictavensis) has taken over (accepit) I villein holding i acre. And Ingelric took away i woman, Bricteva (by name), holding 1 8 acres, and she used to render 32 pence (nommos) to the manor every year. 9 HUNDRET OF ANGRE [ONGAR] ULFELMESTUNA [Wolverston (in Chigwell)] was held by Harold as a manor and as 3 hides and 40 acres. Now King William (holds it). Then as now (semper) 4 villeins. Then 2 bordars ; now 6. Then the men had I plough between them ; now the same. (There is) wood(land) for 60 swine (with) 4 acres of meadow. It was then worth 20 shillings ; now 40. A certain free man held 20 acres in the time of King Edward ; (there was) then half a plough ; now nothing ; and it is worth 3 (shillings). He (iste) was always 5 Within the liberties of Colchester (compare p. 574 below). 6 Peter de Valognes, the sheriff. 7 Consideration money for the lease. 8 See Introduction, p. 354. 9 This is clearly the customary payment spoken of at Babraham, Belesham, and Iclinton, Cambs. (Domesday, i. 197^, 190^, 198), as 2 ounces (or<g or ores) or 32 pence. At the two latter places Domesday records it as 3 2 pence and the Inyuisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensts as 2 ounces (pp. 24, 41). 432
