THE HOLDERS OF LANDS mill. Pasture for 300 sheep. 1 Then 2 rounceys (runcini), and 6 beasts (animalia), 30 swine, (and) 300 sheep. Now 2 rounceys, and 2 colts (////), and 33 beasts, 40 swine, and 136 sheep. It was then worth 6 pounds ; now 10 pounds.* Of this manor Geoffrey fo. 44 holds half a hide ; and there is there i bor- dar, and i plough ; and it is worth 20 shil- lings in the above valuation (in eodem pretio). WACHELINGA [(Great) Wakering] is held by Suen in demesne as 5^ hides. Then as now (semper) 2 villeins, and 1 8 bordars, and 2 ploughs on the demesne ; and a third could be employed (fieri). Then 3 ploughs belong- ing to the men ; now 5. (There is) wcod- (land) for 40 swine, (and) pasture for 300 sheep. Then 4 rounceys (runcini), 9 beasts (animalia), 38 swine, (and) 115 sheep. Now 4 rounceys, 2 beasts, no sheep, (and) 27 swine. It was then worth 9 pounds ; now 10. Of this manor Garner and W[ ] hold i hide, and have 2 ploughs ; and it is worth 30 shillings in the above valuation (in eodem pretio). PRITTB WELLA [Prittlewell 8 ] is held by Suen in demesne as 7^ hides. Then 7 villeins ; now 4. Then 14 bordars ; now 23. Then 2 ploughs on the demesne ; now 3. Then 7 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 9. There is pasture* for 12 swine, (and) pasture for 200 sheep. Then 2 rounceys (runcini), 8 beasts (anima/ia), 30 swine, and IOO sheep. Now I rouncey, 3 colts (pull'i), 13 beasts, 65 swine, 196 sheep, 6 66 goats, (and) 9 hives of bees. Of this land I free man holds i virgate, which he had power to sell, but the soke 6 belonged to (jacuit in) this manor. And to the church of this manor 30 acres of another estate (terra) were added by 2 men. (The manor) was then as now (semper) worth 12 pounds. Of this manor Grapinel 7 holds 1 Compare Introduction, p. 371.
- Here again is a great increase in value, where
the details do not suggest it, and might rather lead us to expect a fall.
- i.e. the manor of Prior's Hall there.
4 ' Pastura,' evidently a scribal error for ' silva ' (i.e. wood[land]). 8 ' cc oves, iiij minus.' If, as is probable, the ' long hundred ' was meant, this would denote 236.
- The profits of jurisdiction. Compare Intro-
duction, p. 358. 7 Evidently the ancestor of Warin Grapinel who held a third of a knight's fee in Prittlewell, of the Honour of Raylcigh, temp. Henry III. (Red Book of the Exchequer, p. 739). half a hide ; and 2 bordars (are there), and I plough ; and it is worth 10 shillings in the above valuation (in eodem pretio). ESSOBERIA [Shoebury 8 ] was held by Robert Fitz Wimarc (Wimarca) after King Edward's death. 9 Now Suen (holds it) in demesne as i manor and as 5 hides. Then as now (temper) 9 villeins. Then 4 bordars ; now 6. Then as now (semper) 2 ploughs on the demesne, and 8 ploughs belonging to the men. There are 3 acres of meadow, (with) wood(land) for 20 swine. Then 2 rounceys (runcini), 4 beasts (animalia), 12 swine, (and) 100 sheep. Now 2 rounceys, 16 swine, (and) 64 sheep. Then and afterwards it was worth 6 pounds ; now IO. 10 CARENDUNA [Canewdon] is held by Suen in demesne as 6 hides and 30 acres. Then 22 villeins ; now 16. Then 2 bordars ; now 8. Then 3 serfs; now i. Then 2 ploughs on the demesne ; now 3, and a fourth could be employed (fieri). Then 10 ploughs belonging to the men ; now 6. (There is) pasture for 600 sheep. 11 Then 3 rounceys (runcini), 10 beasts (animalia), 24 swine, and 336 sheep. Now 3 rounceys, and 5 beasts, 20 swine, (and) 342 sheep. fo. 44b It was then worth 12 pounds; now 13. In this manor Hugh de Montfort (monteforti) has I hide ; and it is worth 20 shillings. Of this manor 2 Frenchmen hold (as follows) : Girold i hide, and John 30 acres ; and 3 bordars are there and i plough ; and it is worth 40 shillings in the above valuation (in eodem pretio). S[uen] has also (here) I hide, with (et) 4 bordars and i plough, which was held, in King Edward's time, by i free man, who had its soke (cum soca) ; it is worth 20 shillings. TORPEIA [(Nor)thorp 1 *], which was held by Godric, a thegn of King Edward, is held of It is hardly possible to distinguish with cer- tainty between North and South Shoebury in Domesday, for they were both held by Suain of Essex, but as South Shoebury was subsequently given by his heir to Prittlewell Priory, it was probably the manor which Suain retained in de- mesne, as entered in the text above. 9 It is possible that this is a euphemism for Harold's reign, which the Normans treated as an interregnum. 10 Here again is a great rise, for which it seems impossible to account. 11 See Introduction, p. 371. u In Southchurch. 485
