A HISTORY OF ESSEX LXXVIII. THE LAND OF ROBERT SON OF GOBERT BELESTEDA [Belstead (Hall) 1 ] was held by 3 free men as a manor and as i % hides and 40 acres. Then as now (semper) 3 bordars, and I serf and 2 ploughs on the demesne. (There is) wood(land) for 10 swine, (and) 15 acres of meadow. It was then worth 30 shillings ; now 50. LXXIX. THE LAND OF RAINALD THE CROSSBOWMAN (BALISTARII) PHENBRUGE [(South) Fambridge*] is held by R[ainald] of the king 3 as a manor and as 3^ hides. Then as now (semper) 1 villein, and 7 bordars, and 2 ploughs on the demesne, and 2 ploughs belonging to the men. (There is) pasture for 100 sheep. It is worth now as then (semper) 100 shillings, but the monks of Ely claim it and the Hundret (court) bears witness in their favour (els testatur*). And (Rainald) seized (saisivit) half a hide adjoining (juxta) that land after the coming of King William, and it (que) is worth 30 shillings a year. LXXX. THE LAND OF GONDUIN 6 HUNDRET OF TURESTAPLA [THURSTABLE] TOLESHUNTA [Tolleshunt 6 ] was held by Alric' as a manor and as I hide. Now G[onduin] holds (it). Then as now (semper) 2 bordars. Then 4 serfs ; now 5. Then I plough ; now half a plough. It was then worth 30 shillings ; and when received it was worth 20 shillings. It is now worth 10 shillings. LXXXI. THE LAND OF OTTO 7 THE GOLDSMITH HUNDRET OF HIDINGFORT [HINCKFORD] fo. 98 GLESTINGETHORP [Gestingthorp 8 ] was held 1 A manor in Broomfield. Morant seems to have overlooked this entry, for he only gives that which relates to the Warenne portion of Belstead.
- In Rochford Hundred.
8 This expression is used to show that he did not hold it of the monks of Ely, who claimed that it belonged to them.
- The interesting pre-Domesday plea printed
in lajuisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis (p. 193) con- tains the relative passage : ' In comitatu Easexie tenet Reinaldus mills (sic) in villa que dicitur Fenbricge vi hidas et dimidiam' (belonging to Ely). 6 'Gondwinus camerarius' held in chief one manor in Suffolk. 6 An unidentified manor in the Tolleshunts.
- See Introduction (p. 351). From his descen-
dants Belchamp Otton derives its name. 8 i.e. the manor of Overhall there. by Earl ^Elfgar (Algarus) as half a hide. Now Otto holds (it) similarly. 9 Then as now (semper] 3 ploughs on the demesne, and 3 ploughs belonging to the men. Then 13 bordars ; now 16. Then as now (semper) 6 serfs. (There is) wood(land) for 60 swine, (and) 25 acres of meadow. There are 80 sheep, 32 beasts (anima/ia), 88 swine and 3 rounceys (runcini). And there were 12 sokemen in King Edward's time there are now II dwelling on (in) this manor; and they hold half a hide and 30 acres ; then as now (semper) 4 bordars (were there), and i plough, and i serf. It was then worth 10 pounds ; now 1 2 ; and when the king gave (it him), 15. LXXXII. THE LAND OF GILBERT THE PRIEST HUNDRET OF HIDINCFORT [HINCKFORD] MILDELTUNA [Middleton 10 ] was held by 9 sokemen of Earl .flLlfgar (Algar'i) as i^ hides and 28 acres. Then as now (semper) i ploughs on the demesne. (There are) 4^ acres of meadow. It is worth 20 shillings. He claims this land (as) of the Queen's gift. 11 LXXXIII. THE LAND OF GRIM THE REEVE (PREPOSITI) 18 HUNDRET OF BERDESTAPLA [BARSTABLE] In BURA [Bowers (Gifford)] Grim has 2 hides, on (in) which was i plough, with (et) 2 serfs, in King Edward's time ; but now there are 2 ploughs on the demesne, and half a plough belonging to the men, 3 villeins, 6 bordars, and 3 serfs. (There is) pasture for 100 sheep, and half a hide and 10 acres of wood(land) laid waste (vastatte silv<e). 13 And of these 2 hides one is that of (est de) men forfeited to (erga) the king, which G[rim] added to his other land after the coming of King William by means of (per) Robert Fitz Wimarc the sheriff, as G[rim] says, and all this was worth 40 shillings in King Edward's time ; now 50. In CELDEWELLA [Chadwell] Godman, a free man, held 2O acres, and made forfeit (faris- fact[us']) > and could not pay his fine (emendare). 9 i.e. at the same assessment (a strangely low one). 10 Part thereof. 11 See Introduction, p. 337. 12 He is mentioned, under the king's land, as holding 10 acres in Rochford Hundret. 13 See Introduction, pp. 376-7. This woodland clause is interlined. 564
