A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE and its appraising belongs here (hie apprecianda est). 1 There is land for 12 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 hides, and there are 4 ploughs on it ; and I 5 villeins and (cum) a priest have 6 ploughs, and there could be 2 more. There are 2 bordars and i cottar and 8 serfs, and i mill worth 5 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team and a half-plough team, pasture sufficient for the live stock of the vill, woodland to feed 500 swine. Its total value is 22 pounds ; when received 20 pounds ; T.R.E. 25 pounds. Wlwen held this manor of the abbot of St. Albans on the day when king Edward was living and died. He could not separate it from that church (mittere extra ecdesiam), to which it ought to have returned after his death so the hundred court testifies. IN HERTFORD HUNDRET In ODESDONE [? Hoddesdon] Edward holds 4 hides less 30 acres. There is land for 3 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 hides, and there is I plough on it ; and 4 villeins and 2 bordars have I plough between them, and there could be another. There are 5 cottars and 2 serfs. Meadow is there sufficient for 4 plough, teams,* woodland to feed 20 swine ; from the fishery (is received) 150 eels. It is worth 60 shillings ; when received it was worth 30 shillings ; T.R.E. 60 shillings. Gode held this manor of queen Eddid and could sell. XXXIII. THE LAND OF GEOFFREY DE MANNEVILE IN DANEIS [DACORUM] HUNDRET Geoffrey de Mannevile holds in TITEBERST [Titeberst 3 ] and Ralf holds of him 3 virgates. There is land for a half-plough. There are I fo. i3gb villein and I bordar, and woodland to feed 1 2 swine. It is and was worth 5 shillings ; T.R.E. 10 shillings. Three sokemen held this land. Two of these were Asgar the staller's men, the third a man of St. Alban ; he could not sell, but the other two could. Geoffrey himself holds BISSEI [Bushey]. It 1 That is to say, that for fiscal purposes one of the hides was in Tring Hundred, but that the whole estate is here valued together (J.H.R.).
- If the scribe has made no mistake, there was
meadow for one team more than required, an anomalous entry (J.H.R.). 3 See p. 308, note 4. is assessed at 15 hides. There is land for 10 ploughs. 4 In the demesne are 5 hides, and there are 2 ploughs on it, and there could be a third. Ten villeins and (cum) i Frenchman and 8 bordars have 5 ploughs, and there could be a sixth. There are 2 mills worth 8 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed 1,000 swine. Its whole value is and was i o pounds ; T.R.E. 15 pounds. Lewin, a thegn of king Edward's, held this manor. There is a sokeman who was not there in king Edward's time ; he holds i hide. He was one of queen Eddid's men T.R.E. and could sell. Geoffrey himself holds SENLAI [Shenley]. It is assessed at 8 hides and 3 virgates. There is land for 9 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 hides, and there are 2 ploughs on it. Twelve villeins there have 4 ploughs, and there could be 3 more. Meadow is there sufficient for I plough, pasture sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed 600 swine. Its whole value is 4 pounds ; when received it was 5 pounds ; T.R.E. 8 pounds. Asgar held this manor, and there 2 sokemen, men of his, had I hide and 3 virgates and could sell. IN ALBANESTOU [CASHIO] HUNDRET In CHAISSOU [Cassio(bury)] Turold holds of Geoffrey I hide. There is land for i plough, but it is not there. Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, and woodland to feed 30 swine. It is and was worth 5 shil- lings ; T.R.E. 2O shillings. Alwin the huntsman, one of queen Eddid's men, held this manor and could sell. Geoffrey attached it to Bissei [Bushey], to which it did not belong T.R.E. IN BRADEWATRE [BROADWATER] HUNDRET In DICHELESWELLE [Digswell] Torchil holds of Geoffrey 2 hides. There is land for 8 ploughs and a half-plough. On the demesne are 2, and 12 villeins with 3 bordars have 6 ploughs and a half-plough. There are 4 cottars and 2 serfs, and i mill and a half-mill (unum molendinum et dimidium) worth 8 shil- lings and 8 pence. Pasture is there sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed too swine. In all the value is 4 pounds ; when received it was 50 shillings ; T.R.E. 4 pounds. The same man who holds it now held it T.R.E. He was one of Asgar the staller's men and could sell. 4 But the details only allow land for 9 ploughs. Compare the Sandon case on p. 317, note i (J.H.R.). 330
