THE HOLDERS OF LANDS
Uctred held Leiate [Lydiate]. There (are) 6 bovates of land. Wood(land) 1 league long and 2 furlongs broad. It was worth 64 pence.
Two thegns held 6 bovates of land as 2 manors in Holand [Downholland]. It was worth 2 shillings.
Uctred held Acrer [Altcar]. There (is) half a carucate of land. It was waste.
Teos held Bartune [Barton]. There (is) 1 carucate of land. It was worth 32 pence.
Chetel held Heleshale [Halsall]. There (are) 2 carucates of land. It was worth 8 shillings.
All this land used to pay geld (geldabat), and 15 manors[1] used to render nothing to King Edward save geld.
This manor of Derbei [West Derby] with these aforesaid hides used to render to King Edward 26 pounds and 2 shillings of farm (de firma). Of these 3 hides were free, the rent (censum) of which he pardoned to the thegns who held them. These used to render 4 pounds and 14 shillings and 8 pence.
All these thegns had by custom to render 2 ores of pence for each carucate of land, and by custom used to make the king's houses and (the things) which appertained thereto (ibi pertinebant) as the villeins (did), and the fisheries (piscarias) and the enclosures (haias) in the wood, and the deer hays (stabilituras); and (he) who went not to these (tasks) when he ought paid a fine of (emendabat) 2 shillings and afterwards came to the work and laboured until it was completed.
Each one of them sent his reapers one day in August to cut the king's crops. If not he paid a fine of 2 shillings.
If any free man committed theft, or 'forsteal' (forestel), or 'hámfare' (heinfara), or broke the king's peace, he paid a fine of 40 shillings.
If any committed bloodshed (faciebat sanguinem), or rape (raptum de femina), or if he (qui) remained away from the 'shiremote' (siremot) without reasonable excuse, he paid a fine of 10 shillings. If he remained away from the hundred (court) or went not to a plea when the reeve (prepositus) ordered, he paid a fine of 5 shillings.
If (the reeve) ordered anyone (cui) to go upon his service and he went not, he paid a fine of 4 shillings.
If anyone wished to withdraw from the king's land, he gave 40 shillings and went whither he wished.
If anyone wished to have the land of his deceased father, he paid a relief (relevabat) of 40 shillings; (he) who would not, the king had both the land and all the goods (pecuniam) of the deceased father.
Uctred held Crosebi [Little Crosby] and Chirchedele [Kirkdale] as one hide, and it was quit from every due except these 6: breach of the peace (pace infracta), forsteal, 'hámfare,' and a fray (pugna) which continued after oath made (to desist), and if (when) bound by the reeve's judgment (constrictus justicia prepositi) he did (not) pay anyone a debt, and if he did not observe the term given by the reeve; (for) these (offences) he paid a fine of 40 shillings. But he paid the king's geld (geldum) like (sicut) the men of the country.
In Otringemele [North Meols], and Herleshala [Halsall], and Hiretun [Hurleton] there were 3 hides quit from the geld (geldum) of carucates of land and from the forfeiture of bloodshed (sanguinis) and ravishment (violentia) of a woman. But they rendered all other dues.
These men now hold land of this manor of Derbei [West Derby] by the gift of Roger the Poitevin:—Geoffrey[2] 2 hides and half a carucate of land, Roger[3] 1½ hide, William[4] 1½ hide, Warin[5] half a hide, Geoffrey[6] 1 hide, Tetbald 1½ hide, Robert 2 carucates of land, Gilbert 1 carucate of land.[7]
These have in demesne 4 ploughs and 46 villeins, and 1 radman and 62 bordars, and 2 serfs and 3 bondwomen. Between (inter) (them) all they have 24 ploughs.
Their wood(land is) 3½ leagues long and 1½ league and 40 perches broad,[8] and there (are) 3 eyries of hawks.
- ↑ Those enumerated in the ten preceding paragraphs, commencing with Erengermeles.
- ↑ Perhaps Roger of Poitou's sheriff, and predecessor of Godfrey who was sheriff in 1094. The fee might consist of 1 hide in Walton, 4 car. in Garston, 2 car. elsewhere, and ½ car. belonging to the church of Walton.
- ↑ Possibly 1 hide in Sefton, 2 car. in Toxteth, and 1 car. in Thornton. He was probably Roger de Mountbegon. (See the Introduction.)
- ↑ William Fitz Nigel, lord of Halton, co. Chester. This fee consisted of the greater part of Ughtred's manors in Roby, Knowsley, Kirkby, etc., and subsequently formed part of the 'fee of the constable of Chester' within the co. of Lancaster, also known as the fee of Widnes.
- ↑ Possibly Warin Bussel, and the fee the manor of Kirkdale, which was afterwards a member of the Bussels' barony of Penwortham.
- ↑ 'Goisfridus homo Rogeri' occurs in the survey of Roger of Poitou's Lincolnshire fees as tenant of Osgodby. Dom. Bk. i. f. 352.
- ↑ Robert and Gilbert were possibly officers of Roger's household.
- ↑ These particulars confirm the suggested identities of the fees created by Roger before 1086. The bulk of the woodland in the chief manor of West Derby and in Ughtred's manors lay between Walton on the west and the boundary of this hundred on the east, and between Lathom on the north and Huyton on the south.
