[DERBISCIRE] fo. IN THE BOROUGH OF DERBY, in King Edward's time, there were 247 resident burgesses (burgenses manentes), and there belong to this borough 1 2 carucates of land (assessed) to the geld, which 8 teams can plough. This land was divided among 41 burgesses who also had 12 ploughs. To the king belonged two parts and to the earl the third of rent (censti) and toll (tbeloneo) and forfeiture (forisfactura) and of every customary due (consuetudine) . In the same borough there was i church in the king's demesne with j clerks who held 2 carucates of land freely in Cestre [Little Chester 1 ]. There was also another church similarly the king's, belonging to which 6 clerks held gbovates of land likewise freely in Cornun [?Quarndon] and Detton [? Little Eaton]." In the vill (villa) itself there were 14 mills. Now there are 100 burgesses there and 40 other lesser ones (minores). 103 tenements (mans'} are waste which used to pay rent. There are now 10 mills and 16 acres of meadow. Underwood (silva minuta) 3 furlongs in length and 2 in breadth. In King Edward's time it rendered 24 pounds in all (inter totunf) ; now with the mills and the vill of Lude- cerce [Litchurch] it renders 30 pounds. M. In Ludecerce [Litchurch] the king has 2 carucates of land (as- sessed) to the geld. (There is) land for 3 ploughs. There i sochman and 9 villeins have 2 ploughs and 12 acres of meadow. In Derby the abbey of Bertone [Burton] has i mill and i messuage (masuram terrce) 3 with sac and soc, and 2 dwellings of which the king has the soc, and 1 3 acres of meadow. Geoffrey Alselin has I church which belonged to Tochi. Ralf son of Hubert (has) i church which belonged to Levric with I carucate of land. Norman of Lincolia [Lincoln] (has) i church which belonged to Brun. Edric has there i church which belonged to Coin his father. Earl Hugh (of Chester) has 2 messuages and i fishery with sac and soc. Henry de Ferrariis 3 messuages with sac and soc likewise. Osmer the priest has i bovate of land with sac and soc. 1 Adjoining Derby.
- A passage in the Hundred Rolls makes these identifications almost certain. It is possible that in
the original return 'Corndun* and 'Etton' were bracketed and the 'd' in the former omitted and being afterwards interlined was misread as the initial letter of the latter. 3 This difficult phrase seems equivalent to the more usual ' mansio' and it is important as showing that the ' mansio ' or ' tnasura ' was not merely a house. Indeed from the description of Nottingham (fo. 280) it appears that several houses might be situated in one ' mansio,' which thus seems to represent the land immediately surrounding the normal dwelling of a burgess as distinguished from his actual house on the one hand and from any share which he might have in the arable lands of the borough on the other. 327
