A HISTORY OF SUSSEX and I cottar with 4 ploughs, and 3 saltpans yielding [de) 30 pence. It is worth 4 pounds. The same Robert holds of tlie earl Gar- INGES [Goring]. It was an outlying estate {herewica) of King Edward.* There (are) 6 hides. They have never paid geld. There is land for 7 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 20 villeins and 12 cottars with 5 ploughs. It was worth, then as now [semper), 4 pounds. Robert holds of the earl Garinges [Gor- ing]. Godwin, a free man, held it in the time of King Edward. Then it was assessed for 1 1 hides ; now William de Braiose has 2 hides ^ in his rape. There is land for 4 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 13 villeins and 8 cottars with 25a 2 ploughs. In the time of King Edward and afterwards, as [et) now, it was worth 100 shillings. The same Robert holds of the earl Gar- inges [Goring]. Gondrede held it of King Edward. Then it was assessed for 4 hides ; now for 2^, because i hide and a half is in the rape of William de Braiose. There is land for I plough, and there (the plough) is on the demesne, with 2 villeins, and there (are) 3 acres of meadow. In the time of King Edward and afterwards, as {et) now, it was worth 20 shillings. The same Robert holds of the earl Gar- inges [Goring]. Three free men held it in the time of King Edward. Then it was assessed for 8 hides ; now for 5^ hides ; the remainder [quod restat) is in the rape of William de Braiose.^ There is land for 3 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 6 villeins and 3 cottars with i plough, and 2 acres of meadov/. It is and was worth, then as now [semper), 40 shillings. Picot holds of the earl Wepeha(m) [Wep- ham]. Two free men held it in the time of King Edward. Then, as [et) now, it was assessed for 8 hides. There is land for 6 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 (ploughs), and a mill yielding [ele) 30 pence, and lo acres of meadow, wood(land) yielding [de) 3 ' Part of King Edw.ird's manor of Steyning (see note 4, p. 445). 2 The 3I hides mentioned in this and the next entry as being in William de Braiose's rape were in Sompting manor (see p. 448). 3 This was no doubt the ' land for 3 ploughs ' in Steyning Hundred (see p. 446). swine, and 2 fisheries yielding [de) 3 shillings, and 18 villeins and 9 cottars with 4 ploughs. In the time of King Edward it was worth 8 pounds, and afterwards 9 pounds ; now 10 pounds. (In Avisford Hundred) The abbey of Almanesches hold Clepinges [Climping] of the earl in almoigne.* Earl Godwin held it. Then, as now, it was assessed for 1 1 hides. There is land for 9 ploughs, and (there are) 26 villeins and 24 cottars with 7 ploughs. There (is) a church, and 12 acres of meadow. Wood(land yield- ing) 20 sv/ine. In the time of King Edward it was worth 20 pounds, and afterwards, as [et) now, 15 pounds. Of [In) the same manor St. Martin of Sccz [sais) holds of the earl in almoigne 1 1 hides, and for so much they were assessed in the time of King Edward, and (are) now. Earl Godwin held them. There is land for 9 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 26 villeins and 24 cottars with 7 ploughs. There (is) a church, and 12 acres of meadow, and wood(land yielding) 20 swine. In the time of King Edward it was worth 20 pounds, and afterwards, as [et) now, 15 pounds. In Hantone [Littlehampton] William holds of the earl i hide. Countess Goda held it, and it is assessed for I hide. There is land for i plough, and there (the plough) is on the demesne, with 2 cottars, and i acre of meadow. It is and was worth, then as now [semper), 10 shillings. In Berie [Bury] Hundred Robert holds of the earl Bigeneure [Big- nor], and Ralph (holds it) of him. Three free men held it in the time of King Edward. Then, as [et) now, it was assessed for 4 hides. There is land for 3 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) g villeins and 5 cottars with 2 ploughs. There (is) a church, and 2 mills yielding [de) 28 shillings and a
- The exact equality of this and the next entry
would seem to imply a recent division of the manor, and as a matter of fact the gift of half the manor of Climping to Seez was made by Earl Roger after the death of his countess in 1082, the gift to Almanesches being made presumably at the same time (CW. Doc. France, 234). 6 At Atherington, where the abbey of Seez established a cell or grange. 430
