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ST. BENET OF HOLME

April

aufert quicquid Walterus tenet ⁊ quicquid habet in Tunstede hundred.^[1] Ipse etiam Walterus aufert iniuste . Ulfkitelo homini nostro de Dilham .x. acras ⁊ quendam hominem.^[2] Et in Ludham ferding in Scharstede .iii. acras quas tenuit Oswaldus . ⁊ Cnut rex dedit monasterio cum Horninga.^[3] Et apud Westwyc. ipse .R. aufert .ii^OS. sokemannos. Leffi [sic] ⁊ Howard.^[4] Et apud Thurgertonam .xx. acras quas possederunt due mulieres . Blide ⁊ Tbie [sic] ⁊ iiii. homines.^[5] Et apud Suthstede.ʼ domum Elfgari cum carrucata terre.^[6] Et Elwyne de Basingham sedet super duas acras que pertinent ad aulam de Thurgertona.^[7] Et in Tweyt .ii. acras ⁊ dimidiam ⁊ quendam hominem aufert ipse .R.^[8] Et in Grengesvilla domum Wymundi presbiteri ⁊ quicquid pertinet domui. Et de pastura que adiacet aule.ʼ prepositus eius abstulit .xii. acras.^[9] Et inter Poringlond ⁊ Magnam Schotesham .xv. acras.^[10] Et apud Ludham ferding aufert ipse .R. scilicet

↑ In Smallburgh a sokeman gave a ploughland to St. Benot T.R.E., and held it of the abbot in 1086 (D. B. ii. 219 b). In the same place there were twenty-eight other sokemen in 1086 with a ploughland among them. Roger Bigod had three free men there, of whom one had belonged to Robert Malet's predecessor, the other two to St. Benet, who possessed soke over all three (ibid. ii. 187). The Walter of the text cannot be identified in Domesday, but he is certainly identical with the Walter of Smallburgh whose gift to Thetford priory was confirmed by William Bigod, Roger's son (Mon. Ang. v. 149, col. 2).
↑ Domesday assigns to St. Benet a sokeman having thirty acres, one bordar, and a plough-team (ii. 219 b). The Ulfkitel of the text is probably identical with this sokeman.
↑ The phrase Ludham ferding comprises that portion of Happing hundred which is included in the Domesday description of St. Benet's manor of Ludham (ii. 220). It is probable that this portion was originally an exact quarter of the hundred, for Ludham paid 5s. of geld out of 19s. 6¼d. laid upon the hundred as a whole (Vict. County Hist., Norfolk, ii. 207). Another of these quarters was formed by Waxham and Happisburgh, paying 2s. 6d. each. 'Scharstede' is not separately entered in Domesday, nor is there any reference to this place in Cnut's charter founding St. Benet's abbey, which merely purports to grant the vill called Horning with its appurtenances of Ludham and Neatishead (Mon. Ang. iii. 83). The ferding as the quarter of a hundred is recorded twice in the Suffolk Domesday (Vict. County Hist., Suffolk, i. 358), but does not occur in the survey of Norfolk. It is difficult to connect the form ferding with the Old English feorðling, a quarter. It probably represents the Old Norse fiorðungr.
↑ Westwick only occurs in Domesday as an appendage to Roger of Poitou's manor of Tunstead (ii. 244 b), but between 1127 and 1134 Abbot William I granted to Adam son of Herman all that St. Benet possessed in Westwick and Tuttington (MS. Cott. Galba E. ii, fo. 55 b).
↑ In 1086 St. Benet had a manor of two ploughlands in Thurgarton (D. B. ii. 216). Roger Bigod had two bordars in Thurgarton who belonged to Hanworth and an unnamed free man held by a certain Ilving (ii. 179 b, 185).
↑ Domesday assigns nothing to St. Benet in Sustead. This ploughland may have been included in the survey of Thurgarton.
↑ See above, n. 1.
↑ In 1086 St. Benet held a manor of two ploughlands in Thwaite (D. B. ii. 218).
↑ This place is now divided between Stoke Holy Cross and Caistor by Norwich (Vict. County Hist., Norfolk, ii. 141). St. Benet held a manor of one ploughland there in 1086 (D. B. ii. 217). The land was granted at rent by Abbot Richer to William de Curecun, a tenant upon the Bigod fee, and the grant was confirmed by Richer's successor Anselm (MS. Cott. Galba, E. ii, fo. 56). It was afterwards granted by Abbot Daniel to Robert Picot (fo. 59 b). An original half of the chirograph is preserved in the Bodleian Library (Norfolk Charters, 607), but has never been published.
↑ In 1086 St. Benet held a manor of three ploughlands in Shottesham St. Mary,

[1] In Smallburgh a sokeman gave a ploughland to St. Benot T.R.E., and held it of the abbot in 1086 (D. B. ii. 219 b). In the same place there were twenty-eight other sokemen in 1086 with a ploughland among them. Roger Bigod had three free men there, of whom one had belonged to Robert Malet's predecessor, the other two to St. Benet, who possessed soke over all three (ibid. ii. 187). The Walter of the text cannot be identified in Domesday, but he is certainly identical with the Walter of Smallburgh whose gift to Thetford priory was confirmed by William Bigod, Roger's son (Mon. Ang. v. 149, col. 2).

[2] Domesday assigns to St. Benet a sokeman having thirty acres, one bordar, and a plough-team (ii. 219 b). The Ulfkitel of the text is probably identical with this sokeman.

[3] The phrase Ludham ferding comprises that portion of Happing hundred which is included in the Domesday description of St. Benet's manor of Ludham (ii. 220). It is probable that this portion was originally an exact quarter of the hundred, for Ludham paid 5s. of geld out of 19s. 6¼d. laid upon the hundred as a whole (Vict. County Hist., Norfolk, ii. 207). Another of these quarters was formed by Waxham and Happisburgh, paying 2s. 6d. each. 'Scharstede' is not separately entered in Domesday, nor is there any reference to this place in Cnut's charter founding St. Benet's abbey, which merely purports to grant the vill called Horning with its appurtenances of Ludham and Neatishead (Mon. Ang. iii. 83). The ferding as the quarter of a hundred is recorded twice in the Suffolk Domesday (Vict. County Hist., Suffolk, i. 358), but does not occur in the survey of Norfolk. It is difficult to connect the form ferding with the Old English feorðling, a quarter. It probably represents the Old Norse fiorðungr.

[4] Westwick only occurs in Domesday as an appendage to Roger of Poitou's manor of Tunstead (ii. 244 b), but between 1127 and 1134 Abbot William I granted to Adam son of Herman all that St. Benet possessed in Westwick and Tuttington (MS. Cott. Galba E. ii, fo. 55 b).

[5] In 1086 St. Benet had a manor of two ploughlands in Thurgarton (D. B. ii. 216). Roger Bigod had two bordars in Thurgarton who belonged to Hanworth and an unnamed free man held by a certain Ilving (ii. 179 b, 185).

[6] Domesday assigns nothing to St. Benet in Sustead. This ploughland may have been included in the survey of Thurgarton.

[7] See above, n. 1.

[8] In 1086 St. Benet held a manor of two ploughlands in Thwaite (D. B. ii. 218).

[9] This place is now divided between Stoke Holy Cross and Caistor by Norwich (Vict. County Hist., Norfolk, ii. 141). St. Benet held a manor of one ploughland there in 1086 (D. B. ii. 217). The land was granted at rent by Abbot Richer to William de Curecun, a tenant upon the Bigod fee, and the grant was confirmed by Richer's successor Anselm (MS. Cott. Galba, E. ii, fo. 56). It was afterwards granted by Abbot Daniel to Robert Picot (fo. 59 b). An original half of the chirograph is preserved in the Bodleian Library (Norfolk Charters, 607), but has never been published.

[p226-n10-10] In 1086 St. Benet held a manor of three ploughlands in Shottesham St. Mary,

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