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AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST
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in Hecham Elwine Ecses ⁊ quicquid possidet . ⁊ Edelwold cum dimidia possessione . ⁊ Elfpricum [sic] fratrem ems similiter.[1] Et in Fretone .vi acras.[2] Et in Catefeld dimidiam possessionem cuiusdam domus quam tenuit Bondus . ⁊ manredam cuiusdam mulieris cum .ii. acris.[3] In Waltona .ii. acras.[4] Et Ulf aufert dimidiam acram terre in Fleg.[5] Egelwy pater Stannardi abstulit apud … terram ⁊ aulam Ringolfi . qui cum abbate perrexit in Denemarke. Et ideo Egelwy illam terram reseysiuit ad manum regis . nunc autem nec rex nec sanctus Benedictus habet Et in eodem tempore seisiuit Lefchild cum terra sua ⁊ dimidiam manredam Elfredi . ⁊ dimidiam manredam Snuningi [sic] cum suis possessionibus . ⁊ Scotlande cum sua possessione.[6] Et Godricum presbiterum de Clypesby cum dimidia possessione.[7] Et in eodem tempore ad Reppes seisiuit ipse Egelwinus . Bonde pine ⁊ alterum Bondum filium Offles ⁊ Lefchild ⁊ Wlfmerum filium Sirici ⁊ Haward filium Tudeles.[8] Et Tukke fabrum apud
- ↑ Potter Heigham in Happing hundred, to which this entry relates, was presumably included in the Domesday description of St. Benet's manor of Ludham. It is to be distinguished from Heigham by Norwich, which also belonged to St. Benet. The only explicit reference in Domesday to Potter Heigham records that Godric of Heigham holds two free men with two acres who are worth two pence (ii. 272 b). There is nothing to connect these men with either Roger Bigod or St. Benet.
- ↑ Fritton between Ludham and Potter Heigham is doubtless included in the Domesday account of the former place.
- ↑ Nothing is definitely assigned by Domesday to St. Benet in Catfield. A berewick there was annexed to Roger Bigod's manor of Sutton (ii. 179 b).
- ↑ This place is now represented by Walton Hall, a mile north of Ludham, of which manor it probably formed a part.
- ↑ The Fleg of the text covers the hundreds of East and West Flegg, in each of which St. Benet possessed considerable estates.
- ↑ The Egelwy of the text is certainly identical with Alwi of Thetford, Roger Bigod's antecessor in many places (below, p. 233). The name of the place in which Ringulf's land lay was probably illegible when the present memorandum was copied into the cartulary of St. Benet. It may, however, be identified with Oby in the hundred of West Flegg, where Stanhard, Alwi's son, held of Roger Bigod in 1086 thirty acres which a free man named Ringulf had held in King Edward's time (D. B. ii. 174 b). Six free men with thirty acres were Stanhard's tenants annexed to this property in Oby; the four men named in the text are probably included among them. Roger Bigod claimed these men in virtue of the king's gift, and asserted that they belonged to the fee of Alwi of Thetford, his predecessor. St. Benet still possessed a manor in Oby to which ten free men belonged through commendation. Another free man with twenty-three acres in Oby is the subject of separate entry under St. Benet's fee (ii. 216 b, 217). Stanhard son of Alwi encroached further upon this estate after Domesday (below, p. 228, n. 4).
- ↑ Roger Bigod held by the king's gift a free man of St. Benet in Clippesby and two free men of St. Benet in Ormesby. Alwi had held these men at some period between the Conquest and 1086; Stanhard was Roger's immediate tenant at the latter date (D. B. ii. 174 b).
- ↑ The holdings of seven free men in Repps, four of them St. Benet's men, two of
which may have extended into Poringland (D. B. ii. 217). Already before Domesday many men in this part of Norfolk who had once been dependents of St. Benet had passed under other lords. Four free men in Shottesham, formerly belonging to St. Benet, were annexed to Roger Bigod's fee (ii 185 b). Three free men and five sokemen of St. Benet were held by Walter Giffard in right of Bodin his antecessor (ii. 242 b). Walter also possessed one of St. Benet's sokemen who had been worth 2 orae (ii. 243). But it is probable that the encroachment recorded in the text is later than Domesday.
