INTRODUCTION
History of the Manor
I Begin my short account of the manor of Ingoldmells, or, as it is now called, Ingoldmells-cum-Addlethorpe, by transcribing two entries from Domesday Book, which I translate.
‘Land of Robert Le Despenser [Robertus Dispensator].
‘Manor. In Herdertorp Wiuelac had 3 carucates of land for geld. There is land for 3 ploughs. There Robert has 3 ploughs in demesne, and 32 sokemen with a moiety of this land and 12 villeins with six ploughs. There are there two churches, and 400 acres of meadow. In King Edward’s time it was Worth 8l., now it is worth 10l. There is soke in Guldelsmere.
‘Soke. In Partenai, and Stepinge, and Tric, and Burg there were 2½ carucates of land for geld. There is land for as many Ploughs. There 5 sokemen and 2 villeins have half a plough, and 30 acres of meadow.’
I suggest that ‘Herdertorp’ is the same place as ‘Arduluetorp,’ later ‘Ardelthorp,’ i.e. Addlethorpe. We find ‘Hardelthorp’ for Addlethorpe in 1205, and again in the 15th century. I suggest further that Ingoldmells and Addlethorpe are described under this name of ‘Herdertorp,’ or ‘Herdetorp,’ in Domesday Book, and that the manor of Ingoldmells-cum-Addlethorpe with its soke is described in the above entries. Mr. Eyton in his Lincolnshire Collections tells[1] us that he has no doubt that Guldelsmere may be safely identified with Ingoldmells, and eventually he came to the conclusion that Robert Le Despenser’s manor of Ingoldmells is, as a manor, described under the name of Herdertorp.
- ↑ Addit. MSS. 31929 and 31930.
