A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE plough team, pasture sufficient for the live stock, woodland sufficient for 4 swine. In all the value is 45 shillings ; when received it was 40 shillings ; T.R.E. 4 pounds. Tur- chil, one of Asgar the staller's men, held this manor and could sell. IN BRACHINGS [BRAUGHING] HUNDRET In STANESTEDE [Stanstead] a sokeman holds of Geoffrey i half-virgate. There is land for 2 oxen to plough, and these are there. Meadow is there sufficient to feed 6 oxen, woodland to feed i pig. It has always been worth 2 shil- lings. The same man held it T.R.E. He was Asgar's man and could sell. Geoffrey himself holds SABRIXTEWORDE [Sawbridgworth] as 24^ hides. There is land for 40 ploughs. In the demesne are 1 5 hides, and on it are 10 ploughs, and there could be 2 more. There 50 villeins and 4 sokemenand (cum) a priest have 28 ploughs. The reeve (prepositui) has a half-hide, a priest I hide. Of the villeins 14 have each i vir- gate and 35 each a virgate ; and these villeins hold (in common) i virgate and a half and 9 acres, from which they render dues of 17 shillings and 4 pence yearly. There 46 bordars have each 8 acres ; and there are 2 bordars 'of 10 acres' 1 and 20 cottars 'of 26 acres,' l and there are 30 (other) cottars and 30 serfs. Under the sokemen are 7 cottars. Asgar has 2 hides. Under him are 2 villeins and 7 bordars and 3 cottars and 4 serfs. Kip has half a hide, and i mill worth (de) 2O shillings ; and another sokeman (there is) 'of 5 shillings and 4 pence.' 8 Meadow is there for 20 plough teams, pasture for the live stock, woodland to feed 300 swine, and there is a revenue from these 8 of 4 shillings. Alto- gether the value is 50 pounds ; when received it was 60 pounds ; and 60 also T.R.E. This fo. 140 manor Asgar the staller held, and there were there 4 sokemen. Two of these, men of the same Asgar, had half a hide and could sell, except the soke (prefer socam) ; the third, one of earl Harold's men, had i virgate ; the fourth, a man of Alwin of Godtone, had I virgate. These could part with their land or sell. The soke was Asgar the staller's. Besides these (adbuc) i sokeman of Asgar's had 2 hides, but he could not sell. 1 Ijt. holding that amount between them (J.H.R.).
- i.e. paying that amount (J.H.R.).
8 (earum) i.e. pasture and woodland. Geoffrey himself holds TORLEI [Thorley]. It is assessed at 4 hides. There is land for 8 ploughs. In the demesne are 2 hides, and there are 4 ploughs on it. There 5 villeins and a knight (quodam mi/ite) 4 and (cum) a priest and 9 bordars have 3 ploughs and a half- plough, and another half-plough could be added. There are 1 1 serfs, and i mill worth 10 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 2 plough teams, woodland to feed 40 swine, pasture sufficient for the live stock. In all its value is 8 pounds ; when received it was 100 shillings ; T.R.E. 10 pounds. This manor Godid, 6 a ' man ' of Asgar the staller, held and could sell. William, bishop of Lon- don, bought this manor of king William by the concession (per concessionem) of the same Godid, and now the bishop of London claims it back (reclamat). In WICHEHAM [Wickham] 6 i sokeman holds of Geoffrey 8 acres. There is land for 2 oxen (to plough), woodland to feed 2 swine. It has always been worth 16 pence. The same man held it T.R.E. He was Godid's man and could sell. He was of the King's soke. This belonged to (jacuit in) Wiche- ham T.R.E. This sokeman Geoffrey attached to Torlei, where the soke did not belong T.R.E. In WICHEHAM [Wickham] 2 knights (milites) hold of Geoffrey i hide and 3 acres. There is land for 2 ploughs. On the demesne is i, and there could be another. Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, woodland to feed 14 swine. In all its value is 10 shil- lings ; when received it was 20 shillings ; T.R.E. 40 shillings. Two sokemen, men of Asgar's, held this land and could sell. XXXIV. THE LAND OF GEOFFREY DE BECH IN DANEIS [DACORUM] HUNDRET Geoffrey de Bech holds in WENRIGA [Windridge] and Ralf holds of him i hide and a half. There is land for 2 ploughs. I is there, and there could be another. There are 3 bordars. Woodland is there to feed 300 swine, pasture sufficient for the live stock. This land is and was worth 20 shil- lings ; T.R.E. 50 shillings, JEilmzr, one of earl Lewin's men, held this land and could sell. 4 This should be quldam miles. 6 ' Godid ' is a woman's name (J.H.R.). 6 Wickham Hall in Little Hadham. 332
