A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE (cum) 8 bordars have 4 ploughs. There are 2 cottars and 4 serfs, and i mill worth 10 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for i plough team, pasture sufficient for the live stock. In all it is worth IOO shillings ; when received 60 shillings ; T.R.E. 7 pounds. This manor was held by Elmer of Belintone, one of king Edward's thegns. In HAINSTEWORDE [Hinxworth] the same Peter holds i hide and i virgate. There is land for 2 ploughs, and these are there. In the demesne is half a hide, and on it is I plough ; and i villein and (cum) 4 bordars have I plough. There are 2 cottars. Meadow is there sufficient for a half-plough team. It is worth 20 shillings ; when received 10 shil- lings ; T.R.E. 30 shillings. This land was a berewick of Escewelle [Ash well]. Aimer held it. IN RADEWELLE [Radwell] Roger holds of Peter 2 hides as i manor. There is land there for 3 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ; and 5 bordars have a half-plough, and another half-plough could be added. There are 2 serfs, and i mill worth (de) 6 shillings and 8 pence. Meadow is there sufficient for a half-plough team, pasture sufficient for the live stock. Elmer of Belintone [Bennington] held this manor, and his brother held half a hide of the same land. He was Elmer's man and could sell. IN THE HALF-HUNDRET OF HlZ [HlTCHIN] In FLEXMERE [ ] Peter holds half a virgate. There is land for a half-plough. There is i bordar. Woodland is there to feed 5 swine. It is and was worth 3 shil- lings ; T.R.E. 40 pence. Alvric, a man of -(Elmer of Belintone, held this land and could sell. He rendered i 'avera' (the service of carrying i load) in Hiz [Hitchin]. IN HERTFORD HUNDRET In BELINGEHOU [Bengeo] Peter holds i virgate. There is land for a half-plough, and this is there, with I villein. It has always been worth 5 shillings. Elmer of Belintone, a thegn of king Edward's, held this land. In TEWINGE [Tewin] Aldene holds of Peter 5^ hides. There is land for 5 ploughs and a half-plough. On the demesne is I plough, and there could be another ; and 4 fo. I villeins and (cum) 5 bordars have 3 ploughs and a half-plough. There are 5 cottars and I serf, and i mill worth (de) 8 shillings. Meadow is there sufficient for 2 plough teams, pasture sufficient for the live stock, woodland to feed 50 swine, and there is a revenue from this of 2 shillings. In all it is worth 60 shillings ; when received it was worth 30 shillings ; T.R.E. 4 pounds. The same Aldene, a thegn of king Edward's, held this land and could sell. But king William gave the manor to this Aldene and his mother for the soul of Richard his son, 1 as (Aldene) himself says, by his writ to be shown (per breve suum ostend[endum]). Peter now says that he holds this manor by gift of the King. XXXVII. THE LAND OF HARDUIN DE SCALERS IN BRADEWATRE [BROADWATER] HUNDRET Harduin de Sealers holds in SUEUECAMPE [Sacomb] i hide. There is land for i plough, and the plough is there, with 4 villeins. It was and is worth 8 shillings ; T.R.E. 2O shillings. Three sokemen held this land. Two of these, men of Anschil of Waras [Ware], held 3 virgates and could sell, and the third, a man of Alvric Blac, had I virgate and could sell. These 3 used to render i ' avera ' or 4 pence yearly to the sheriff. IN ODESEI [ODSEY] HUNDRET In LUFENEL [LufFenhall] Tetbald 8 holds of Harduin half a hide. There is land for I plough, but no plough is there, and only 2 bordars. It is and was worth 5 shillings ; T.R.E. 10 shillings. Alward, one of earl Algar's men, held this land and could sell. In CLADHELE [Clothall] Tetbald 8 holds of Harduin i virgate all but 3 acres. It is and was worth 5 shillings ; T.R.E. 10 shillings. Turbert, a priest of archbishop Stigand, held this land and could sell. He found i penny. 3 1 See Introduction, p. 298. 8 It is remarkable that this tenant, who held so largely under Hardwin in Hertfordshire, appears (as 'Tedbaldus' [or 'Teodbaldus' or 'Theod- baldus '] ' homo Hardewini ') among the Domes- day jurors for the Cambridgeshire Hundred of Triplow, in which he is not named as a tenant, and which barely touched a corner of Hertford- shire Q.H.R.). 8 i.e. the commutation for ' avera ' due on one virgate (J.H.R.). 338
