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THE HOLDERS OF LANDS never paid geld. There is land for 6 ploughs. There are 7 villeins and I bordar with 5 ploughs. There (is) wood(land yielding) 40 swine. In the time of King Edward, as {et) now, it was worth 40 shillings ; when received 30 shillings. In the same Hundred Ralph holds to farm of the count I hide outside the rape. Azor held it as an alod {sicut alodium), and it has never paid geld. There is land for 2 ploughs. There are 3 villeins with 2 ploughs. In the time of King Edward and afterwards, as {et) now, (it was worth) 10 shillings. In Apedroc [Parrock^] the count himself holds half a hide. It has never paid geld. It is outside the rape. Queen Edith [Edcfid) held it. There is land for 2 ploughs. There are 2 villeins with i plough and a half. Wood(land yielding) 40 swine and 12 shil- lings. There is i virgate where the count has his hall [aulam). In the same way Earl Harold had it, and he took it away from Saint John.^ In the time of King Edward and after- wards, as (^/) now, (it was worth) 52 shil- lings. In Framelle [Framfield] Hundred ^ There William holds of the count i vir- gate outside the rape. It has never paid geld. Lewin held it as an alod (sicut alodium). There is land for half a plough, and there (the half plough) is, with 3 bordars. Wood- (land yielding) i pig from the pannage. In the time of King Edward (it was worth) 10 shillings ; afterwards and now 5 shillings. Ralph holds of the count in Gorde [Worth in Little Horsted] i hide and i virgate, and fo. aaa for so much they are assessed. Helghi iield them of King Edward, and could betake him- self {ire) whither he pleased. There is land for 6 ploughs. On the demesne is I plough and a half, and (there are) 8 villeins and i bordar with 2 ploughs. There (is) I mill yielding {de) 9 shillings, and 2 acres of mea- dow, and wood(land yielding) 6 swine. » About the thirteenth century this was always called la Parrock. 2 See Introd. p. 377. 3 The parish of Framfield is in Loxfield Hun- dred, and Little Horsted is a detached portion of Rushmonden. Framelle Hundred seems to have been carved out of the archbishop's holding of Meninges (see note 2, p. 388). In the time of King Edward, as {et) now, (this was worth) 50 shillings ; when received 30 shillings. Rannulf holds of the count in Horstede [Little Horsted] 5 hides and 3 virgates, and for so much they are assessed.* Ulfer held them of King Edward, and could betake himself {ire) whither he pleased. There is land for 7-i ploughs. On the demesne are 2 (ploughs), and (there are) 9 villeins and 6 bordars with 4^ ploai;hs, and (there is) i mill yielding {de) 8 shillings. Of "this land i hide lies in the rape of Lewes, and Azelin holds another hide in Bechingetone [Bechington ^], and Grento holds I virgate and a half.' They {hi) have I plough and a half on (their) demesne. The whole in the time of King Edward was worth 100 shillings, and afterwards 50 shillings ; now 60 shillings. In Pevensel Hundred [The Lowev of Pevensev] The count himself holds at Lodintone [ '] 4^ hides, and for so much they are assessed. Six thegns {teigni) held this land as an alod {sicut alodium). There is land for 5 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 5 villeins with 5 ploughs, and I mill yielding {de) 20 shillings, and pasture yielding {de) 20 shillings, and 5 saltpans yield- ing (i^)^ 41 shillings and 8 shillings («V). In the time of King Edward (this) was worth 30 shillings ; now 6 pounds and II shillings and 8 pence. William ' holds of the count at Hamele- sha(m) [Hailsham] i hide and a half, and for so much it is assessed. Alnod held it as an alod {iicut alodium). There is land for 4 < Another virgate which had probably belonged to this manor lay in Eastbourne Hundred (see note 4, p. 409). 5 A manor in Friston. This is probably the hide held by Azelin in Willingdon Hundred as part of Ulfon's manor of Rat ton (see p. 412). ■i Grento gave to Lewes Priory land in Burg- ingehurst [Burghurst in Horsted]. ' Possibly Doddington, or Duddington, on the borders of Hailsham and Folkington. For a similar confusion between / and d compare Belingeham (see note 4, p. 400). There is a small tributary of the Cuckmere in the immediate neighbourhood of Duddington on which the mill might have stood. 8 Possibly William son of Boselin (de Dives), as Hugh de Dives about 1 200 held land in that por- tion of Hailsham parish which is in Pevensey Lowey. [5