Page:Wiltshire, Extracted from Domesday Book.djvu/147

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

[ 99 ]

too high. The lands of the military tenants are worth 7 pounds and 15 ſhillings,

2. The ſame church holds Hanindone, and Robert of the abbot. Here are 15 hides; among which are 10 ploughlands. Three of theſe ploughlands, with 7 ſervants, are in demeſne. Eighteen villagers and 10 cottagers occupy 6 ploughlands. Two mills pay 8 ſhillings; and a dwelling-houſe pays 5 pence. The meadow is 3 furlongs fquare. The paſture is half a mile long, and 3 furlongs broad. The whole value amounts to 15 pounds. The abbot fold 3 hides of this manor T.R.E. to a certain Thane for the life of 3 men, and the ſame abbot received ſervices for them, but they afterwards returned to the demeſne, and now they remain like the other 12 hides.

3. The ſame church holds Devrel, It was aſſeſſed T.R.E. at 10 hides. Here are 8 ploughlands. Five of theſe hides are in menſe

H 2
meſne.