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lands. Ten hides are in demeſne, where are 4 ploughlands and 13 ſervants. Forty villagers and 13 cottagers occupy 15 ploughlands. There are 2 acres of meadow. The wood is a mile and a half long, and 3 quarters of a mile broad; and there is the ſame quantity of paſture. Croc holds of the abbot 10 hides and half a yardland, and Fuleredus 2 hides and a half. They who held them T.R.E. could not be removed from the church. Here are 8 ploughlands. The abbot has 1 hide of tainland in his demeſne. The whole demeſne of the abbot is now worth 28 pounds. What the men hold is valued at 12 pounds. When the abbot received it, it was valued at leſs by a 100 ſhillings.

3. The ſame church holds Peveſei. It was aſſeſſed T.R.E. at 30 hides. Here are 24 ploughlands. Six hides and a yardland are in demeſne, where are 3 ploughlands and 6 ſervants. Forty-ſix villagers, 24 cottagers, and

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