Category: History - British
Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, and some parts of Yorkshire. Even in other districts of England the rule that each vill has a single lord is by no means unbroken in the Conqueror's day and we can see that there were many exceptions to it in the Confessor's. A car...
the church of Worcester and assigns it to a thegn. The consideration for this lease is a promise that for the future he will not make gifts out of the goods of the church.
7. i. 230 b: 'Has terras habet Goduinus de Rege ad firmam, Disleavero tenet de Rege in feudo.' So again it may be contrasted with the husband's rights in his wife's marriage portion. D. B. i. 214 b: 'De ista terra tenet Pirotus 3 hidas de mar...
5. ii. 357 b: 'Hi poterant dare et vendere terram, set saca et[148] For example, D. B. i. 201: 'Homines Abbatis de Ely fuerunt et 4 terram suam _vendere potuerunt_, soca vero remansit Abbati, et quartus 1 virgam et dimidiam habuit et _rece...
6. i. 24, two free men held as two manors land rated at a hideand sufficient for one team; it is now tilled by four villeins. In the Isle of Wight, D. B. i. 39 b, five free men held as five manors land sufficient for two teams; it is now t...
2. i. 132 b, the manor of Weston 'lies in' Hitchin which is inHertfordshire, but its _wara_ 'lies in' Bedfordshire, i.e. it pays geld, it 'defends itself' in the latter county; i. 189 b, the _wara_ of a certain hide 'lies in' Hinxton which...
9. i. 119, seems to doubt whether it can be traced far beyond[938] The clearest instance is in the Waltham charter, K. 813 (iv. 154), but some details of this are not beyond suspicion. See also the writs for Westminster, K. 828 (iv. 191),...
1. vill. This seems true not only of Cambridgeshire but also of Essex,Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, and some parts of Yorkshire. Even in other districts of England the rule that each vill has a single lord is by no means unbroken i...
8. i. 577: 'de illa autem tribulatione que witereden nominatur sitlibera, nisi tamen singuli pretium solverit ut talia accipiant. Fures quoque quos appellant weregeldðeofas si foras rapiautur, pretium eius dimidium illi aecclesiae, et dimidium...
3. ii. 54 b 'accepit 15 acras de uno franco teigno et misit cum[142] D. B. ii. 435: 'Et super Vlnoht habuit commendationem antecessor R. Malet, teste hundredo, et non potuit vendere nec dare _de eo_ terram suam.' Ibid. 397: 'viderunt eum iu...
4. ii. 92 b: 'unus sochemannus fuit in hac terra de 15 acris quas