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DOMESDAY SURVEY make up half the hundred of East Flegg. It was thus on a very different footing from the two boroughs just described. Of Lynn we have only one or two casual mentions. It should no doubt have been described with Stigand's escheat, but has somehow come to be left out, a fact which will help us to estimate the carelessness with which Little Domesday was compiled. It was probably a ' simple borough,' and dependent only upon its lord.* It must also have been the chief town of Freebridge hundred and a half. We may gather up a few incidental scraps of knowledge before quitting the Domesday Survey. Thus the word aula^ generally used for the principal farmstead,** is once used to imply a manor court. Roger de Ramis had 24 acres in ' Plestuna,' ' sed fuerunt in aula Sancti Eadmundi.' ' We seem to hear of livery of seisin being made by the handing over of a bit, since the reeve of Saham sold a piece of land 'per unum frenum.'* There are a few indications of the employment of some of the under-tenants. Roger Bigod had a chamberlain, Herbert," and a cook, Warin.' The abbot of St. Edmund's had a steward (dapifer)? We find Geoffrey the archdeacon at Norton on the Hill,' and Walter the deacon at Stratton.' Two goldsmiths are mentioned. Nicholas, Earl Hugh's goldsmith, had land at Raveningham," and Rainbald, a goldsmith, at Herringby." Robert Blund's office is described as misterium ; he was the steward or farmer of the king's lands. Tohli " and Waleran " and R. (possibly Robert Blund) '^ are named as sheriffs, and a considerable number of reeves are mentioned. '° There was a sub-reeve at Earsham'^ and a 'serviens regis' at Barney.'* The earl's oven [pistritium) " in the French borough at Norwich should not be overlooked. The ' herigete ' mentioned as a royal due at Yarmouth appears to be mentioned nowhere else. We may add to the historical facts already alluded to, the battle of Hastings^" and the exile of Tosti," and then turn away from the rich field of the Norfolk Survey with the feeling that its riches are still but half explored. ' Ballard, Domesday Boroughs, 94-103. ' Dom. Bk. fF. 246, 257^, 269. At Barsham there were two Halle (f. l683). ' Ibid. f. 263. * Ibid. f. I lob. ' Ibid. f. 278. ^ Ibid. f. 156. ' Ibid. f. 275^. " Ibid. f. 192^. ' Ibid. f. 193. '» Ibid. f. 279. " Ibid. f. 273. '* Ibid. f. iio3. Robert, who is surnamed ' Blundus ' as a tenant-in-chief in SufFolk, 'Albus' in 1 Northants, and ' Flavus ' in Wilts, was probably also the Robert ' Blancard ' or ' Blancar ' of the Norfolk Survey '(fF. 140^, 2433) (J. H. R.). " Ibid. fF. 140, 211*, 264. " Ibid. 117^. '* Ibid. f. 179. Mr. Round points out that Robert Blund is distinctly spoken of as sheriff — but a past sherifF — of the county : 'quamdiu Rodbertus Blundus comitatum tenuit, habuit inde unoquoque anno i unciam auri ' (f. 118). He is disposed to think that the ' R. vicecomes' who occurs on f. 179 as sherifF at the time of Domesday was Roger Bigot himself. See p. 19 above. '" Ibid. fF. 110, 146, 186, 198, 198^, 199, 217^, 229^, 2693, 272, 275^, 277^. "Ibid. f. 186. 'Mbid. f. 258. " This was a feature of foreign feudalism (J. H. R.). '■"' Ibid. f. 275^ : ' bellum Hastinges.' It is amusing to note that in one entry the Domesday scribe thus blurts out the truth — ' Postquam W. rex conquisivit Angliam ' (f. 1241^), though a few lines further down he remembers to use the guarded phrase, ' Postquam rex W. venit in Anglicam terram,' a formula which thenceforth recurs with trifling variations, 'venit in hanc patriam,' and so forth (fF 140, 173, 199, 212^, 232, 269), though on f. 190 it is cut down curtly to ' Postquam Willelmus venit' (J. H. R.). " Ibid. f. 200^. 37