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A HISTORY OF SUSSEX In Clavesham [Claverham] ' Osward a free man held 2 virgates. It has never paid geld. There Reinbert has I villein and i cottar with i plough. Then (it was worth) 2 shillings ; now 4 shillings. In Ailesaltede [Netherfield] Hundred In Calvintone [Chalvington] Godo, a free man, held 2 virgates. They have never paid geld. There Reinbert has I villein and I cottar with I plough. Then (this was worth) 2 shillings ; now 4 shillings. In Hectone [Heighton]- Godwin, a free man, held 2 virgates. They have never paid geld. There Osbern has 2 villeins with I plough. Then, as {et) now, (this was worth) 4 shillings. In Hectone [Heighten] Godwin, a free man, held I virgate. It has never paid geld. There Hugh has I cottar. Then (it was worth) 2 shillings ; now 12 shillings. In Hectone [Heighton] Godwin held i virgate. It has never paid geld. There Hugh has l villein with 5 oxen. It is and was worth 2 shillings. In the same Hundred Saswalo holds of the count I virgate. One free man held this. It has never paid geld. Then (it was worth) 15 pence ; now 12 pence. In Staple [Staple] Hundred The count himself holds in demesne Werste [Ewhurst]. ^Ifer held it of King Edward. Then it was assessed for 6 hides. Now for 4 hides and 3 virgates, and there are 5 virgates' withdrawn (from paying geld; and the assessment is further reduced) because I hide is in the rape of the Count of Mor- tain.* There is land for 20 ploughs. On 1 This probably lay at Claverham in Battle parish. ^ This and the next two entries may possibly constitute the half hide referred to under ' Ferles' in Flexborough Hundred (see note 6, p. 413). 3 V(trge) interlined. < Modo pro an hidis et tit virgis el quhique virge sunt retro quia una hida est in rapo comitis dc Morito- nie. This is a puzzling sentence and hard to translate ; I consider that quinque vlrge sunt retro is a parenthesis, quia referring back to pro iiii hidis et Hi t'irgis ; the meaning is, th.it of the original 6 hides 1 is in the other rape, and the remainder pay geld for 4 hides and 3 virgates, 5 virgates being excused. (See Introd., and Eng. Hist. Rev. xix. 95.) The hide in the Count of Mortain's rape is probably that held by Alfcc in Pevcnsey Hundred the demesne are 4 plouglis, and 12 villeins and 10 bordars with 6 ploughs. There (are) 4 serfs, and 12 acres of meadow, and wood- (land yielding) 10 swine. Of the land of this manor Osbern^ holds I hide and 3 virgates in Bodeham [Bodiam] ; then, as now, it belonged to [semper jacuit in) Werste [Ewhurst], and there was a hall [halla) there. Roger (holds) half a hide, Ralph 2 virgates. On (their) demesne is I plough and a half, and 7 villeins and 10 bordars with 3^ ploughs. The whole manor in the time of King Edward was worth 10 pounds, and afterwards 6 pounds ; now 9 pounds. The count himself holds Hiham [Higham]. Earl Godwin held it. In the time of King Edward there were 2 hides, but it was assessed for 2 hides, as (the jurors) say ; and now (it is assessed) for 2 hides. There is land for 16 ploughs. On the demesne is I (plough), and 30 villeins and 10 bordars with 1 9 ploughs. There (are) 6 acres of meadow, and wood(land yielding) 2 swine. In the time of King Edward it was worth 100 shillings ; now 6 pounds. It was waste [vastatum) (when received). Walter son of Lambert holds of the count Salescome [Sedlescombe]. Lefsi held it of Countess Goda. It was assessed for I hide, and 3 virgates outside (firis) the rape,® and now for I hide. There is land for 4 ploughs. On the demesne is i (plough), and 6 villeins with 2 bordars have 5 ploughs. There (are) 7 acres of meadow, and wood- (land yielding) 6 swine. There (is) a chapel (eccksio/a). In the time of King Edward (it was worth) 60 shillings, and afterwards 20 shillings ; now 40 shillings. Wibert holds of the count Lordistret [Lording Court].* Wenestan held it of Osward, and could not betake himself {ire) whither he would. Then, as {et) now, it was (see note 7, p. 416) ; it is the only case of a manor in Hastings having a detached portion in Pevensey rape. 5 The Osbern who held Bodiam is said in the Battle Abbey Chronicle to have been son of Hugh de Ovv, and is therefore not identical with Osbern son of Geoffrey mentioned above, but may be the Osbern de Ow who occurs in Domesday in Surrey. « Foris rapum must refer only to the 3 virgates and se defcr.d{cbat) only to the l hide, as land ' out- side the rape ' was not ' assessed.' 7 Et modo pro I kida interlined. s In Ewhurst. 406