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are 5 ploughlands. Three of theſe hides are in demeſne, where are 2 ploughlands and 2 ſervants. Six villagers and 6 cottagers occupy 3 ploughlands. The mill pays 12 ſhillings. Here are 28 acres of meadow, and 40 acres of paſture. It was worth 60 ſhillings; now 100. Hardingus voluntarily reſtored this land to the church, which he might have holden for his life[1] as the pledge for a debt.,

2. The ſame church holds Tiſſeberie. It was aſſeſſed T.R.E. at 20 hides. Here are 40 ploughlands. Five of theſe hides are in demeſne, where are 3 ploughlands. Forty villagers and 50 borderers occupy 25 ploughlands. Four mills pay 35 ſhillings. Here are 40 acres of meadow. The paſture is a mile and a half long, and 3 quarters of a mile broad. The wood is 1 mile and a half ſquare. Turſtinius holds of the abbeſs 3 hides of this land. Gunfridus 3 hides. Albicus 2 hides;

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  1. So I underſtand the abbreviations In the original.
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