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Excerpt from An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol. 10: Containing a Description of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets; Likewise, an Historical Account of the Castles, Seats, and Manors, Their Present and Ancient Owners
At the survey it was the lordship ofralph ale Beanfoe, and Ricard held it of him, but Fader was lord in the reign ofthe Confessor, when it consisted of3 carucates and a lialfof land, 9 villains, 7 borderers, 3 servi; 6 acres of meadow, 2 carucates in demean, Sac. A carucate and a half amongst the tenants, pannage for 30 swine, a mill, a fishery, and the fourth part of a salt-pit; one horse, 7 cows, Ste. 80 sheep, and 4 bee skeps, and 6 socmen had halfa carucate of land and 2 acres of meadow, 8lc. Valued then at 408. After at 31. Per mm. And a. Freeman had 60 acres of land under Herold, with 2 borderers and an acre and half oi' meadow, 860. Valued then at 53. After at 43. The soc belonged to the King's manor ofmileham. Here was a church en dowed with 30 acres, valued at 16d. The whole was one leuca long, and half a leuca broad, and paid 7§ - _d. Gelt.'
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