"Duas dom' duor' burg'siu, una foris alia int' circuitate, q'dā monachus æccl'æ cantuar' abstulit. Hæ erant positæ in calle [regis]. Burg'ses habuer' XLV mansur' ext' ciuitate de q'b ipsi habeb' gablu c'suetud'. rex aut' hab' sacă soca. Ipsi q'q. burg'ses habebant de rege XXX.III ac's t'ræ in gilda suā. Has dom' hanc t'ra ten' Ranulf' de Colubels. Habet etia q't xx ac's t'ræ sup' hæc, quas tenebant burgens' in alodia de rege. Tenet quoqs v ac's t'ræ quæ juste p'tinent uni æccl'æ. De his om'ib reuocat isde Rannulf' ad p'tectore ep❜m Baiocensem.

"Radulf". de Curbespine h't IIII mansuras in ciuitate quas tenuit quædã c'cubina heraldi, de quib? est saca 7 soca regis, sed usq; nc non habuit.

"Isdē Radulf' ten' alias XI māsuras de ep'o [Baioc'.] in ipsa ciuitate que fuer' Sbern biga, 7 redd't XI solid' II den' I obolů.

"Per tota ciuitaté Cantuariæ h't rex sacă socă excepta t'ra æccl'æ S. Trin' S. Augustini 7 Eddeuæ

received it. It is now valued at fifty pounds. But he who now

holds it pays thirty pounds by weight, and twenty-four pounds by tale. Above all these the sheriff has one hundred and ten shillings.

"Two houses of two burgesses, the one without, the other within the circuit [of the city], a certain monk of the church of Canterbury removed. These were situated in the [king's] highway. The burgesses had fortyfive mansions without the city, of which they had rent and custom, but the king had the sac and soc. The same burgesses also held of the king thirty-three acres of [arable] land in their guild. These houses and this land Ranulf de Columbels holds. He holds also four score acres of [arable] land above this, which the burgesses hold of the king in allodium. He holds also five acres of [arable] land, which of right belong to a certain church. Of all these the same Ranulf voucheth to warranty the bishop of Baieux.

"Radulf de Curbespine has four mansions in the city which a certain concubine of [king] Harold held, of which the sac and soc belong to the king, but hitherto he has not had it.

"The same Radulf holds eleven other mansions of the bishop [of Baieux] in the same city which were Sbern-biga's, and yield eleven shillings and two-pence and one halfpenny.

"Throughout the whole city of Canterbury the king has the sac and soc, except the land of the

church of the Holy Trinity, and of Saint Augustine, and of the queen Eddiva, and of Alnod-cild, and of Esber-biga, and of Siret of Chilham.

"It is agreed of the highways which have through the city entrance and exit, whosoever shall commit any offence in them shall make fine to the king. In like manner of the highways without the city to the distance of one league, and three perches and three feet, if any one within these public ways, within the city or without, shall dig [a trench] or erect a fence, the king's prefect shall pursue him wheresoever he shall go, and shall levy the fine to the king's use.

"The archbishop claims the forfeiture in those ways without the city, on both sides where the land is his.

"A certain prefect, Brumannus by name, in the time of King Edward, took customs of foreign merchants in the land of the Holy Trinity and of Saint Augustine, who afterwards, in the time of King William, acknowledged before the archbishop Lanfranc and the bishop of Baieux that he had taken them wrongfully, and swore upon the holy sacraments that those churches held their customs freely in the time of King Edward. And thenceforth both churches had their customs in their own land by the judgment of the king's barons, who held the plea."

"Dover in the time of King Edward yielded eighteen pounds, of which money King Edward had two parts, and the Earl Godwin the third part. On the other hand the canons of Saint Martin had the other moiety.

"The burgesses furnished twenty ships [to the king] once in the year for fifteen days, and in every ship were twenty-one men. This they did because he [the king] had pardoned [released] to them sac and

SOC.

"When the king's messengers came thither, they gave [paid] for the transport of a horse three-pence in winter, and two in summer. But the burgesses provided a steersman and one other assistant; and if further work should be required, it should be performed at his [the king's] charge.

"From the feast of Saint Michael to the feast of Saint Andrew the king's peace was to be kept in the town. If any one broke it, the king's prefect received the accustomed fine for the same.

"Whosoever constantly dwelt in the town rendered custom to the

quietus erat de theloneo p' totā Anglia.

"Om's hæ consuetudines erant ibi quando Will's rex in Anglia

uenit.

"In ipso p'mo aduentu ej9 in Anglia fuit ipsa uilla cōbusta...... In introitu portus de Douere est unu molendin', q'd om's pene naues confringit p' magna turbationē maris, maximu dānu facit regi 7 hominib, 7 non fuit ibi T.R.E. De hoc dicit nepos Herberti q'd ep's Baiocensis concessit illu fieri auunculo suo Herberto filio Iuonis." (Domesday, p. 1a.)

CUSTOMS OF FOUR "Has infra scriptas leges regis 9cordant hō'es de 1111° lestis, hoc ē Boruuar lest, Estrelest, 7 Linuuartlest, Wiuuartlest.209 Siq's fecerit sepē uel fossatu, pro quo strictior fiat publica uia regis, aut arborē stantē extra uia intra prostrauerit, 7 inde ramu uel fronde portauerit, pro una quaq' haru forisfactur' soluet regi c sol. Et si abierit domū non app'hensus uel diuadiatus, tamen minister regis eù sequet', 1 c solid. em'dabit.

king. He was quit of toll through all England.

"All these customs were there when King William came into England.

"At his very first coming into England this town was burnt............. At the entrance of the port of Dover is one mill, against which almost all ships are wrecked through the violent raging of the sea, and it does great injury to the king and the people; and it was not there in the time of King Edward. Concerning this [mill] the nephew of Herbert sayeth that the bishop of Baieux allowed it to be made by his uncle Herbert, the son of Ivon."

LATHES IN EAST KENT.

"The men of the four lathes, that is, of Boruuar lath, and of Eastry lath, and of Linuuart lath, and of Wiuuart lath,209 acknowledge these under-written laws of the king. If any one shall make a hedge or a ditch, by which the king's highway shall be narrowed, or shall throw down a tree standing without the highway into the highway, and shall take away a branch or bough thereof, for every one of these forfeitures he shall pay to the king one hundred shillings; and if he shall depart from his house without having been apprehended or bailed [delivered to pledges], the king's minister shall nevertheless pursue him, and he shall forfeit one hundred shillings.

"Of Grithbreach, if any one shall commit it [in the highway] and shall be impeached or delivered to pledges, he shall forfeit eight pounds to the king; but if he shall be quit towards the king, he shall not therefore be quit towards the lord whose man he shall be.

"Of other forfeitures, the same as for Grith-breach, except that amends shall be made by one hundred shillings.

"These forfeitures the king has over all the allodiarii [i. e. thanes or freeholders] of the whole county of Kent, and over their men.

"And when an allodiarius shall die, the king has thereupon the relief of the land, except of the land of the Holy Trinity, and of Saint Augustine, and of Saint Martin, and except these, Godric de Burnes, &c.

... Over these the king has the forfeiture of the pepe (were) only. And of their lands, he has the relief who has the sac and soc.

"And of these lands, to wit, Goslaches, &c. .... the king has these forfeitures, Hamsocne, Grithbreach, Forestall; but of adultery, through all Kent, the king has the man and the archbishop the woman, except in the land of the Holy Trinity, and of Saint Augustine, and of Saint Martin, of which the king has nothing.

Of a thief who is adjudged to death, the king has a moiety of his money. And he who shall receive a banished man without the king's licence, the king has the forfeiture for the same.