"De terris [su]prà nominatis Alnodi-[cild] similiu ej h't rex custodia VI dielb3 apud Cantuariā, uel apud Sanuuic. 7 ibi h'nt de rege cibū potū. Si non habuerint, sine forisfactura recedunt. Si fuerint p'moniti ut ueniant ad sciră, ibunt usq ad Pinnedennā, non longius. Et si non uenerint, de hac forisfactura 7 de aliis om'ib; rex c sol. habebit, excepta Gribrige, quæ VIII lib' em'dat', 7 de callib sic' sup'ius scriptū ē . . . . (Domesday, p. 1a.) "Of the lands above named of Ainod-[cild] and of the like, the king has the custody for six days at Canterbury, or at Sandwich; and they have there of the king meat and drink. And if they shall not have it, they may depart without forfeiture. If they shall be warned to attend at the shire [mote], they shall go as far as to Penenden, not further. And if they shall not come, for this forfeiture and for all others the king shall have one hundred shillings, except for Grithbreach, which is amended by eight pounds, and for the highways as is above written.. burgo, q'd antequa rex Edw dedisset illu S. Trin'. reddeb' regi xv lib'; tepore [mortis] R. E. non erat ad firmam. Q'do recep' archiep's, reddeb' XL lib' de firma, 7 XL milia [de] allecib3 ad uictu monachor'. "In anno quo facta est hæc descriptio, reddidit [Sanuuic] L lib' de firma, 7 alleces sicut prius. "T. R. E. erant ibi ccc 7 VII mansuræ hospitatæ, modo sunt plus LXXVI, id est, simul CCC LXXX III." Dover; and this the men of that borough do testify, that before King Edward gave it to the Holy Trinity, it rendered to the king fifteen pounds; at the time [of the death] of King Edward it was not let to farm. When the archbishop received it, it yielded forty pounds farm, and forty thousand eels for the food of the monks. In the year in which this description is made [Sandwich] yielded fifty pounds farm, and eels as before. "In the time of King Edward there were three hundred and seven inhabited mansions there; now there are seventy-six more, that is, together three hundred and eighty-three." TERRA ECCLE DE LA BATAILGE. "Abbas Sci Martini de loco belli [tenet] ' q'd uocat' WI, q'd T.R.E. 7 mo se defd' p' VII solins ......T.R.E. ualeb' q't xx lib'y c solid' VI Sol' J VIII den'...... Si abbas habuisset sacas 7 socas, XX lib' plus app'ciaret'." (Domesday, p. 11.) "The abbat of Saint Martin of Battel [holds] the manor which is called Wye, which in the time of King Edward and now defends itself for seven sulings......In the time of King Edward it was worth fourscore pounds and one hundred shillings and six shillings and eight pence......If the abbat had sac and soc, it would be worth twenty pounds more." CONCLUSION. "O'ER PROSTRATE THRONES THE NORMAN TYRANT KNELT, Thus have we adventured into the wide field of 'hoar antiquitie.' Thus have we conducted the reader to the primeval fountains of historic truth,-to the pure sources of the English Constitution. And thus have we attempted to pourtray, in vivid contrast, the conflicting elements of Saxon liberty and Norman despotism. And this we have done with a heart glowing with the same aspirations which animated the Saxon mother, when she presented her child at the shrine of the immortal Alfred. There he bowed his youthful head, and bade the 'Father of his Country' Hail! There the ardent boy drank deeply of the gushing tide of patriotism! And there, upon the Altar of his Country, the Saxon Hannibal proclaimed eternal hatred to the Norman ! |