de pasnagio 40 porci aut 54 denarii et unus obolus.' Ibid. 191 b: 'De presentacione piscium 12 solidi et 9 denarii.' Ibid. 117 b: 'aut unum bovem aut 30 denarios.'
[196] See above p. 56.
[197] D. B. i. 12 b.
[198] D. B. i. 11 b, Hamestede.
[199] D. B. i. 117 b, Colun.
[200] D. B. i. 127, Stibenhede.
[201] D. B. i. 179 b, Lene.
[202] D. B. i. 12 b, Norborne.
[203] D. B. i. 127 b: 'Wellesdone tenent canonici S. Pauli.... Hoc manerium tenent villani ad firmam canonicorum. In dominio nil habetur.'
[204] See above p. 36.
[205] This matter will be discussed when we deal with St. Oswald's charters.
[205] Schmid, p. 263 (note). This document is Dr Liebermann's Instituta Cnuti (Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. vii. 77).
[207] Schmid, App. II. 57-9.
[208] For the rest, the word túnesman appears in Edgar IV. 8, 13, in connexion with provisions against the theft of cattle.
[209] D. B. i. 259, 259 b.
[210] Leg. Will. I. 29.
[211] D. B. ii. 360 b: 'Hanc terram habet Abbas in vadimonio pro duabus marcis auri concessu Engelrici quando redimebant Anglici terras suas.' Sometimes the Englishman gets back his land as a bedesman: i. 218, 'Hanc terram tenuit pater huius hominis et vendere poterit T. R. E. Hanc rex Willelmus in elemosina eidem concessit'; i. 211, 'Hanc terram tenuit Avigi et potuit dare cui voluit T. R. E. Hanc ei postea rex Willelmus concessit et per breve R. Tallebosc commendavit ut eum servaret'; i. 218 b, a similar case.
[212] Dialogus, i. c. 10; Bracton, f. 7. On both passages see Vinogradoff, Villainage, p. 121.
[213] D. B. ii. 1: 'In hoc manerio erat tunc temporis quidam liber homo ... qui modo effectus est unus de villanis.'
[214] D. B. i. 148 b: 'In Merse tenet Ailric de Willelmo 4 hidas pro uno manerio.... Istemet tenuit T. R. E. sed modo tenet ad firmam de Willelmo graviter et miserabiliter.'
[215] D. B. i. 141: 'Hanc terram sumpsit Petrus vicecomes de isto sochemanno Regis Willelmi in manu eiusdem Regis pro forisfactura de gildo Regis se non reddidisse ut homines sui dicunt. Sed homines de scira non portant vicecomiti testimonium, quia semper fuit quieta de gildo et de aliis erga Regem quamdiu tenuit, testante hundret.'
[216] D. B. i. 30: 'Ricardus de Tonebrige tenet de hoc manerio unam virgatam cum silva unde abstulit rusticum qui ibi manebat.'
[217] D. B. ii. 282 b: 'et istam consuetudinem constituit illis Aluricus prepositus in tempore R. Bigot.'
[218] D. B. ii. 284 b.
[219] D. B. ii. 84 b.
[220] D. B. ii. 353 b: 'omnes fuerunt confusi.'
[221] D. B. ii. 440 b: 'sed homines inde fuerunt confusi.'
[222] D. B. i. 65, Aldeborne.
[223] D. B. ii. 18, Berdringas.
[224] D. B. ii. 88 b, Tachesteda.
[225] Ellis, Introduction, ii. 428. We give Ellis's figures, but think that he has exaggerated the number of sokemen who were to be found in 1086.
[226] We make considerably more than 900 by counting only those who are expressly described as sokemen and excluding the many persons who are simply described as homines capable of selling their land.
[227] Hamilton, Inquisitio, 65.
[228] Hamilton, Inquisitio, 77.
[229] Thus e.g. D. B. ii. 87 b: 'Hidingham tenet Garengerus de Rogero pro 25 acris quas tenuerunt 15 liberi homines T. R. E.'
[230] D. B. i. 31.
[231] D. B. i. 31 b: 'Et 10 hidas tenebant alodiarii villae.'
[232] D. B. i. 10 b.
[233] D. B. i. 13, Essella.
[234] D. B. i. 24.
[235] D. B. 83, 83 b.
[236] Vinogradoff, Villainage, 89 ff.; Hist. Engl. Law, i. 366 ff.
[237] D. B. i. 189 b.
§ 4. The Sokemen.
[The sochemanni and liberi homines.]