The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

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CHAPTER VI. FOOTNOTES.

[203.] Liber Landavensis, p. 545. Ordericus Vitalis, ii. 190. It may have been conquered in 1049, after Gruffydd and Irish pirates had, according to Florence, crossed the Wye and burned 'Dymedham' (see Freeman's Norman Conquest, ii. App. P); but most likely shortly before A.D. 1065, under which date is the following entry in the Saxon Chronicle:—

'A. 1065. In this year before Lammas, Harold the Eorl ordered a building to be erected in Wales at Portskewith after he had subdued it, and there he gathered much goods and thought to have King Edward there for the purpose of hunting; but when it was all ready, then went Cradock, Griffin's son, with the whole force which he could procure, and slew almost all the people who there had been building.'

[204.] Domesday, i. 162 a.

[205.] Ibid. 162 a et seq.

[206.] 185b. See also Freeman's Norman Conquest, ii. App. SS, p. 685.

[207.] Domesday, i. 179 a.

[208.] See Leges Wallice, p. 812. 'De qualibet villa rusticana debet habere ovem fetam vel 4 denarios in cibos accipitrum.' The 54 villæ at 4d. each would make xviii s. (? whether xxviii. by an extra x. in error).

[209.] Domesday, i. 162 a.