[371] Above, p. 88.
[372] D. B. ii. 379: ‘Super ferting de Almeham habet W. Episcopus socam et sacam.’
[373] D. B. i. 184: ‘Haec terra non pertinet ... ad hundredum. De hac terra habet Rogerius 15 sextarios mellis et 15 porcos quando homines sunt ibi et placita super eos.’
[374] D. B. ii. 139 b.
[375] D. B. ii. 114.
[376] D. B. i. 340, 346, 357 b, 366, 368 b (ter). See also on f. 344, 344 b, the symbol fð in the margin. The word friðsócn occurs in Æthelr. VIII. 1 and Cnut I. 2 § 3, where it seems to stand for a sanctuary, an asylum.
[377] If one of A’s tenants is sued in a personal action in the hundred court he will have to answer there unless A appears and ‘claims his court.’ This comes out plainly in certain rolls of the court of Wisbeach Hundred, which by the kind permission of the Bishop of Ely, I have examined. On a roll of 33 Edw. I. we find Stephen Hamond sued for a debt; ‘et super hoc venit Prior Elyensis et petit curiam suam; et Thomas Doreward petit curiam suam de dicto Stephano residente suo et tenente suo.’ The prior’s petition is refused on the ground that Stephen is not his tenant, and Doreward’s petition is refused on the ground that it is unprecedented.
[378] D. B. ii. 291: ‘Et fuit in soca Regis. Postquam Briennus habuit, nullam consuetudinem reddidit in hundreto.’ Ibid. 240: ‘Hoc totum tenuit Lisius pro uno manerio; modo tenet Eudo successor illius et in T. R. E. soca et saca fuit in hundreto; set modo tenet Eudo.’—Ibid. 240 b: ‘Soca istius terre T. R. E. iacuit in Folsa Regis; modo habet Walterius [Giffardus].’—Ibid. 285 b: the hundred testified that in truth the King and Earl had the soke and sake in the Confessor’s day, but the men of the vill say that Burchard likewise (similiter) had the soke of his free men as well as of his villeins.
[379] D. B. i. 35 b: ‘Duo fratres tenuerunt T. R. E.; unusquisque habuit domum suam et tamen manserunt in una curia.’ Ibid. 103 b: ‘Ibi molendinum serviens curiae.’ Ibid. 103: ‘arabant et herciabant ad curiam domini.’
[380] D. B. i. 87 b. Kemble, Cod. Dip., iv. p. 233: ‘and þriwa secan gemot on 12 monðum.’