Swan of Essex2

HATFIELD BROAD OAK Hadfelda. Harold held Hatfield Broad Oak before 1066 as 1 manor, for 20 hides. Then 51 villagers, now 60; then 19 smallholders, now 30; then 20 slaves, now 22. Then 9 ploughs in lordship, now 8; 3 cobs, 40 cattle, 195 pigs, and 200 sheep less 7. Then 40 men's ploughs, now 31.5; this loss was in the time of all of the sheriffs and through the cattle plague.. Woodland, 800 pigs; meadow, 120 acres; pasture which pays 9 wethers in the manor; 41 acres of ploughland. To the church of this manor belonged 1 hide and 30 acres, which SWAN took away after he lost the Sheriffdom; this land paid the customary due to this manor. Before 1066, there also belonged to this manor 1 Freeman with half a hide, whom Geoffrey de Manderville took away; attached to this land is 1 villager with 1 acre which Count Eustace holds, value 4d. Also 30 acres which a smith, who was put to death on account of robbery, held before 1066, and the King's reeve added that land to this manor; also 40 acres of woodland which King Edward's reeve held; of which land and woodland Osmund of Anjou dispossessed the King's reeve and the manor. Robert Gernon now holds it, half a hide which 1 freeman held before 1066; Robert Gernon also holds this. Apart from this, 3 outliers were attached to this manor before 1066, HERTFORD, AMWELL and HODDESDON, Hertfordshire, and which Ralph of Limsey now holds. Also 1 freeman with 30 acres who also belonged to this manor. Value of the manor then Ł36; now Ł60, but the sheriff receives Ł80 from it, and 100s in gifts. Also the value then of the three outliers Ł12, the freeman's land 45s, Woodland, 40 pigs. Later on we received half a hide which 1 freeman of Harold's held before 1066; now Ralph de Marcy holds it in Hamo's Holding. Value the 10s, now 7s.
HALLINGBURY Halingeb(er)ia/heberia/Hallingeberia. Bishop of London; Walter from SWAN of ESSEX; Rogerd'Auberville; Martel and Hugh from Geoffrey de Manderville.
2 mills, 10 beehives, 2 foals, 30 goats.
Now 2 villages, Great and Little Hallingbury.
Hallingbury Place, a thatched cottage in Great Hallingbury was the home of William Parker, Baron Morley, who discovered the Gunpowder Plot.
Wallbury Camp, is an Iron Age settlement in Little Hallingbury.
HAWKWELL Hac(he)uvella/Hechuvella. Godfrey from SWAN of ESSEX; Pirot from Eudo the Steward; Eudo the Steward.
Village, 4 beehives, 6 cobs.
HOCKLEY Hacheleia/Hocheleia. Barking Abbey before and after 1066. Goldbold, Odo and Payne from SWAN of ESSEX.3 Mills, 10 beehives, 4 cobs, 300 sheep, 53 goats.
Now a London suburb. Church where Roman coins were found.
HORNDON Tor(n)induna. Bishop of Bayeux; Siric from SWAN of ESSEX;
Drago from William Peveral.
5 cows.
Now the hamlet of East Horndon and West Horndon absorbed in Ingrave. Anne Bolyn's head is said to lye in East Horndon church.