1 To be “in lot and scot” is in modern phrase “to pay rates.”
2 I.e., if he be killed.
3 Date unknown.
4 I.e., “alms.” To hold in “almoin” is to hold by the sole service of prayers for the grantor.
5 The hide was at once a measure of land normally consisting of about 120 acres, and a fiscal unit; a Domesday manor containing ten hides for purposes of taxation might comprise a larger area than 1,200 acres.
6 A socman holds land by the service of attending the lords’ court or soke.
7 Highway robbery.
8 Housebreaking.
9 I.e., the precincts, one mile and a half round.
10 I.e., from all national and local burdens, whether financial, judicial, or otherwise.
11 Rights of jurisdiction.
12 Toll.
13 Right to summon possessors of stolen property to name the person from whom they received it.
14 Apprehension of offenders.
15 Payment for watch and ward.
16 Market, fair, and port tolls.
17 Fine for housebreaking.
18 Highway robbery and the fine due for the same.
19 Fine for bloodshedding.
20 Fine for bastardy.
21 This clause, from “with sac and soc” to “larceny,” grants to the abbey full rights of jurisdiction, with tolls, and fines for the offences specified.
22 William of St. Karileph, Bishop of Durham, accused of participation in the rebellion of Bishop Odo.
23 Dispossessed.
24 Charged with.
25 I.e., an absolute possession, free from all feudal service.
26 The chronicler and the archbishop.
27 Dishbearer to the royal household.
28 I.e., by lavish bribery.
29 A toll on travellers.
30 A toll on cargoes.
31 A soke is a court and an area of jurisdiction.
32 The money-value set on a man if he were killed.
33 The fine for changing the ground of an action once begun in court.
34 Literally, a chess-board.
35 In actual coin.
36 I.e., agreements with the crown touching feudal payments.
37 Matilda the Empress.
38 On the other hand, the author of Gesta Stephani states: “The king ordered that the two bishops should be separately confined in foul places and tortured with sharp fasting, and that the chancellor, son of the bishop of Salisbury, now seized and thrown into chains, should be hanged in front of the castle gate, unless the bishop of Ely should surrender the castle and admit the king’s force.”
39 This account does not agree with that of Henry of Huntingdon, who states that he was taken by William de Kahaines, after his battle-axe and sword had broken.
40 Dish-bearer.