Land of the Abbot of Ely

MANOR. Epintone (Impington) answers for six hides and a half.

• There is land to six ploughs.

• Three hides and a half are in the demesne, and there is half a plough there, and one plough and a half may be made.

• There is one villane and seven borders with two ploughs, and two may be made.

• There are seven cottagers, and one bondman; meadow for two ploughs.

• It is and was worth forty shillings; in the time of King Edward eight pounds.

• This manor lies, and always laid, in the demesne of the Church of Ely.

Land of Picot, sheriff of Cambridge

Walter holds of Picot three hides and a half in Epintone (Impington).

• There is land to three ploughs, and they are there with four borders and four cottagers; meadow for one plough.

• In the whole it is worth sixty shillings; when received, fifty shillings; in the time of King Edward, four pounds.

• Three sokemen held this land of the Abbot of Ely.

  • Two of these had one virgate and a half; they might sell it, but the soke remained to the Abbot. But the third had two hides and one virgate; but he could not sell it.

Definitions used:

• Hide –

  • Reckoned in the Domesday Book to be about 120 fiscal acres

• Virgate

  • One quarter of a hide

• Hundred

  • Administrative district whose assembly of notables and village representatives usually met once a month

• Plough

  • Usually a plough team with 8 oxen and a plough

For more information, see the Domesday Book