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and later information on the revenues of the See. The entries relating to the transactions of the Bishop with the Italian firm of the Bellardi possess some historic value, and the payments made to various servants and others in journeys to Carlisle and other places, with records of the See, and doubtless with money also, afford some information respecting the Bishop's recovery of his temporalities.

To these documents have been

added a few charters, some already in print, others not, which will be found in their respective places, to fill up the sketch of which Boldon Buke gives the grand outline. The Editor regrets his inability to bring forward other charters, which would have been of equal importance with those printed; such must have existed, but they have either been destroyed, or are in private hands, and inaccessible. An extract from Bishop Hatfield's Survey, relating to the Manor of Boldon, follows; it is given as showing the change in tenure and services which had taken place in the interval, between Boldon Buke and the date of that record.

One important part of the book remains to be mentioned. The Editor presents the Glossary to the reader with great diffidence. He has spared no pains in his endeavours to gain a clear view of many of the terms of which he has offered an explanation, but he is aware of the defects in his attempt, and how much it needs the charitable consideration of those who possess more knowledge on the subject of feudal terms and tenures than he can pretend to.

It remains to acknowledge the assistance given in various ways to the work. The thanks of the Society are due to the Bishop of Durham for leave to print from the manuscript in his Auditor's Office; to the Dean and Chapter of Durham for liberty to collate the copy in their Registrum Primum, and for copies of most of the charters printed in the Appendix. The Editor begs to acknowledge the kindness of Henry Greenwell, Esq., Deputy Auditor of the Bishop of Durham, and W. C. Chaytor, Esq., Registrar of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, in affording him every facility for transcription. He is indebted to James Raine, Esq., for much trouble taken in collation; and to John Hodgson Hinde, Esq., for very important information on drengage and cornage, indeed every thing that is valuable on these articles in the Glossary is due to him. Above all, he must express his grateful thanks to the Rev. James Raine, the facile princeps of Northern antiquaries, for much kindness and advice whilst Boldon Buke and the translation were preparing; that he has the approbation of so great a master in things of old time, in this his first essay in antiquity, is not the least satisfactory fruit of his work, and he hopes that this attempt may not be unworthy of the opportunities which have fallen to the lot of one who has enjoyed the guidance and instruction of the Historian of North Durham.

WILLIAM GREENWELL.

HATFIELD HALL,

June 5th, 1852.

SUPERVISUS

TEMPORE HUGONIS EPISCOPI DESCRIPTUS

QUI VOCATUR

BOLDON BUKE.

ANNO Incarnationis Dominicæ millesimo centesimo octogesimo tertio, ad festum Sancti Cuthberti in Quadragesima, fecit Dominus Hugo Dunolmensis Episcopus in presentia sua et suorum describi omnes redditus totius Episcopatus sui sicut tunc erant, et1 assisas et consuetudines sicut tunc erant et ante fuerant.

Erat autem Civitas Dunolm. ad firmam et reddebat xxiv. marcas. Molendina ejusdem villæ et de Queringdonshire xxxvj. marcas. Cunei* monetæ solebant reddere x. marcas, sed Dominus Rex Henricus secundus, per cuneos quos in Novo Castello primum posuit, redditus x. marcarum usque ad iij. marcas diminuit, et ad ultimum cuneos, a multis retro tempo

1 B. C. omit 'sicut tunc erant, et."

2 B. C. lx.

* It is unknown when the Episcopal mint was first established; it must, however, have existed for many years previous to the compiling of this record, as is evident from the words 'a multis retro temporibus.' Coins of William I. or II., minted at Durham, have been found, but those are probably from the Royal mint there. From the entry in Boldon Book it appears that the privilege of coining had been taken away from the Bishop, perhaps by the general act of resumption in the first year of Henry I. (1154). It was not restored till the year 1196, when Richard I. gave licence to Bishop Philip de Pictavia to coin money. The site of the mint was on the east side of the Palace Green, as we learn from a survey of Bishop Skirlaw, which confirms the tradition, that the mint occupied the place where the Bishop's stables now stand.

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ribus habitos, abstulit. Terra Raginaldi fullonis in eadem villa 3s. Terra Lefwyny præpositi ultra aquam juxta pratum 16d. Terra Gualeranni3 de Cestria ibidem 8d. Turstinus de capella tenet j. toftum juxta virgultum Domini Episcopi de accommodatione et elemosina ipsius Episcopi. Furnum de eadem villa2 x. marcas.

Willelmus quondam Abbas de Burgo tenet Newtonam juxta Dunolm.* de accommodatione et elemosina Domini Episcopi, et reddit pro medietate dominii, quam Ricardus * ingeniator tenuit, j. marcam. Radulphus, clericus, tenet in eadem villa xxiv.6 acras, tam de terra, quæ fuit Roberti Tic', quam de assartis quæ Episcopus ei dedit in escambium pro ij. bovatis de Midilham, pro 40d., sed quietus est de hoc redditu dum est in servitio Domini Episcopi. Plausword, quam Simon Vitulus † tenet,9 20s., et quadrigat vinum cum viij. bobus, et vadit in magna caza cum ij. leporariis.

Gatesheued, cum burgo et 10 molendinis et 10 piscariis et furnis et cum tribus partibus terræ arabilis de eadem villa, reddit lx. marcas. Quarta pars terræ arabilis, cum assartis quæ Dominus Episcopus fieri fecit, et prata sunt in manu Domini Episcopi cum instauramento 11 ij. carrucarum. Terra Osmundi reddit 22s. 6d.

Parva Useworth, quam Willelmus tenet, reddit 10s., et quadrigat vinum cum viij. bobus, et vadit in magna caza cum ij. leporariis.

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* Richard was a man of some note in his profession; he was employed by Bishop Pudsey about the repair of Norham Castle. Reginald, in his Life of St. Cuthbert (Surtees Soc.), ch. 47, 54, tells an interesting story about him, and says, 'Cunctis, regionis hujus incolis arte et nomine notissimus est.' He and his heir, Thomas, granted land in Wolviston to the Prior and Convent of Durham in exchange for a carucate of land in Pittington.

† Mentioned in the Life of St. Godric (Surtees Soc.), ch. 221, under the name of Simundus de Veel, 'Miles cunctis in hac regione notissimus.' In a charter of Bishop Pudsey to Hugh Burel of lands in Windegate, among the witnesses occur 'Roger Vitulus et Simon, nepos suus.'

Charter. Appendix, No. III.

Bedyk1 Ulkilli facit servitium sextæ partis feodi unius militis.

[Johannes filius Eustacii et Alexander frater ejus, de West Aukland, qui fuerunt irretiti de servitute, quieti sunt per patriam.

Gilbertus filius Umfridi de Dunolm. tenet in mora de Newbotill xxxiv. acras terræ sibi et heredibus in perpetuum, reddendo annuatim Scaccario Dunolm. 28s. 4d., ad iv. terminos statutos in Episcopatu Dunolm., et habebit viij. boves in mora de Newbotill per cartam quam habet de Domino Episcopo.

Rogerus filius Roberti Bernard tenet xlviij. acras in Helmygdene per divisas, sicut in carta quam habet de Domino Waltero Episcopo Dunolm. plenius continetur, reddendo 10s. ad Scaccarium Dunolm., ad iv. terminos in Episcopatu Dunolm. constitutos.] *

Cestria, cum villanis et dominio sine instauramento, et cum piscariis et molendino de eadem villa, reddit xxiv. marcas. Molendinum de Urpath est ad firmam, et reddit iv. marcas. Pelhou et medietas de Piktre, quasque Gualerannus 3 de Cestria tenet, reddit ij. marcas.

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Willelmus de Hertburna habet Wassyngtonam, excepta Ecclesia et terra ad Ecclesiam pertinente, in escambium pro villa de Hertburna, quam propter hoc quietam clamavit, et reddit 47., et vadit in magna caza cum ij. leporariis, et quando commune auxilium venerit debet dare unam marcam ad plus de auxilio.

In Boldona sunt xxij. villani, quorum unusquisque tenet ij. bovatas, de xxx. acris, et reddit 2s. 6d. de scatpenynges et dimidiam scatcheldram & de avena, et 16d. de averpenys,9 et v. quadrigatas de wodlades, et ij. gallinas, et x. ova, et operatur per totum annum iij. diebus in ebdomada, excepta septimana

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*The clauses included within brackets are not found in B. C. From the mention of Bishop Walter, it is evident they formed no part of the original

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