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An Account of the Township of Iffley in the Deanery of Cuddesdon, Osfordshire; From the Earliest Notice
An Account of the Township of Iffley in the Deanery of Cuddesdon Osfordshire From the Earliest Notice Author:Edward Marshall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: J. Parker Subjects: Iffley (England) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-B... more »ooks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. The Manors And Lands. TN the time of the Confessor, Iffley was held by Azor, a Saxon chief, probably son of Lefsi3, and father of Ulphb; and it afterwards became the property of Earl Alberic, to whom it was granted by the Conqueror. It has been doubted whether it can be determined who Earl Alberic, or Aubrey, is. But a recent writer3 of great authority considers that he is Alberic de Vere. The value of Iffley had somewhat decreased before the time of the Survey, as appears from the following entry in " Domesday Book :" -- " Earl Alberic held of the King Givetelei : there are four hides: the land is of six carucates: and five serfs and fourteen villeins with six bordars have four carucates: there is a fishery of four shillings : and twenty-four acres of meadow and one quarentine of pasture: wood two quarantines in length and in breadth: it was worth one hundred shillings : now four pounds: Azor held it freely in the time of King Edward." This is a very similar statement of quantity with the extent, as already mentioned, of 472 acres, 3 roods, and 26 poles. The hide, which is commonly supposedto be of 120 acres, is as much as one plough with its beasts would suffice to cultivate in a year, and is the Saxon measure of land. The carucate, which is to be interpreted, the plough-land, is also as much as one plough with its beasts would cultivate in a year, and is the Norman measure, with a view to assessment. The value of money is usually estimated at thirty times its amounte. Domesday Book; Northamptonsh., f. 223. b Baker, Northam...« less