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  • Hundred: Babergh
  • County: Suffolk
  • Total population: 32 households (quite large).
  • Total tax assessed: 4.8 exemption units (quite large).
  • Taxable units: Taxable value 4.8 exemption units. 10.0 villtax. Taxed on 4.5.
  • Value: Value to lord in 1066 £5. Value to lord in 1086 £7. Value to lord c. 1070 £5.
  • Households: 6 villagers. 13 smallholders. 4 slaves. 9 freemen.
  • Ploughland: 2 lord's plough teams. 3.5 men's plough teams.
  • Other resources: Meadow 8 acres. Woodland 10 pigs. 1 mill. 1 church. 0.25 church lands.
  • Livestock in 1066: 17 cattle. 60 pigs. 80 sheep. 2 horses at the hall.
  • Livestock in 1086: 11 cattle. 37 pigs. 22 sheep. 1 .
  • Lord in 1066: Godwin son of Alfhere.
  • Lord in 1086: Hubert (of Mont-Canisy).
  • Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Robert Malet.
  • Phillimore reference: 6,1

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