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Holdings

The following buildings within the site of the manor of Dodford: a chamber called `le nurcerye' with 1/3 garden east of it and separate use of a latrine next the chamber; `le olde deyhous' with free ingress and egress by the door at the end of the hall there; `le spynnynghous' with a piece of land annexed to it containing 20 feet on the east side of the hall with free entry and exit by the doors of the hall at permitted and convenient times; a small kitchen on the north side of the large kitchen; `le deyhous' on the north side of the hall, the chamber above it and a little building west of it; `le carterstable' next `le garet'; `le baillyschambre' with 1/3 garden south of it called `le rekeyerde'; a grange next the churchyard called `le whetebern'; 4 bays of the `shepynhous' abutting the king's highway on the east with free ingress and egress by all the doors to the places named above. Annual value of all the above nil.Also within the site, separate use whenever and as often as she requires it of the following: `le bakehous', brewern, malt-kiln, `larderhous' and well with free ingress and egress; the principal pond in the orchard whenever she needs to draw water for brewing and other necessities with free ingress and egress by the gates, ways and paths to it formerly reserved to the executors of Henry de Bello Monte and heir of John Cressy , doing as little damage as possible to the young fish in it when fishing from the banks; 1/3 profits of the bakehouse or oven, water-mill and dovecot provided that she satisfies the executors of Henry and the heir of John Cressy in the matter of repairs to them; `le Overforyerd' and `le Netherforyerd' for keeping her animals, grinding her corn and all her other needs, provided that the executors of Henry de Bello Monte and John Cressy son and heir of John Cressy are disturbed as little as possible by her occupation of them. Also within the site: a granary in `le garnerhouse' on the north side next the door leading to the room above, and the empty [?dovecot] in the same building extending the breadth of the granary from the north to the west with free entry and exit; a lower chamber between `le garnerhous' and `le swyncote'; a building called `le boterie' behind the door of the hall of the lodge in `Dodesfordwode'; 1/3 fishery in the great pond next `le herber' with nets and other equipment for fishing; 1/3 orchard west of the site of the manor and 1/3 of the same orchard in the west part of `le asshyerde' as delineated by metes and bounds, annual value 2s. 6d.; 1/3 garden next the churchyard opposite the belfry on the east; 1/3 pasture in the east part of `le herber' as shown by metes and bounds; a piece of pasture called `Bullokeslesowe'; another pasture called `le churchyerde'; a piece of wood in `Dodfordwode' lying in `Foxholes' and `le Castell' as far as `le Brodemore' as appears by metes and bounds; and 1/3 lodge there containing 3 bays on the east side called `bullokeshouse', annual value 13s. 1 1/2 knight's fee in Brockhall and Muscott formerly of Robert Tirwhit , worth 150s. when it occurs; the following demesne arable, meadow and pasture: 27 roods of arable in the east part of `Stretfurlonge', annual value 4s. 6d.; 18 roods of arable in the south part of `Brerefurlonge', annual value 2s. 3d.; 9 roods of arable in the west part of `le Farthyng' and a piece of pasture in `le Launde cum Cotewell Leyes', annual value 3s. 4d.; 12 roods of arable abutting `le Gretethorn' in `...mede', annual value 12d.; 2 roods of arable with a headland on the west headland of those roods lying in `Fyveacres', annual value 3d.; 10 roods pasture in `Barneswell' next the king's highway, annual value 6d.; 49 roods of arable with a close called `Midelstretefurlonge' opposite `Newenhamcrosse', annual value 3s. 4d.; 44 roods of arable abutting `le herber', annual value 4s.; 40 roods of arable in `le Lytelbrynk', annual value 3s. 4d.; a piece of pasture `betwene the dykes' next the great pond, annual value 2d.; 1/3 piece of pasture in the north part of `Sydehale', annual value 4s.; 11 roods of meadow in the south part of `le Sydehale', annual value 6s. 8d.; 10 roods of meadow in the south part of `Sixteneyerdes', annual value 8s.; 10 roods of meadow in the south part of `le Eghteneyerdes', annual value 10s.; 9 roods of meadow in the north part of `le Berearse', annual value 12d.; 2 1/2 a. meadow in `Cotespole', annual value 6s.; and 1/2 a. meadow in `le Longerede', annual value 16d.; the following rents: from free tenants: 1/3 of 1/2 lb. pepper yearly at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist from lands and tenements formerly held by John Davy which Henry Michell , Roger Knyght , Maud Bailly and others hold in Dodford, now worth 3d.; 2 1/2d. rent yearly from lands and tenements formerly held by John Berughby which William Cheneye holds in `Over-heyford'; 8d. rent at Easter and 1 lb. pepper at Christmas from the messuage of Henry Michell called `Wardeslonde'; 13s. 4d. rent yearly from lands and tenements of the abbot of Pipewell in Elkington paid at the two usual terms; 5s. rent at the same terms from 1/3 tenement in Floore called `Todenham' now of Thomas Yonge ; 4s. rent at the same terms from lands and tenements in Astrop formerly of William Bedford but now of Thomas Somerton and his wife Emma, daughter and heir of William Bedford ; and 20d.rent at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions from lands and tenements in Harlestone called `Burgeysthyng' now held by Laurence Dyne ; from customary tenants: a messuage and virgate which Thomas Geskyn, the lord's neif , holds in Dodford, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which Henry Geskyn, the lord's neif , holds, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which William Geskyn, the lord's neif , holds, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which Henry Davy holds at will, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which John South holds at will for 18s. yearly; a messuage and 1/4 virgate which Roger Godewyn holds at will for 8s. 6d. yearly; a messuage and piece of arable which William Shaile holds at will for 9s. yearly; a messuage and 1/2 virgate which Lettice Webbe, the lord's neif , holds for 9s. yearly; a messuage and 1/2 virgate which William Gybbe holds at will for 10s. 8d. yearly; 1/2 virgate and a piece of arable which Thomas Geskyn holds at will, annual value 10s.; a croft and other arable lands which Henry Geskyn holds at will for 11s. 8d. yearly; a piece of arable which John South holds at will for 4s. 6d. yearly; a messuage and virgate which John Trabber holds for life for 16s. yearly; another messuage and virgate which the same John holds, also for 16s. yearly; 3 a. arable which the same John holds at will, annual value 3s.; a cottage which John Botiller holds at will for 2s. 2d. yearly; 14s. 6d. quit-rent yearly at the usual terms from a messuage, virgate and 1/2 virgate which William Yonge holds; 4d. annual rent at the same terms from a piece of arable called `Westlond' now held by William Maistre ; a toft which William Parnell holds at will for 8d. yearly; and 1/2 a. arable on `Shetysshbrok' abutting Brockhall, annual value 2d.; 1/3 perquisites of 2 views of frankpledge, provided that Christine pays the fees and expenses due from her portion to the duke of Lancaster and his officials.