Clapham, with its common and environs : containing an historical and topographical description of the parish and manor, principally extracted from parochial documents, with a catalogue of indigenous plants growing in the neighbourhood, list of population, rates, and other parochial occurrences, from 1603 to 1827, and a list of the inhabitants, corrected to 1841 . MANOR, &c. 51 Domesday, Tab. XII.—Goisfrid de Manneville holdsClopeliam. Turburn held it of King Edward. Thenit was taxed for 10 Hides [1000 acres], now for 3 Arable Land consists of 7 Carrucates [700 acres].In Demesne there
Clapham, with its common and environs : containing an historical and topographical description of the parish and manor, principally extracted from parochial documents, with a catalogue of indigenous plants growing in the neighbourhood, list of population, rates, and other parochial occurrences, from 1603 to 1827, and a list of the inhabitants, corrected to 1841 . MANOR, &c. 51 Domesday, Tab. XII.—Goisfrid de Manneville holdsClopeliam. Turburn held it of King Edward. Thenit was taxed for 10 Hides [1000 acres], now for 3 Arable Land consists of 7 Carrucates [700 acres].In Demesne there is 1 Carriicate ajid 8 Villans, and 3Bordars with 5 Carrucates. There are 5 acres of Mea-dow. In the time of King Edward it was worth 10^[600/.] ; afterwards the same ; now 71- lOs, Od. [450/.]The Inquest of the Hundred say that Goisfrid has thisManor unjustly, because it does not belong to the landof Asgar; but that Goisfrid gave of this Manor in almsto the value of 20 shillings [60/.] ; [but it is not said towhom it was given]. It appears by the above that GeoflFrey de Mandevillewas in possession at the time of the Survey ; but heheld it unjustly, because it did not belong to the land ofAsgar. It seems therefore that Geoffrey had had aGrant of Asgars lands, and under pretext of that, tookpossession of Clopeham, though it had never beenAsgars. He
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