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Ingold 8 was among the 15 minor tenants on the Bury St Edmunds Abbey manor at Walsham Le Willows in 1086.
Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB
List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB
Ingold 8 is named in FBB (39) among 15 minor tenants on the estate of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Walsham Le Willows, 10 miles to the east-north-east of Bury, in 1086. The corresponding DB entry records 30 free men on the estate in 1086 (of whom 10 were under the abbey’s subtenant Robert Blund (Robert 59)) but does not include their names. The DB entry also notes that the men ‘could give and sell their land’, indicating that they had power of alienation over their tiny holdings, although the sake and soke and their commendation belonged to the abbey. Ingold 8 occurs as the second name in the list and held 9 acres (rendering 12d), which was one of the three largest such holdings there. The implicit continuity of holdings between TRE and 1086 in DB need not imply that Ingold 8 already held his land before the Conquest, although the possibility cannot be ruled out.
Bibliography
FBB: ‘The Feudal Book of Baldwin, abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, 1065–1098, contained in the Black Book of the abbey, MS. Mm. iv. 19, fols. 124–43b. (Cambridge University Library)’, in Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, ed. D. C. Douglas, British Academy Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales, 8 (London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1932), 1–44
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