Seeing how the history of England, and specifically Belchamp Walter, the "holding" of the lands seemed to
depend on the allegiances of those involved with what the Normans were up to in the 11th and 12th Centuries.
It may be a stretch, but the name Montecanyso is very similar to Montecassino (the monastery in central Italy),
where the Normans were active in the 11th Century.
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In the Confessor's time Godwin son of Alfer held under the King 4 carucates of land as a manor with soc.
There was a church
living with 30 acres of free land. The details of the holding were as follows : 10 villeins, 7 bordars, 6 slaves,
3 ploughteams in demesne, 6 belonging to the men, 8 acres of meadow, wood for 10 hogs, a winter mill, 2 horses
at the Hall,
17 beasts, 60 hogs, 80 sheep, all valued at 100 shillings.
At the time of the Great Survey the value had risen considerably, for it was placed at 7 pounds, the manor being
then held by Hubert of Robert Malet the tenant in chief. The villeins had by degrees come down first to 9 and
then to 6, but the
bordars had increased by 6. There were 2 fewer slaves and the ploughteams in demesne were only two and those of the
men but 3, while there was but one horse at the Hall.
One looks in vain for any evidence of actual rise in value in these figures, and besides there were but n
beasts in place of
17, 37 hogs in place of 60 and 22 sheep in lieu of 80.
In this place there were also 9 socmen having half a carucate of land, with formerly a whole ploughteam but then
but half a
team, all included in the above valuation. The manor was 6 quanxntenes in length and 6 in breadth and paid in a
gelt lod.
whoever the tenant might be
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