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  • Author: Francis Blomefield
  • Publisher: London, 1810
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  • Text: Tunstede Hundred: Bacton

    BACTON.
    This town was granted by the Conqueror, to Robert Mallet, one of his principal barons, lord of the honour of Eye in Suffolk, and at the survey was held of that honour by Rodbert. Edric was deprived of it.

    It consisted of 3 carucates of land, 14 villains, 3 borderers and 4 servi in the time of the Confessor, with 3 carucates in demean, 5 among the tenants, and 14 acres of meadow, paunage for 60 swine, 2 runci, one cow, &c. 180 sheep, and 16 goats. Twenty-eight socmen had 178 acres, and there were 10 carucates; 14 freemen also, and the moiety of another, possessed 2 carucates of land, and 33 acres; and 11 borderers had 10 carucates and an half, with 5 acres of meadow, valued at 110s. and what the free-men held at 40s.; it was one leuca long, and one broad, and paid 15d. gelt. (fn. 1)

    The ancient family of De Glanvile was soon after the Conquest enfeoffed by the Lord Mallet, of this valuable lordship. William de Glanville, son of Robert, held it in the reign of Henry I. from whom descended William de Glanvile, lord in the reign of Richard I. who dying sans issue. Jeffrey his brother succeeded him, and was lord of this town, Dallinghow, and Alderton in Suffolk, and left his inheritance at his death in the beginning of King Henry the Third's reign, to his five sisters and coheirs, among whom this lordship was divided, viz. —Agnes, the wife of Baldwin, a Norman;—Emma, to John de Grey; —Basilia, the third sister, married and left a daughter and heir, Isabel, who was the wife of William de Boyvill;—Elizabeth, was the wife of Almary Peche, and Juliana, the 5th, died s. p.

    1. Terre Roberti Malet—Baketuna tenet Rodt. qua' tenuit Edric. T. R. E. iii car. tre. tc. xiiii vill. mo. x et iii bord. t'nc. iiii ser. mo. iii semp. iii car. in d'nio. tnc. v car hom. p'. et mo xiiii ac. p'ti. silva lx porc. semp. ii mol. mo. ii r. eti an tc'. viii porc. mo. xiii t'nc. clxxx ov. mo. l. et xvi cap. et xxviii soc. clxxviii ac. t'nc. et p'. x car. mo. viiii et dim. et xiiii lib. ho'es et dim. ii car tre. et xxxiii ac. semp. xi bord. sep. x car. et dim. et v ac. p'ti. semp. val. cx sol. et lib. ho'es val. XL sol. et ht. i leug in long. et i leug. in lato. et xvd. de gelt.
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Basilia de GlanvileNameBasilia de Glanvile [S3211:340] [S3212:17]
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IsabellaNameIsabella [S3211:340] [S3212:17]
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William de BovillNameWilliam de Boyvill [S3211:340] [S3212:17]
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IsabellaMotherBasilia de Glanvile (e1160-) [S3211:340] [S3212:17]
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