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Posted by priscilla (U1793779) on Friday, 2nd November 2007
Some time back I asked what a borderman was having seen it in a quote about the D.B. Now I've bought a tome (1952) about East Anglia. From this I learned much - however there was no glossary.
So what did stokemen do?
Few women were noted - washerwomen for the Abbey at Bury St Edmonds.
Is it assumed that the lists of people mean only the head of a family?
It must be so. My home town had 23 priests and only 42 others recorded there in 1086. Yet it mentions 180 houses. So was someone telling porkies to the jurors doing the recording?
And the town belonged to the king. Was that common?
What sort of horse was a Rouncey? Essex declared 790 of them.
Suffolk claimed to having 140 wild horses. Were wild horse widespread at that time?
That's enough for this time but there are more such fascinating revelations.... especially about woodland... if anyone is interested. you got bogged down in Ireland on the last thread.
Regards P.
Hi priscilla
Is there any chance that 'stokeman' was actually 'sokeman'. A sokeman was a curious sort of tennant found, I believe in parts of the old Danelaw. This would fit East Anglia of course. In Danish times he was free to offer his loyalty to any Jarl he wished. I think by the time of the DB he occupied a position halfway between a tied peasant and a freeman. But you will need one of the messageboard's medievalists to learn more.
Best wishes,
TP
Sokeman, of course.
Thanks, P.
Rouncey - general purpose riding horse, IIRC.
Are you concentrating on the "little" Domesday? Your references to East Anglia suggest you may be. Isn't it a lot more detailed than the "Great" Domesday?
I'm readin an amalgamation and comparison of data from the two. The reader is assumed to be well informed... not for the faint hearted.
Thanks for info.
I had hoped that it would turn out to be a plough horse/Suffolk Punch type - but these came in much later, I suppose.
The data reveals far less than was obviously used eg donkeys. I must try to find a book filled with data lists of both books.
Regards P.
The main plough animal in the eleventh century was the ox. They were usually employed in units of four at a time.
The Suffolk Punch did not develop as a breed until the eighteenth century.
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