Sulungs of the manor of the monks and bishop c.1235
Sulungs of the manor of the monks and bishop c.1235
September 7, 2022Translation from Latin of Custumale Roffense, folios 10r-10v by Jacob Scott (pending review).
A sulung is a measurement of land used during the medieval period in the area of Kent. The term originates from the Anglo-Saxon period but obviously continues into the later medieval period. A sulung was approximately twice the size of a hide, the typical land measurement used elsewhere in England. The modern equivalent to a sulung is about 60 acres. Dictionary of Medieval Terms, ‘sulong’.
Transcription
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De sullingis ist maniorum monachorum et episcopi Roffensis. Suthfliet defendit se pro V sulingis cum dimidium
sulingii de Pole. Hoc manerium est in hundredo de
Hakestane. Denuit defendit se pro sulingis. Frendesberi
defendit se pro septem sulingis. Cum uno sulingis de Bromhethe,
et cum dimimdium sulingis de Heselingeham, et dimidium sulingis
de Wicham, et cum Adam pincerna et Grenestrete dimidium
sulingum Thorindini, dimidium sulingum. Stanes defendit
se pro II squatuor. Longefeld pro uno. Faucheham defendit se pro
duobus sulingis. Hec maneria sunt in hundredo de Hacstane.
Brumlega defendit pro tribus sulingis, et hoc idem est maneri-
um est ipse hundredus Mallinges defendit se pro sulingo et
dimidio. Rotesclive defendit se pro uno sulingo. Snodilande
defendit se pro tribus sulungis.
Hec maneria sunt in hundredo
de Lanerkefeld. Hallinge defendit se pro duobus sulingis
et dimidium. Coclestane defendit se pro duobus sulingis.
Hec maneria sunt in hundredo de Schamele. Borestalle
defendit se pro sulingo et dimidio. Wldham defedendit
se pro tribus sulingis cum sullino de parua Wldham.
Et dimidio sullino Robertus nepotis. Stokes defendit se
pro tribus sulingis et dimidium cum terra hugonis.
Translation
Concerning the Sulungs of the manor of the monks and Bishop of Rochester:
Southfleet is assessed at 5 sulungs with half a sulung from Pole.
This manor is in the hundred of Hakestane.
Nuuit is assessed at one sulung.
Frindsbury is assessed at seven sulungs.
With one shilling of Bromhethe, and with half a shilling of Heslingeham, and half a shilling of Wicham, and with Adam the butler and Greenstreet half a sulungs of Thorindin, half a shilling.
Stanes is assessed at 2 sulungs. Longefeld for one. Faucheham is assessed at 2 sulungs.
These are the manors in the hundred of Hacstane.
Brumlega is assessed at for three sulungs, and this same manor in the same hundred Mallinges is assessed at one shilling and a half.
Rotescliff is assessed at for one sulung. Snodilande is assessed at three sulungs.
These manors are in the hundred of Lanerkefeld.
Halling is assessed at two and a half sulungs.
Coclestane is assessed at two sulungs.
These manors are in the hundred of Schamele.
Borstal is assessed at one shilling and a half.
Wouldham is assessed at three sulung with a short sulung from Wouldham. And a half-sulung to his nephew Robert.
Stokes is assessed at three and a half sulung with the land of Hugo.
