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Moding 2

Name

Summary

Moding 2 held two small manors in south-east Essex TRE assessed at 3¾ hides and with a probable value of £5.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 25,10	Vill Acleta	DB Spelling Modinc	Holder 1066 Moding 'of Down'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Eudo the steward	1086 Subtenant Richard de Sackville	Fiscal Value 1.58	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence C	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 25,8	Vill Down	DB Spelling Modinc	Holder 1066 Moding 'of Down'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Eudo the steward	1086 Subtenant Richard de Sackville	Fiscal Value 2.17	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Moding 2 held two manors on the Dengie peninsula in south-east Essex, of which the larger was at Down in the north-west of the peninsula.  His other manor was at Acleta, an as-yet-unidentified place in the same hundred; the name probably represents Old English āc-hliðe ‘(at the) oak hillside’ (Rumble 1983: 25,10 Notes).  The estates were thus clearly in fairly close proximity, both were of similar size and both passed to the same post-Conquest successor, Eudo 2 the steward; and these factors, combined with the extreme rarity of Moding’s name, make it probable that both manors were held by the same man.

From the details in DB it is apparent that Moding’s manors were both predominantly involved with sheep-farming, although there was a handful of cattle and pigs as well.  Arable farming was limited, with just a single plough-team on each manor, and the numbers of dependent peasant households were correspondingly small: just two bordars and two slaves at Down and only one bordar at Acleta.

It is probable that these were Moding 2’s only estates.  However, because of his rare name and a possible connection between Eudo 2 and land in Bedfordshire where Moding 3 held a tiny estate (Palmer et al. 2002: DB Beds. 28,1 Notes), it is conceivable that Moding 2 and Moding 3 were the same man; but the link is tenuous and the men’s estates were over 60 miles apart.

Bibliography

Rumble 1983: Domesday Book 32: Essex, ed. A. Rumble (Chichester, 1983)

Palmer et al. 2002: J. Palmer, F. Thorn and C. Thorn, and N. Hodgson, Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086, 2nd edn (2002), currently published online by the UK Data Service https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue?sn=5694