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Doding 4

Name

Summary

Doding 4 had an estate in south-east Middlesex TRE assessed at 1 virgate and with a probable value of 6s 8d; he was a dependent tenant of the bishop of London.

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 Middlesex	Phil. ref. 3,2	Vill Stepney	DB Spelling Dodingus	Holder 1066 Doding 'of Stepney'	Lord 1066 William, bishop of London	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Maurice, bishop of London	1086 Subtenant Hugh de Bernières	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.33	1086 Value 0.29	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Doding 4 is identified because although his name was extremely rare his estate was very small and, at about 30 miles, too far distant for any connection between him and the other men of that name TRE to be at all likely.

Doding 4’s estate was assessed at only 1 virgate yet included a mill. They were parts of the large vill of Stepney (Middlesex), named from what was then the only landing-place on the north bank of the River Thames to the east of London and where tidal mills are known to have existed among the marshes in the medieval period (Baker 1998: 5-7; Watts 2004: 574). His land lay among numerous estates at Stepney TRE, many of which, including the largest, were in the hands of the bishop of London (Kelly 2004: 86, 199). Doding’s estate was a part of the bishop’s manor and he was one of the bishop’s dependent tenants, unable to grant or sell his land without permission. It may be that he was responsible for running the mill on the bishop’s behalf and that his virgate was provided for the sustenance of himself and his family.

The value of Doding’s estate is not given explicitly in DB, being grouped together with two larger estates; but if the total value was divided in proportion to the assessments, Doding’s virgate would have been worth 6s 8d.

Bibliography

Baker 1998: A History of the County of Middlesex, Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green, ed. T. F. T. Baker, Victoria History of the Counties of England (Oxford, 1998)

Kelly 2004: Charters of St Paul’s, London, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 10 (Oxford, 2004)

Watts 2004: The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, ed. Victor Watts (Cambridge, 2004)