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Toli 7

Name

Summary

Toli 7 was a median thegn in west Kent, holding of his land from King Edward. He had one manor of 1 sulung worth £6 alone, and shared another, of 5 sulungs worth £12, with another thegn, giving an estimated total of 3½ sulungs worth £12.

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 Kent	Phil. ref. 5,105	Vill Higham	DB Spelling Toli	Holder 1066 Toli ‘of Higham’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Adam fitzHubert	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 6.00	1086 Value 7.50	Confidence -	Map
Shire Kent	Phil. ref. 5,24	Vill St Mary Cray	DB Spelling Toli	Holder 1066 Toli ‘of Higham’	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Adam fitzHubert	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 6.00	1086 Value 10.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

At 18 miles apart, Higham and St Mary Cray are quite far from one another for their holders to be identified as the same person with overwhelming confidence. Both places passed to Bishop Odo, but his lands in Kent were so extensive that common succession does not prove anything. It is more suggestive that Bishop Odo then gave both to Adam fitzHubert, since there is other evidence that Odo kept Englishmen’s estates intact when parcelling them out among his own knights: Adam, for example, also received the five manors of Turgis which had fallen to Bishop Odo.

That being so, it may be significant that the two manors provided complementary resources. Higham, which was divided between Toli and Godwine son of Carl (Godwine ), stood at the base of the Hoo peninsula 4 miles north of Rochester and had extensive arable lying between its Thames-side marshes and the wooded ridge of Hoo at Higham Upshire (Everitt 1986: 284, 292, map 15 at 288, 290); in 1086 the manor also included pasture for 200 sheep across the estuary in Essex. St Mary Cray, well up the Cray valley at about 160 feet, had its own woodland pastures in the North Downs which encircled the valley (Everitt 1986: 75, 148, 150, 151). On balance, the two manors probably belonged to the same Toli. They were too far from any other Tolis for further identifications to be plausible.

Bibliography

Everitt 1986: Alan Everitt, Continuity and Colonization: The Evolution of Kentish Settlement (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1986)