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Colswein 14

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Colswein 14 was one of 15 minor tenants on an estate of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Littlechurch.

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Colswein 14 is named in FBB (143v; p.43) among 15 minor tenants on an estate of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Littlechurch in the half-hundred of Cosford, roughly 16 miles to the south-east of Bury, in 1086; it is not clear as to which, if any, DB entry in the abbey’s fief this estate corresponds.  Colswein is the fifth name in the list but his holding of 5 acres (rendering 5d) is among the smallest half-dozen there.  It is possible that he is the same person as Colswein 15, named as a minor tenant on another Bury estate at Woolpit, although both holdings were tiny and therefore the distance of 12 miles between them precludes confidence in the identification.

Bibliography

FBB: ‘The Feudal Book of Baldwin, abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, 1065–1098, contained in the Black Book of the abbey, MS. Mm. iv. 19, fols. 124–43b. (Cambridge University Library)’, in Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, ed. D. C. Douglas, British Academy Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales, 8 (London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1932), 1–44