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Sælida 3

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Sælida 3 was one of 112 tenants on the manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Rougham near Bury in 1086.

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Sælida 3 is named in FBB (136v) among 112 minor tenants on the manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Rougham, 3¾ miles to the east-south-east of Bury, in 1086. The corresponding DB entry records 90 free men and 11 bordars (and 1 slave) on the non-demesne part of the manor in 1086 but does not include their names. FBB records Sælida 3 as holding 12 acres at Rougham (rendering 10d) in 1086. Given the extreme rarity of the name Sælida it is very probable that Sælida 3 was also the person named in FBB (140) as holding 4 acres (rendering 4d) on another of the Bury estates, this time at Fornham St Genevieve, less than 3 miles from Bury and 6¼ miles from Rougham. The implicit continuity of holdings between TRE and 1086 in DB does not prove that Sælida already held his lands before the Conquest, although the possibility cannot be ruled out.

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