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Manni 6

Name

Summary

Manni 6 was one of 18 minor tenants on a manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Hepworth, 10½ miles to the north-east of Bury, in 1086.

Profile

Manni 6 is named in FBB (141v; p. 40) among 18 minor tenants on a manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Hepworth, 10½ miles to the north-east of Bury, in 1086.  The corresponding DB entry records 20 free men with 3 villans and 4 slaves on the manor in 1086 but does not include their names.  FBB records Manni 6 as holding 3 acres (rendering 6d) in 1086, which was an above-average size among the holdings at Hepworth.  The implicit continuity of holdings between TRE (when the holders had power of alienation over their land but their commendation, sake and soke were in the abbey’s lordship) and 1086 in DB does not prove that Manni 6 already held his land before the Conquest, although the possibility cannot be ruled out.  There is no reason to consider Manni 6 in connection with anyone else of that or a similar name.

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