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Lutting 4

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Lutting 4 was among 61 minor tenants on the estate of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Hessett in 1086.

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Lutting 4 is named in FBB (30) among 61 minor tenants on the estate of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Hessett, just over 5¼ miles to the east-south-east of Bury, in 1086; the corresponding DB entry records 60 free men on the estate TRE and in 1086 but does not include their names. Lutting had slightly less land than the average among the minor tenants at Hessett, holding 5 acres and rendering 5d with service. Nevertheless, his extremely rare name renders it likely that he was the same man as the Lutting who, with Leofgeat, was recorded in FBB (27) as sharing 7 acres (rendering 8d) at Pakenham, another of the abbey’s estates about 4 miles to the north of Hessett. Lutting and Leofgeat may have been brothers, because a further 12 acres at Pakenham were recorded as being held by ‘Leofgeat and his brothers’. The possible continuity of holdings at both estates between TRE and 1086 implicit in the DB entries need not mean that Lutting 4 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