“There are 24 fishermen belonging to this manor at Gernemutha (Yarmouth) and a beruita (or subordinate manor) in Lothu Wistoft (Lowestoft). {14} It contains four carucates. In King Edward’s time there were five villani (bond tenants of the upper class)—now only three. Both then and now there are ten cottage tenants. Then there were five servi (slaves), now only three. Then and now there are two ploughs employed on the demesne (the Kings own land). In Edward’s time the tenants employed five ploughs on their land, now only three. There is woodland for eight pigs, and five acres of pasture. In King Edward’s time there were thirteen geese, now only eight. There were then and now ten pigs, and 150 sheep.” We have here the account of a small estate, comprising some 400 or 500 acres of cultivated land, of which part was in demesne, and cultivated for the King, and the rest was comprised in one or two large open fields, which were divided into allotments, and cultivated by the tenants for themselves, all of whom could have their little homesteads, and their shares in the plough-oxen, and other live stock kept on the land. This estate had not passed from the hands of the Saxon Earl Gurth to those of William without disturbance. Three of the villani and two slaves had disappeared. They had, perhaps, been in Earl Gurth’s army, and had fallen with him at Hastings. Several acres of land had fallen out of cultivation, and though the pigs and sheep had remained at the same number, the geese were reduced from thirteen to eight. Besides the King’s berwick there was a small manor in the parish called Aketorp, belonging to a freeman named Aylmar, a priest, probably the priest of the parish. His name tells us that he was an Englishman, and not one of the Conqueror’s Frenchmen. His little property consisted of 80 acres, on which there were three cottage tenants. One plough was used on the demesne. There were seven other tenants who had land requiring half a plough. (They must have had other means of supporting themselves.) There was wood for five pigs, and one acre of pasture. Priest Aylmar had not been disturbed by the Conquest, and his little property was in the same condition in 1085 as it was in 1066. The rest of the land in the parish would be common or waste land, over which the cattle, sheep, and pigs of the lords and their tenants could roam and feed.