The following pedigrees illustrate the care with which the relations of the gebúr, and other dependent cultivators on an estate were recorded. It is probable, nay even certain, that such records were preserved in all lordships: they were the original court-rolls, by copy of which the unfree tenants, perhaps also the poor freemen, held, who were thus the ancient copyholders. The amount of the holdings was undoubtedly settled by the custom of the county or the manor; and it is probable that one measure prevailed for all tenants of similar grades. A record of descents was necessary to regulate the claims of a lord to the families of his _coloni_, and some extensive system of registration very probably prevailed: it would be impossible without it to secure the due operation of the law of _teám_. “Dudda was a gebúr at Hǽðfeld, and he had three daughters, one was named Deórwyn, the second Deórswýð, the third Golde. And Wulfláf at Hǽðfeld hath Deórwyn to wife, Ælfstán at Tæccingawyrð hath Deórswýð to wife, and Ealhstán, Ælfstán’s brother, hath Golde to wife. There was a man named Hwíta, the beemaster at Hǽðfeld, and he had a daughter Táte, the mother of Wulfsige, the bowman; and Wulfsige’s sister Lulle hath Héhstán to wife, at Wealden. Wifús and Dunne, and Seoloce are inborn to Hǽðfeld. Duding, the son of Wifús, is settled at Wealden; and Ceólmund the son of Dunne, also sits at Wealden, and Æðelheáh the son of Seoloce, also sits at Wealden: and Táte, Cénwold’s sister, Mæg has to wife at Welgun; and Eádhelm, the son of Hereðrýð, hath Táte’s daughter to wife. Wærláf, Wærstán’s father, was a right serf at Hǽðfeld, he held the grey swine[428].” “᛭ A man named Bráda was a gebúr at Hǽðfeld, and Hwíte was the name of Brâda’s wife; she was a gebúr’s daughter at Hǽðfeld. Hwíte was Wærstán’s Wǽðrýð's and Wynburh’s third mother[429]. And Wærstán sits at Wádtún, and hath Wine’s sister to wife, and Wine hath Wærðrýð to wife. And Dunne sat at Wádtún, she was inborn to Hǽðfeld: and Deórwyn her daughter hath Cynewald to wife at Munden: and Deórnáð her brother is with Cynewald. And Dudde, Wifús’s daughter sits at Wilmundesleá. Cynhelm, Cénwald’s father, was a gebúr at Hǽðfeld, and Manna, Cénwald’s son, sits at Wádtún under Eádwald.” “᛭ Buhe, Dryhtláfs mother-in-law, was removed from Hǽðfeld into Eslingaden: and Æðelwyn, Eádugu and Æðelgyð were three sisters; and Tilwine and Dudda, these were all Buge’s children; and Ealhstán Tilwine’s son, and Wulfsige Eádugu’s son, and Ceólhelm Æðelgyð's son, and Ceólstán and Manwine. This kin came from [Hǽð]feld; Deórwulf, Cyneburh’s son, and his two sisters; and Cyneríc at Clæfring is their uncle. These men are the _magas_ of Táta, the gebúr at Hǽðfeld.” Cod. Dipl. No. 1353.