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(Liber Eliensis)
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<blockquote>Godgifu, a free woman commended half to St Æthelthryth [of Ely] and half to Eadric of Laxfield , held Rendlesham with 60 acres as a manor. Then 2 ploughs, now 1; 2 acres of meadow. 1 villan. Then as now worth 20s. 1 free man and half a [free man] under the same commendation [held] 10 acres and half a plough in the same valuation. Bernard d'Alençon holds this from Hervey [de Bourges]. William [Malet] was seised thereof on the day on which he died. It is 1 league long and a half broad. In geld 14d. (from Little Domesday, Folio 443v). [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?queryType=1&resultcount=1&Edoc_Id=7611047 Link]</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>Godgifu, a free woman commended half to St Æthelthryth [of Ely] and half to Eadric of Laxfield , held Rendlesham with 60 acres as a manor. Then 2 ploughs, now 1; 2 acres of meadow. 1 villan. Then as now worth 20s. 1 free man and half a [free man] under the same commendation [held] 10 acres and half a plough in the same valuation. Bernard d'Alençon holds this from Hervey [de Bourges]. William [Malet] was seised thereof on the day on which he died. It is 1 league long and a half broad. In geld 14d. (from Little Domesday, Folio 443v). [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?queryType=1&resultcount=1&Edoc_Id=7611047 Link]</blockquote>
  
*An alternate translation of this same record, from 'Domesday Book and the Law', Robin Flemming; 1998; Cambridge, page 444 reads : "Hervey de Bourges, Rendlesham. TRE Godgifu, a free woman half commended to Ely and half to Eadric of Laxfield, held sixty acres of land in Rendlesham. Now Bernard d'Alencon holds it from Hervey de Bourges. William Malet was seized [of it] on the day he died."
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**An alternate translation of this same record, from 'Domesday Book and the Law', Robin Flemming; 1998; Cambridge, page 444 reads : "Hervey de Bourges, Rendlesham. TRE Godgifu, a free woman half commended to Ely and half to Eadric of Laxfield, held sixty acres of land in Rendlesham. Now Bernard d'Alencon holds it from Hervey de Bourges. William Malet was seized [of it] on the day he died."
  
 
==Secondary sources==
 
==Secondary sources==

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