CAMBRIDGESHIRE (PZ. 4. XIX. a). Land of Hardwin de Scalers. In Dochesworde Payne holds three hides and one yardland of Hardwin. There is land for three ploughlands and two oxen :-In demesne there are two ploughlands; and one villanus with four bordercottagers have one ploughland and two oxen. There are there three serfs; meadow, one ploughland. Of pasture, one socagepiece. It is worth fifty shillings. It lately brought sixty shillings: in the time of King Edward, a hundred shillings. This land thirteen socagers held :--Of whom, eleven were vassals of King Edward, and found two days' works and nine inewards for the sheriff, but yet had power to sell their lands; and the remaining two held one hide and a half,- -one being a vassal of Algar the Earl, and the other, a vassal of Lady Eddeva. They had power to sell their land.

(XXI, a). In Papeworde Payne holds of Hardwin one yardland and a half. There is land for four oxen; and they are there with four bordercottagers. Meadow, for four oxen. It is and always was worth five shillings. This land two socagers, vassals of King Edward, held; and they found two inewards; and they had power to sell. [Next]:

(XXI. a). In Elesworde Payne holds of Hardwin one yardland. The land is half a ploughland; and he is there with one villanus. Meadow, half a ploughland. It is and was worth four shillings in the time of King Edward, five shillings. This land two socagers of King Edward held; and they found one ineward; and they had power to sell. [Next]:

(XXI. a). In Cunitone Payne holds of Hardwin two hides. The land is two ploughlands :—In demesne, one ploughland; and one villanus with four bordercottagers have one ploughland. There are there two serfs; meadow, two ploughlands. It is worth twenty shillings. It lately brought sixteen shillings, and the same in the time of King Edward. This land three socagers of King Edward held; and they found two days' works and one ineward; and they had power to retire. [Next]:

(XXI. a). In Bachesworde Payne holds of Hardwin four hides and a half. The land is four ploughlands: In demesne, one ploughland ; and eight villani with six bordercottagers and three cottagers have three ploughlands. There are there two serfs, and meadow four ploughlands. It is and always was worth sixty shillings. This land one thane of King Edward held, three hides and a half, and could sell to whom he would; and seven socagers of King Edward had one hide; and they used to find three days' works and three inewards for the sheriff; and they could sell their land. [One §, then]:

(XXI. a). In Draitone Payne holds of Hardwin five hides and three yardlands. The land is five ploughlands: In demesne, two ploughlands; and nine villani with three bordercottagers have two ploughlands, and, perhaps, a third. There are there seven cottagers, and meadow, two ploughlands. This land is worth four pounds. It lately brought a hundred shillings; in the time of King Edward, six pounds. This land nineteen socagers held: Six of these, vassals of King Edward, had two hides minus half a yardland, and found six inewards for the sheriff, and could give their land; and four others, vassals of Eddeva, had one hide and a half, and they could retire without socage.

NORFOLK (County: Small Domesday: PZ. Vol. 19, page 311). Land of Edmund, son (filii) of Payne, In Ďnham *Payne used to hold, in

* Payne seems to have died this year (1086), or, to be aged.

the time of King Edward, four ploughlands of land: always twelve villani then and before, four oxen; now thirteen: then four serfs; before and now, two: fourteen acres of meadow: always one ploughland in demesne daughter of Payne

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (PZ. 20. XV. a). Land of William Pevrel. Payne holds of William two hides in Berchebi. The land is five ploughlands: In demesne are two ploughlands, with one serf; and ten villani and eight bordercottagers are with three ploughlands. There are there six acres of meadow; forest, six perticas long and four wide. It was worth thirty shillings: now, sixty shillings.

LEICESTERSHIRE (PZ. 16. XI. b). Land of William Pevrel. Payne holds of William six ploughlands of land and five oxgangs in Wapenter. The land is four ploughlands: In demesne are two; and ten villani and six bordercottagers, who, with two socagers living in Brandestorp, have two ploughlands and five ploughing oxen. These two socagers have five oxgangs of land. There are there forty acres of meadow; barren forest, six quarentenas in length and one quarentena in breadth. It was worth fifty shillings; now, four pounds.

STAFFORDSHIRE (PZ. 25. VIII. b). Land of William, son of Ansculf. The same William holds in Elmelecote one hide and Payne from him. Two vassals of Algar the Earl held without socage. The land is two ploughlands. There are there four villani and two bordercottagers and one serf with two ploughlands. There are there four acres and a forest. It was and is worth ten shillings.

CHESHIRE (PZ. 5. VI. a). Richard de Vernon. The same Richard holds Cocheshalle and Payne from him. Levenot and Dedou held it for two manors; and they were free men. There, half a hide paid geld. The land is one ploughland. He is there with one radman and one bordercottager. Forest, one mile long and half a mile wide. In the time of King Edward it used to be worth two shillings; now, five shillings.

(VIII. b). William, son of Nigdle. The same William holds Estone and Payne from him. Levenot held it as a free man. There, two yardlands and a half pay geld. The land is one ploughland, which there is in demesne; and there are two oxgangs and one radman and one bordercottager and one serf. There is a forest there one mile long and forty perticas broad: and there are two hedges there. [Next]:

(VIII. b). The same William holds Budewade and Payne from him. Edward held it as a free man. One hide there paid geld. The land is two ploughlands. In demesne is half a ploughland; and one serf and a prebendary and two villani and one bordercottager are with one ploughland; and a mill. There is there an acre and one half of meadOW. In the time of King Edward it used to be worth six shillings; now, eight shillings. [Next]:

(VIII. b). The same William holds Witelei and Payne and Odard from him. Levenot held it as a free man. There, two hides paid geld. The land is two ploughlands. In demesne is one, with one serf. There is one acre of meadow there. Forest, one mile long and half a mile wide. It is worth six shillings.

WORCESTERSHIRE (PZ. 31. XI. b). Land of William, son of Ansculf. The same William holds Cradeleie and Payne from him. Wigar

held it. There is one hide there. In demesne, nothing. There are four villani there and eleven bordercottagers with seven ploughlands. It was worth forty shillings; now, twenty-four shillings.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE (PZ. 10. XVII. a). Land of Hunfride de Medehal. Hunfride de Medehalle holds Utone. *Payne used to hold it. In demesne, one ploughland; and three serfs and four bordercottagers are with two ploughlands. It was worth thirty shillings; now, twenty shillings.

WILTSHIRE (PZ. 30. XIII.). Land of Hunfride of the Isle. Payne holds of Hunfride Contone. Levenot used to hold it in the time of King Edward, and paid geld for five hides and a half. The land is four ploughlands: Of this, there are, in demesne, two hides and one yardland of land; and there are two ploughlands there and four serfs and four villani and four coscez with two ploughlands. A third part of two mills there pays ten shillings; and there are twenty acres of meadow, and ten acres of pasture, and as many of forest. It was and is worth four pounds and ten shillings. [Two holdings; then] :

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(XIII. ). Payne holds of Hunfride Cumbrewelle. Levenot held it in the time of King Edward and paid geld for four hides. The land is five ploughlands: In demesne are two ploughlands with one serf; and two villani and four cottagers are with three ploughlands. There are four acres of meadow there, and five acres of forest. It is worth three pounds. Of the same land the King hath one hide in his own demesne, and there is nothing there; and One Englishman holds a half of the King. It is worth eight shillings.

Edmund, son of Payne, had one holding in Norfolk County, as above, In Somersetshire, three-" holds Bertune of the King." Picote. Waltone" (PZ. 24. XXVI. b),—and :

HAMPSHIRE (11. XXVII. b). Edmund, son of Payne, holds of the King, and Hugh [de Port] of him, one yardland in Derleie. Saulf used to hold it of King Edward, in parcenary. There are two villani there, with one ploughland, and half an acre of meadow. Forest for six hogs: was, but is not. It was worth ten shillings; now. three shillings.

KEY.-Hide, about 120 acres. Yardland, hide. Ploughland, 60 to 100 acres. Oxgang, of ploughland. Villanus, a man superior to a bordercottager, or boor, and to a serf. Parcenary, joint tenantry. Radmen ploughed, harrowed, mowed, reaped, in the time of King Edward. The Forest spoken of in Hampshire is the "New Forest," made by William the Conqueror. Geld, tax. Ineward, some service not known. Quarentena, 40 perches.

Payne disappears here from his old line. See NORfolk.

Payne has no "brother "

NOTE. "Edmvnd, f. pagen"-" Edmund, son (f.) of Payne": not "brother of Payne. In Domesday, f. is for filius, son: and fr. is for frater, brother. in Domesday. The "King" here is William the Conqueror.

THOMAS PAINE, FOUNDER OF THE EASTHAM

FAMILY, AND HIS POSTERITY.

BY JOSIAH PAINE, OF HARWICH, MASS.

Of the ancestry of Thomas Paine, of Eastham, founder of that family of Paines which settled on Cape Cod, but very little is certainly known as yet. Credible traditionary accounts that came down in several branches of the family, and committed to writing before the commencement of the present century, have it that he came over from England with his father, who bore the same name, when a lad of about ten years of age, having lost the sight of one of his eyes by an arrow, married Mary Snow, and settled in Eastham Mass. As to the date of their arrival, and the name of the place whence they came, traditional accounts differ. The descendents in the line of James, of Barnstable, have it that they came from the "North of England," while those in the line of John, of Eastham, have reported they came from "Kent." In what vessel they found passage, or at what place they landed on the New England coast, no account, oral or written has come to the knowledge of the writer.

Of what became of the elder Thomas, there is nothing positively known. It is supposed by some he found his way to Yarmouth, and was the Thomas Payne who was the first Deputy from that place to the Old Colony Court at Plymouth, in June, 1639, who took the freeman's oath June 4, that year, who was able to bear arms in 1643, and who was a resident in that town as late as 1650.

THOMAS PAINE, the son, who came over when a lad of about ten years of age, married Mary Snow, and settled in Eastham, as tradition has it, but at what date, cannot be ascertained either from the Colonial or the ancient records of Eastham. He was there, however, in 1653, and was acting in the capacity of a constable. In 1655 he was one of the nineteen mentioned as among the townsmen of Eastham.

He was propounded at the Colony Court, at Plymouth and admitted a freeman June 1, 1658. In 1662, he was

appointed, with Nicholas Snow, Jonathan Sparrow, and Giles Hopkins, to view and lay out the meadow between Namskaket and Silver Spring, within the limits of Eastham, to those of the inhabitants entitled to the same; and the same year, with Giles Hopkins, was appointed a surveyor of highways. In 1664, he was appointed one of the Deputies to the Colony Court, and one of the Jury. In 1667, he was, with eleven others, called to investigate the causes that led to the deaths of Robert Chappell, James Nichols, and James Pidell, of Capt. John Allen's company, who were put ashore at Cape Cod. The same year he was allowed by the Colony Court to select a tract of land for his use; and in June, 1669, he was allowed, with Experience Michell, Henry Sampson, and Thomas Little, to purchase land at Namskaket, now Middleboro'. Mass. . With these persons, July 20, the same year, he purchased of Tuscaquin, the Black Sachem, and his son, William, for ten pounds sterling, their right to the grant. This land laid adjoining to John Alden's tract at the famous Assowamsett Pond. In 1670, with Jonathan Sparrow, he was appointed an inspector of the Ordinaries in town, and to see that there was no excessive drinking; and the same year, one of the Grand Inquest.

In 1670, he became interested in the purchase of land in what is now Truro, Mass., of the proprietors. His first purchase was of Gov. Thomas Prence, of Plymouth, May 2, 1670, his "half share," lying between "Bound Brook" and "Eastern Harbor or "Lovell's Creek," for which he paid the sum of twenty pounds, which tract he sold to his son Thomas, March 30, 1690, for the same sum. The first day of June, 1673, he purchased of Jabez Howland, for fifteen pounds, all his right to land purchased and unpurchased in the same vicinity, which he sold March 30, 1690, to his son Thomas, for twenty pounds in silver.

For many years anterior to 1670, the head of the Cape, now Provincetown, had been the resort of fishermen from various parts, and it being within the limits of the Colony of Plymouth, the Court that year, upon complaint being made of careless persons "casting their ballast near the shore," where seines were drawn, and "leaveing the garbidge of ffish or dead ffish to lye there," decreed that for every offense a penalty of forty shillings; also, that whoever, within the limits of the Colony, should "draw mackerall on shore there" should pay six pence per barrel for every barrel taken for the Colony's