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Place: Clare
- Hundred: Risbridge
- County: Suffolk
- Total population: 128 households (very large).
- Total tax assessed: 25.5 geld units (very large).
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- Taxable units: Taxable value 25.5 geld units. 15.0 villtax.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £40. Value to lord in 1086 £40.
- Households: 30 villagers. 30 smallholders. 20 slaves. 5 freemen. 43 burgesses.
- Ploughland: 7 lord's plough teams. 25.5 men's plough teams.
- Other resources: Meadow 43 acres. Woodland 12 pigs. 1 mill.
- Livestock in 1066: 6 cobs. 10 cattle. 12 pigs. 60 sheep.
- Livestock in 1086: 6 cobs. 14 cattle. 60 pigs. 480 sheep. 12 beehives.
- Lord in 1066: Clare St John, canons of.
- Lord in 1086: Richard son of Count Gilbert.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Richard son of Count Gilbert.
- Phillimore reference: 25,1