 After the Norman Conquest, however, the new Norman landholders could afford to spend large sums of money on buildings, including churches, so that the cost of translating the See to Chichester would not have been a problem.King Æðelwealh gave Wilfrid a royal vill and 87 hides to build a monastery at Selsey.Bede says that one of Wilfrid's first acts was to free 250 slaves, who came with the estate, and baptise them.