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A History of the County of Sussex
… upper floor seems to have resembled a contemporary layman's house, the surviving building being the Great Hall, the north-west wing containing the stairs and perhaps … planted in 1761. An 18thcentury 'grotto', known as 'Carne's Seat' from the name of an old retainer of the 3rd Duke, is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Boxted 8. BOXTED. (D.b.) (O S. 6 in. (a)xviii. N.E. (b)xviii. S.E. (c)xix. N.W. (d)xix. S.W.) Boxted is a parish on the … down to form seat. ConditionGood. Secular c(2). Rivers Hall, house and moat, nearly m. E. of the church. The House …
A History of the County of Essex
… church was split into moieties held by the lords of Boxted Hall and Rivers Hall respectively. Hugh of Boxted gave his share of the church to St. John's abbey, Colchester, between 1163 and 1181, and Robert of … shares by 1254 when there was a vicarage. In 1237 St. John's abbey gave its share of the advowson to the bishop of …
A History of the County of Essex
… north-west and north-east of the parish where the Boxted Hall and Rivers Hall demesnes later lay. 97 Boxted Hall's woodland for 300 swine in 1086 was probably further south next to Cestrewald. Boxted's large and increasing number of bordarii, as well as its 38 …
A History of the County of Essex
… older children from the National school moved on to Malyn's school. 61 In 1818 there were two Nonconformist schools, … it continued for a further six months in Priory Hall until it was amalgamated with the Junior school in 1947. … infants in 1947, senior children being sent to St. Helena's school in Colchester. 73 In 1954 the school was awarded …
A History of the County of Essex
… rectangular parish, except where a change in the river's course by Boxted mill has left c. 11 a. on the northern … in the Stour valley to a ridge at c. 45 m. around Boxted Hall and the church. The gradient is steepest near Boxted … been part of Cestrewald; 60 in 1325 it was only worth 2 s. to the lord of Boxted Hall because it lay within the royal …
A History of the County of Essex
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The lord of Boxted Hall held view of frankpledge in 1303, when the bailiff of the honor of Boulogne had 2 s. from its profits. 78 In 1641 the view elected one … were unfairly rated. 91 In 1776 a poor rate raised £134 o s. 6 d. Expenditure had increased to £466 8 s. 2 d. by 1801 …
A History of the County of Essex
… by Alvric in 1066, that later became the manor of BOXTED HALL, were held in demesne in 1086 by Eustace of Boulogne as … 46 Thereafter Boxted Hall descended first with the Scropes's manor of Nayland until 1517, and then with the manor of … in 1325, when there was an upper chamber over the moat's drawbridge, and in 1610. Part of the moat may survive in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 18. 12. 3., and in the patronage of George … church contains a monumental bust of Dr. Saunderson, F.R.S., the blind professor of mathematics at the University of … has been settled here more than two centuries. Boynton Hall, the residence of the baronet, is a lofty and handsome …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for his widow, who appointed John Boys, their daughter's intended husband. 69 John Standley, having quarrelled with … for £40 a year, 77and though taxed in 1535 at only £18 12 s. 4 d. 78was worth £110 a year in 1650. 79From that time the … a 4-a. close north of the churchyard, 92included in 1376 a hall and chamber and in 1632 a hall, two parlours, two …