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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe Necton NECTON. In King Edward the … own order at Cambridge, and as some say, was prior of that house, and chaplain to William de Luda Bishop of Ely; but in … their lives, and from and after their decease, that the house of Shouldham should be obliged to find a priest to …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe Newton NEWTON. By Castleacre, is a little village on the north side or point of the hundred. In the Confessor's time, Osmund was lord; 1 … had no land belonging to it, that the vicar had no house, but what he hired, and had tithe of peas and beans; …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe North-Pickenham NORTH-PICKENHAM. From Domesday Book we learn, that part of this village called Pickenham, was a berewic, a little … chapel-close, containing 68 acres of pasture, dove-house close, a capital messuage called the falcon, with 126 …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe Oxburgh OXBURGH, In Domesday Book, is … Ereswell and other her manors in Suffolk and Norfolk; an house with gardens, pastures, meadow grounds, and 42 acres of … in several hands, but on the enclosing of the town and commons about 24 years past, were purchased by Sir Henry …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe South-Acre SOUTH-ACRE. This village, as … of John Dorward, Esq. serjeant at law, and speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of King Henry VI. which Margaret had …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe South-Pickenham SOUTH-PICKENHAM. In … it to Anthony Fisher, Esq. who partly built the manor-house, now called the Hall, and his son Anthony sold it to … Knt. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who finished the house, and resided here in the reign of King William, and the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe Sporle SPORLE. 1 The church of Sporle is a lofty and spacious building of flint, &c. … the fine certain at 4 s. per acre, and there was a little house at Bartholomew Fairstede belonging to it. See Southacre. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe Swaffham SWAFFHAM. 1 Harold 2 son of … d. per acre. To their knowledge, there never was any manor-house, but many acres of demesne lands, and Edward Heye, and … their houses down at pleasure; the lord hath many great commons, &c. and the tenants are not stinted in their common, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of South Greenhoe West-Bradenham WEST-BRADENHAM. We find in Domesday Book, under the title of invasions 1 in this hundred, that William Earl Warren held … of Bradeham, she being to have only reasonable estover of house-bote, hedge-bote, and wood to burn, by the view of the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Ashill ASHILL, Aysele, Asschelee, the Ashy Leas, … the Prior of Thetford, 20 s. Peter-pence 22 d. There is a house and 40 acres of glebe, it is valued in the King's Books … of this town, according to the order of the lords and commons, dated 2d Feb. 1643, all subscribed the league and …