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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… part of the county of Norfolk, and adjoins to the isle of Ely. The Saxon king Edgar gave the lordship of it to the … there was an agreement between William de Luda Bishop of Ely, and John de Sautry, Abbot of Ramsey, that the Bishop … were suitors to it, excepting the tenants of the Bishop of Ely, abbot of Derham, prior of Shouldham, &c. On the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… to have been well endowed) to find two canons of that house to pray there for his soul, and the souls of his … Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Woxham, 12 and turned into a farm-house, having some additional buildings. It is still called the Chapel-house; part of the chapel, at the east end of the house, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… age, it was part of the possessions of the monastery of Ely. At the grand survey, St. Audrey (that is the church of Ely) held one servus, a carucate in domain, and one amongst … About this time, Stephen de Mushill, (who gave name to a house in the parish,) Stephen de Dunneby, and John de Deen, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Dunmow were valued at 20 s. a portion of tithe given that house, probably on its foundation, by the Lord Baynard. The …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… 2d and 3d of Philip and Mary. The temporalities of this house, being a college, when dissolved, were valued at 3 l. 1 … 89 communicants. 1608, Stanley, Waller, by the Bishop of Ely; the impropriated rectory, and the advowson of the … great and small tithes being leased out by the Bishop of Ely to his tenants, and so is now served by a stipendiary …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the year 1726, Mr. Towerson of Hadenham, in the isle of Ely, purchased it from the Barbers; and about the year 1730, … married daughter of Hopkins of Wilberton in the isle of Ely, who is said to have conveyed it to Mr. Towerson of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… valued at 16 d.Also St. Audrey (that is the church of Ely) had 2 villains here, who held 12 acres and one acre of … heirs of Bigot, and that which belonged to the church of Ely was granted by King Henry VIII. 10 Sept. in his 33d year, … the patronage, the rector held 30 acres of land, with an house, valued at 11 marks, Peter-pence, 16 d. a pension was …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… aliened lands in the 16th of Richard II. to the prior of Ely. Simon Fincham, son of John, married Elizabeth, daughter … at the survey at 40 s.St. Audrey, that is, the church of Ely, laid claim to it, as the hundred witnessed. And in the … the founder. In the 20th of Edward I. the prior of that house held it; and Gilbert de Clare Earl of Clare gave 10 s. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… so came to the Skipwiths. St. Etheldreda (the church of Ely) had, in King Edward's reign, 3 bordarers, who held at the survey 12 acres, valued at 2 s. and the abbot of Ely had seized on 30 acres, which a freeman held, 3 … nothing of it remains, but part of an old hall, now a farm-house, lying east of Fordham, The abbot of Ramsey had in the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and Fodesthorp. The chief lordship was in the church of Ely. At the survey, there belonged to it a carucate of land, … hundred also witnessed, that it belonged to the church of Ely in King Edward's time. 1 From this outrageous claim, we … on his founding the priory of Shouldham, gave it to that house, in the reign of King John; and the prior had a charter …