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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… jurisdiction whatever, and were accountable to the King's person only. This church is often called by the names of, … de Knapton Archdeacon of Norwich; there was a seal of office belonging to the spiritual jurisdiction of this … That in 1189, King Richard I. made Roger son of Hugh Bigot Earl of Norfolk, and constable of the castle, who in 1212, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Carhoe or Carrow CARHOE or CARROW, Or the hill by the carr's side, as the situation plainly demonstrates, stands on a … Riston, which were valued to the tax at 10 s. Roger Bygot, Earl Marshal, gave the tithes of his demeans in Halvergate, which …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… of St. Martin at the Plain Was anciently called St. Martin's at the Palace-gate, from its standing opposite to the north … all his land in Hethill and Carletun, of the fee of the Earl of Norfolk, which Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, and Marshal of England, 23 had conveyed to him in the presence of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the hounds which formerly were kept near it for the Bishop's use, when the house belonging to the see stood in the … by St. George's company. On the right hand also is the Earl of Orford at length, in his robes, and this under him, … and gilt lockets; two new staffs to be carried by the two marshal-men before the mayor, with two silver heads thereon …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… manor, which then belonged to Uluiet, was, with the King's manor of Eaton, in the custody of Godric, and had belonged, … ancestor to Robert Malet, and Ribald held it of Alan Earl of Richmond, as of his manor of Hetherset, in the … of Langley; some to Ralph de Erlham, others to the Earl Marshal, &c. so that their two manors were increased, and his …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… in the hands of the tenants; the whole in the Confessor's time was worth 4 l. per annum, and 5 l. in the Conqueror's. There was also a freeman under the abbot's protection, 3 … was ejected out of this, and Carleton-Road rectory, by the Earl of Manchester, Apr. 28, 1644, though he had a wife and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… water or lake. It belonged to Stigand in the Confessor's time, who held it as a berewic or hamlet belonging to the … and pair of spurs, or 3 s. 4 d in lieu thereof, to the Earl of Arundell. In Richard the Second's time, Robert … (see p. 425,) and the rest belonged to the chamberlain's office. This vicarage was afterwards endowed upon the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Michael at the Pleas: and first of (87) St. John Baptist's Church in Madder-Market Took this distinguishing … it afterwards came to the Giffards, and Walter Giffard Earl of Buckingham, the third of that name, who died about … Captain of the Militia, and Mayor of this City, in which Office he died the 30 th Day of October, A o. Dni. 1717, aged …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the ancient site (though now built upon) of (3) St. Olave's chapel, Which was a parochial chapel before the Conquest, … to the rectory of St. Peter Southgate, in Edward the Third's time, and the ornaments of the chapel were carried thither, … when the Bishop appropriated it to that convent, 5 to the office of the cellerer or keeper of the refectory there, to …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… ward of itself, and at the beginning of the Confessor's reign was uninhabited, being field only; that part which is … all this land was owned and held by Ralf Waiet, or Guader, Earl of Norfolk, 2 in right of his castle, and he granted it … and the nine o'clock bell at night. The steepleman, whose office lies in the steeple only, for ringing of bells, &c. …