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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… FINCHAM. This town, at the grand survey, was in the tenure of several great Norman lords; the Earl Warren had 2 carucates of land, of which a freeman belonging to the soc of Ramsey abbey was …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred and Half Fordham FORDHAM. This village lies east of the great Ouse, and north of the river Wissey; and here is a causeway over a fenny … who held 24 acres in the Confessor's time, valued at 2 s. of these only the protection was in his predecessor. 1 This, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… There are now only 2 or 3 cottages, or houses, standing of this village, on the London road to Lynn, called … and Fodesthorp. The chief lordship was in the church of Ely. At the survey, there belonged to it a carucate of land, and 3 villains, with 2 bordarers, one carucate in …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… hill, (surrounded with water and fens,) on the south side of the river Wissey, near its fall into the river Ouse: at the survey it was a lordship of the abbey of Ramsey, by the gift of King Edgar, and … Sir Cecil Wray, Bart. 2d son of Sir Drury Wray, Bart. and Anne his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas Casey of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Is an hamlet belonging to Rungton, and to the lordship of the abbot of Bury, and takes its name from its low and moist situation. The rector had here 80 acres of land, here was baptism and burial, and was valued with …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… often overflowed, appears as a meer. The principal manor of this village was in the church of Ely, by the grant of King Edgar; and in the time of Leoffin, the 5th abbot of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and Half Shingham SHINGHAM. Ralph de Tony had the grant of a lordship here on the expulsion of two freemen, who possessed 80 acres of land, and a carucate, and was part of Tony's capital manor …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… SHOULDHAM. So called from a shallow little stream of water, that runs through the town; thus Scole, Sculthorp, … 9 Humphrey married in the 3d and 4th of Philip and Mary, Anne, daughter of William Yelverton, Esq. of Rougham, and dying in 1566, left Anne, his daughter and sole heir, who married John Steward, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… book, it is called Carboisthorp, from a clear stream of water or rivulet, arising here and running to Fincham, &c. … Hobois, Boethorp, or Boesthorp, &c. Hermerus de Ferrariis (of whom see in Wermegay) had seized on 80 acres of land, and 5 of meadow, possessed by 11 freemen, and the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and South-Rungton: it was given to the abbot and convent of Bury St. Edmund's, by Alfrick Bishop of Elmham, 1 in the reign of Canute King of England, and the … Henry Lewes, A. M. by Sir Thomas Barrington and the Lady Anne his wife, the Lady Mary, and the Lady Essex Rich, by the …