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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the hundred of Grimshoe, on the London, and post-road, to Lynn, Downham, &c.: in the book of Domesday, it is wrote … of a church endowed with 5 acres valued at 5 d. and the right of another church endowed with 27 acres, valued at 27 … I. the jury for the hundred present the prior for breaking down the bridge and disturbing the passage, to the great …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… William I. granted it with many other towns of that lord, to Hermerus de Ferrers. Before the conquest there were three … true and faithfull, husband kind, A father tender, one of right Christian mind, His days consum'd with labour, care and … of Sir Ralph Hare, Knight of the Bath, which was taken down on the erecting that of Sir Thomas Hare, Bart. On the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… This town stands in a great valley, which Strath is said to signify; and several places in Scotland take their names … Risby in Suffolk, Gent. by whom he had no issue; she was cut off by the spotted fever at London, 14 August, 1677, and … of Sir William Wisham and Margaret his wife, and in her right presented as lord to the church of Elingham Parva, in …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and Half Thorpland THORPLAND, A small hamlet now belonging to Rungton aforesaid, but formerly a village, or township by … it was one leuca long, and 4 furlongs broad, and paid 8 d. to the gelt, when the hundred was assessed at 20 s. Hermerus … appears that he had liberty of a fold, a windmill, and a right of driving beasts into the fen, performing homage, and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… In the book of Domesday, Outwell in Norfolk belonged to the abbey of Ramsey, is said to have 16 borderers there, … him; by this deed it was agreed that the prior should have right of common for all his own cattle belonging to his manor … Greaves, Esq. of Fulborne, in Cambridgeshire, who in right of his wife is the present lord. See the pedigree …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the whole is 4 furlongs long, and 3 broad, and paid 6 d. to the gelt; over all these St. Bennet ( Ramsey abbey) has … the eldest, was married to Francis Gawdy, Esq. who in her right became lord of this place, and Thorpland; he was the 3d … Henry Spilman says, that having this manor, &c. in right of his wife, he induced her to acknowledge a fine …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… lord of it, and of Wirmegay, &c. and from him it came to the Lords Bardolph Barons of Wirmegay, and was held of … 1418, John Glemsford, Esq. of Watlington, presented, in right of his wife Margaret, daughter (as I take it) of John … in French, the letters were of brass, the stone being cut and fitted so as to receive them, all which are now …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… per ann. was 5 furlongs long, and 2 broad, and paid 2 d. to a 20 s. gelt. Hermerus had also seized on 4 acres held by … and after Earl of Kent, and in the 17th, Hubert held it in right of his wife, lately deceased. In the 27th of Henry III. … Michael de Poynings, Knt. and Margery his wife, all her right in the manor of Bures, in Suffolk, dated at Bercamp, in …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… West Riston WEST RISTON. The church of Riston is dedicated to St. Michael, and stands in a field by itself about a … stone; the upper part of the tower lies open and is broke down to the roof of the church. The chancel is divided from … length in a cumbent posture, supporting her head with her right hand, which rests on a cushion all carved out of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… an aid was granted on the marriage of that King's sister to the Emperor) of the honour of Wirmegay, In the 9th of … Simeon Stuart, Bart. of Hartley Mauduit in Hampshire, in right of his wife Elizabeth, only sister and heir of Sir … staff, and was the arms of the abbey; this staff has been cut out some time past; but in the bow window of the room …