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The Environs of London
… ann. to buy gowns for six poor women. Probably from the Saxon word Haeg, a hedge, in the French, Haye, which comes …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… king, Wiglaf. This grant again mentions Hayes. 12 Anglo-Saxon settlement in Hayes, Yeading, and Botwell, three of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… arisen from the unevenness of the surface, heep, in the Saxon, indicating a mass of irregularities. A family called …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a Neolithic long barrow and a bowl barrow containing a Saxon burial. 12 Roman remains have been found at Heddington …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… called Helgefelt, or the Field of Helgh, its first Saxon possessor, was held by its mesne lords of the knights …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This parish is supposed to have derived its name from the Saxon Hean or Hen, Old, and Byrig, a fortified place. It is …
The Environs of London
… etymology is not perfectly correct; upon consulting the Saxon dictionaries, Heandunewill be found to mean rather the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a grassy mount; on a chief per pale argent and gules a Saxon crown or between two roses counter-changed barbed and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… copy but the text may be authentic: Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 219. Cart. Sax. ed. Birch, iii, p. 264. The …