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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hugh de Montfort had the capital lordship, which Bund, a Saxon thane, was lord of, in the reign of the Confessor, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… capital manor of Thornage, belonging to the see, in the Saxon age, and is accounted for under that town, to which I …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… a lordship by grant of the Conqueror, out of which Toke, a Saxon thane, had been ejected, who had 14 socmen with half a …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Holt hundred Holt HOLT, In the Saxon tongue, signifies a wood, from which (it is probable) … or entertainment of one day, time being counted in the Saxon age by nights. Hugh de Abrineis Earl of Chester. Terra …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… half a carucate, valued at two oras per ann. 1 ( ora was a Saxon coin, some make it to be of the value of 16 d. and some …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a name supposed to have been derived from Huninge, a Saxon possessor, and ham, a "dwellingplace or habitation." …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… her decease, the fountain was dedicated. Its reported Saxon name of Welston appears to have been derived from the … an old bell in the steeple, now broken, was inscribed, in Saxon characters, " Sancta Etheldreda, ora pro nobis." Edward …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… promontory, and established himself in the demesne of the Saxon bishop, by compromise or the strong arm. In either … held a manor, which Bishop Almar had possessed in Saxon days, in which was a church, endowed with twelve acres … and soc over the lands of St. Edmund and his tenants. In Saxon times, the woods on this manor were large enough to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (presumably by the name of an otherwise unrecorded Saxon) as Fordritishope. Probably during the 12th century it …