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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… some have imagined it of Roman original, is certainly Saxon, and might take its name from its pleasant situation, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and great antiquity, so called from [Cyning] which in Saxon signifies a King, so that Cyning or Kenninghad, … at each king's accession, (for so I take [Terthuma] in the Saxon to signify.) It had a freeman and 30 acres belonging to …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Gerbodes, or Gerbold's Town, is so called from some Saxon who was owner of it, [ham] in their language signifying …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… it is wrote Covestuna, and derives its name from the Saxon word Love, a small creak, and tun or ton, a town or …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… side of the river Wissey, and derives its name from the Saxon word ( angulus) a turn, nook, or corner, and pic, a … when the office first began; it is probable it was in the Saxon time; and a learned author 16 has observed, that these …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… thus on account of immersion, which was in practice in the Saxon times, as is plain from the history of King Etheldred, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… that is, a pure water, or spring, or rather from the Saxon word [fleot], which signifies an estuary, canal, or … the Earl Warren had a manor in this town, which Alveva, a Saxon lady, held in the Confessor's time, of St. Adeldred's …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… now joins, and of which it was then a part,) to Alveva, a Saxon lady, in the reign of the Confessor; at the survey, …