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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Book, Helingetuna, as lying near the water; thus Hely, or Ely, and Helingham, or Elingham. Berner, captain of the … which Vlveruna, a free-woman, possessed in King Edward's time; consisting of 2 carucates of land, and 15 acres; … a salt pit, 100 sheep, but at the survey 80, &c. valued formerly at 4 l. now at 5 l. per ann. the whole was one leuca …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… site, near to the river Ouse, (called by the Britons Isse, or Ise,) on meadows. Bundo, a considerable thane in the reign … Tilney, Clenchwarton, Wygenhale, Howe, &c. one knight's fee, and a quarter, and to have assise of bread, &c. And in … consisted of 2 carucates of land, 3 villains, 7 borderers; formerly there were 2 carucates in demean, at the survey but …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… town takes its name from the Britons. In the grand survey, or book of Domesday, it is wrote Lena, and Lun, and in the … same interpretation, and Selden in his notes on Drayton's Polyolbion confirms the same. 1 That the same word was used … Norwich still retain their ancient right and privileges as formerly, of presenting a curate or minister to this church, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… fee, and not in right of his church, by the Conqueror's grant and expulsion of 15 freemen, who held here 40 acres … being so called long before the see at Elmham, Thetford, or Norwich, had any right or interest in it; Mel is to be met … the monks of Castleacre, his land at Agonalosa, which they formerly held of him, with one Rodulf, to which deed, Robert, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… South Lynn SOUTH LYNN. The chief lordship of this hamlet or village, was held by Herold, in the reign of King Edward … for 2 messuages, the site of a mill, 1 acre of meadow, 100 s. rent, and 8 quarters of salt in South Lenn, Lenn Bishop's, … 2d year of Henry IV. all his messuage in Seche, which he formerly purchased of William de Wynch, with all the lands, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and Half West Lynn WEST LYNN. Hermerus de Ferrarriis's manor of Tilney and Islington, extended into this hamlet, … called; and by the survey we find, he had invaded or seized on the property of two freemen, who held in King … Gent. The Church is dedicated to St. Peter, and was formerly valued at 12 marks, Peter-pence, 1 d. The present …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… WEST-BILNEY, Called Benelai in Domesday book, was the lordship of Bundo, (in the time of King Edward the … was 8 furlongs long, and 4 broad, and paid 6 d. to a 20 s. gelt. 1 West Bilney Manor Belhouse's. Hugh de Montfort was … 3d of Edward I. and they held it of the honour of Hagenet or Haughley, in Suffolk, and paying castle guard to Dover. On …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Leuric, a Saxon freeman, held the chief lordship in Wiche, or Wica, (as it is wrote in Domesday book,) in the reign of … was probably the great Earl of Coventry, in King Edward's time. It consisted of two carucates of land, and Roger held … at the survey there was but one carucate in demean, formerly two, and one amongst the tenants, at the survey but …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… of Pentney, of which Hagane 1 was lord in the Confessor's time: it consisted of one carucate of land, 6 borderers, 3 … in demean, 16 acres of meadow, 3 beasts for burden, formerly of 20 mares, at the survey of 7,20 animalia, … I. William Howard, (the founder of the Norfolk family, or a son of him,) purchased of the said Alexander, by fine, 3 …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Win, which in the British language signifies water, and Ic or Ise, a general name, in these parts for any stream or … it, or had the care of it for the King. 1 In King Edward's time it was a beruite to Sporle, (a considerable lordship … with 6 villains, 3 borderers, and 2 carucates valued formerly at 40 s. at the survey at 60 s. and Robert de Vaux …