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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred St. German's Wigenhale ST. GERMAN'S WIGENHALE. William de Scohies had … of Earl Walter this lordship came to Rohesia, his daughter or sister, who being married to Richard Fitz-Gilbert Earl of … of that King, to John Ledred for life. The river Ouse, formerly between this town and Islington, used to run between …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred Tilney TILNEY. The Lord Bardolf's manor of Islington, and that of William de Scohies of … and the presentation to the church of Tilney belonged formerly to the Lord Bardolfs, as capital lords. Chervile's Manor. The family of Cherevile, or Kervile, was early enfeoffed of part. In the 10th of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… is, that there was at that time, no independent manor or lordship, with its lands here, held of the King; all the … to be paid to the lord byfree heirs after their father's decease, now called a Hariot. By this it appears that the … fourth part of a fee, which Peter, son of John Spalding, formerly held; and the said John and Joan, with Robert de …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred Walpole WALPOLE Takes it name from the great wall, or sea bank, raised to defend it, and from a pool, or deep … with 6 borderers, who had half a carucate valued at 5 s. per ann. which was possessed by a freeman in the … part of a fee of the Earl of Gloucester, which John Lovell formerly held, and had a charter for free-warren in all his …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… WEST WINCH. West Winch Manor. Rainald, son of Ivo, held the chief lordship of this town, at the time of the grand … and 1 servus, at the survey, but of 4 in King Edward's time, 20 acres of meadow, 2 carucates in demean, and half a … de Beauveys, and probably was the same James de Beauveys, or de Belvago, one of the first mayors of Lynn, in 1270; and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… West-Walton WEST-WALTON. That is, a town by the wall or mound which was to defend it from the tides, &c. and … of it. Toche, a freeman, was lord of it in the Confessor's time, a Saxon thane of great possessions, lord also of … amongst the tenants; seven salt works at the survey, and formerly 36 breeding mares; at the survey none, &c. paunage …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… in respect of its site on a river, as Southacre, Castle, or East-Acre, all which towns occur in the Conqueror's book of Domesday, by the name of Acre, without any adjunct … was also then living, and had a pension of 26 s. 8 d. as (formerly) steward of this priory. He was an eminent lawyer, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Dugdale, in his History of Imbanking, 1 is of opinion that the Romans were the persons who originally gained from the … of them is this; that Hermeru 1 de Ferrarijs had invaded or ejected a freeman out of half a carucate of land that he held in Wigrehale in King Edward's time valued at 3 s. per ann. and of him he had not the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… in this town was in the family of Caprevill, Cherevile or Kervile. Sir Frederick (or Fraer) de Caprevilla gave by deed, sans date, in the beginning of Henry the Third's reign to the prior of Castleacre, his tenement and manor, … per pale, azure and or, a lis counterchanged. There were formerly in this church, in the east window of the chancel, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred Wigenhale St. Mary's WIGENHALE ST. MARY'S. Hermerus de Ferrariis, who had by the gift of the Conqueror, lordships in Tilney, and … to the lords Bardolph. The ancient family of Capravill, or Kervile, held the chief manor in this town, of the Lords …