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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parson, to Henry, dean of Fordham, presumably to endow his hospital there. 48 When that hospital was converted c. … of the 55 marks at which the church was valued in 1254, and taxed on 20 out of 75 marks in 1291. 50 About 1307 the … a tithe portion of £1 was due out of Fordham church to St. Benet's abbey, Hulme (Norf.). 61 About 1260 1 a. was …
A History of the County of Essex
… descended with the manor from 1325 or earlier, the lord or his nominee presenting, except in 1391, 1451, 1454, 1486, 1492, and 1533 when the king presented. After the ownership of the … Eight Ash Green, built in 1898 as a chapel of ease to St. Michael's, Copford, was transferred to Fordham as a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1086 blanch, besides a three-day food farm of wheat, malt, and honey. That farm had been converted to a cash payment of … 63 and the early 17th. 64 One who died in 1563 left his freeholds to one son, leaseholds and copyholds to … DL 29/291/4780; cf. below, Soham, econ. (manors). St. John's Coll. Mun., D 97.182: 18, 26, 30 Hen. VI. Ibid.: …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish, Great Fordham manor was concentrated in the east and south-east, Archentines manor was in the north-west but … median for vills in Lexden hundred in 1327 when Mary of St. Paul, the lady of the manor, was the high- est assessed … groves were recorded from the 13th century; one held by St. John's abbey was in or near land at Perifeld, perhaps the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Education EDUCATION. Schoolmasters were reported in 1619 and 1629, 2 also c. 1690. 3 The master recorded 1723-40 4 … school, which in 1834 took 37 boys aged up to eighteen and was styled by 1837 Fordham Academy. 9 By 1833, besides … an enrolment of 110 pupils including 60 boys, taught with his wife and then his daughter, besides pupil-teachers, c. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Huntingdon's Connexion in Fordham, to educate 5 poor boys and 5 poor girls. The school so founded had 15 pupils in … 1833. Two Sunday schools, provided largely by the rector and his family, continued in 1841 when the rector also paid for …
A History of the County of Essex
… fol- lowed field boundaries rather than natural features, and cut through fields where estates straddled the … settlement south of the Colne in Aldham. Land held by St. John's abbey in the Middle Ages probably included the … Village competition in the north-east Essex area. 91 The St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic charity ran a youth …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… In 1299 the prior of Fordham, already in 1279 entitled to his tenants' fines for breaking the assizes of bread and of ale, 84 successfully claimed under a charter of Henry … ct. roll 10 Jas. I. C.R.O., L 1/73, s.a. 1659, 1684. St. John's Coll. Mun., D 97. 182-5. Ibid. D 97.340-50 (not …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1253 Warin de Munchensy obtained a grant of free warren in his Fordham land. 10 He also withdrew three men and a reeve from the sheriff's tourn. By 1274 Reynold … from Richard of Fordham's tenement in Great Fordham, and held view of frankpledge and took fines for breaches of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fordham Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. Probably in the … half was assigned to Richard de Clare, tenant until 1192. His kinsman, Earl Gilbert de Clare, claimed it c. 1220. 78 In … accordingly included in the endowment of her foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge. 76 The college retained that …