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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Hillington HILLINGTON, Called in Domesday Book, … sole heir of Thomas Lord Scales, brought it by marriage to Anthony Lord Scales, and Earl Rivers. In the sixth year of … 21, 1374, and proved July 6, following) in the chapel of St. Mary in the conventual church of Campsey priory in …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Islington ISLINGTON. This village is wrote in … Scales, and by his only daughter and heir, Elizabeth, to Anthony Woodvile, (by marriage,) Earl Rivers, and Lord … wife, daughter and heir of Richard Neale, of Wigenhale, St. Mary Magdalen, which Sir George, died January 10, 1598, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Lynn LYNN. This ancient town takes its name from the … Savathan in Wales, Lacus Magnus, a great lake Leland in his Itinerary, and Camden give the same interpretation, and … the chapel, or retiring place of the Virgin, that is of St. Margaret the Virgin, the tutelar saint, or patroness of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Mintling MINTLING, Called in Domesday Book, … of William de Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford, which he held in his own right, as a temporal fee, and not in right of his … their land in Mintlingis, which is held of the church of St. Margaret of Linn. This deed is dated on the day after the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half North Lynn NORTH LYNN. The principal lordship of … town, was, in the Confessor's reign, in the abbot of Bury, his lordship of Islington extending into it, and at the … abbey, 16 s. 9 d. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Edmund. The ancient valor was 15 marks, Peter-pence, 1 d. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half South Lynn SOUTH LYNN. The chief lordship of this … and heir of Thomas Lord Scales brought it by marriage to Anthony Woodvile Lord Scales; and on her death, the families … and North Rungton, and the advowson of the hospital of St. Laurence at Herdwyk Dam, together with the rents, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half West Lynn WEST LYNN. Hermerus de Ferrarriis's manor … land and a saltwork, valued at 4 s. 6 d. per ann. of which his predecessors had only the soc. 1 Soon after this, it came … all his tenement, which he held of them in the parish of St Peter's of Lenn, with all his service: witnesses, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half West-Bilney WEST-BILNEY, Called Benelai in Domesday … 19th of that King, on the aid granted on the marriage of his sister to the emperor; another of the said name died in … de Neve, dated at Bilney, Monday after the feast of St. Dionys the martyr, ao. 27 Edward III. Drew's seal is, a …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half Wyken, alias Ashwyken, Lesiate, and Holt WYKEN, … Wells or Wells priory in Geyton, reserving to himself, and his men of Wyke, common of pasture in the town of Holt; and … Farmer, and others, aliened to the master of the gild of St. Mary, in Le Baylle de Thetford, one messuage called …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred Custhorp CUSTHORP Was a village in the Saxon age, and at the survey called Culestorpa, and Sculatorpa, as … carucate. 1 This was most likely given by the Lord Tony to his priory on the foundation of it, and at the dissolution … Archbishop. In 1506, I find mention of a pilgrimage to St. Thomas of Westacre. 2 It was built chiefly of flint, was …