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A History of the County of Berkshire
… of a trading community and probably the grant of burghal rights. But besides Speen and Ulvritone Thatcham …
A History of the County of Worcester
… VIII the portmote court seems to have been losing its burghal character, the change being reflected in the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of the abbot and to have been in danger of losing its burghal status. It is not among the Berkshire boroughs 'which … it had absorbed many of the powers of the primitive burghal institution of Reading. It possessed a meadow bearing …
A History of the County of Surrey
… a saltire argent with a rose gules thereon. As to local burghal authority, there may be in Domesday a reference to … is a reference to the past aid of the borough, 21 and burghal payments were made throughout the reign of Henry II … of justice. 41 Evidence of separate action on the part of burghal authorities exists chiefly in royal grants to the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… local government in Surrey. In the document known as the 'Burghal Hidage,' assigned approximately to 900, there is the entry: …
A History of the County of Surrey
… those rights of the liberty which were equivalent to the burghal rights from which it was exempt. The liberty may …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… to the townsmen included freedom from geld, danegeld and hidage, from murder fines, 'blodewite' and 'bredewite.' The …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 83 Wallingford was one of the 'burhs' enumerated in the Burghal Hidage. In the reign of Edward the Confessor it was already a …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… the auxilium Vicecomitis, Danegelt, etc., was based on the hidage; hence the expression, se defendit, the object being to make the hidage as small as possible. Ad opus, i.e., for villain …