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The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Willingham in demesne under Burchard, a wealthy Saxon, in the time of Edward the Confessor; but at the period of the Norman Survey the parish was returned as the lordship of Hugo de Montfort. It was one leuca in length, and one in breadth, and paid five pence gelt. In the ninth of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Willingham Charities for the poor Charities for the poor In 1876 four eleemosynary and two educational charities were united as the Willingham Parochial Charities. 68 Details of the earlier history of the four pauper charities follow. Henry Greaves, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Willingham Church CHURCH Fragments of an Anglo-Saxon cross and grave covers have been found at … and there is architectural evidence for a church in the 12th century. 86By 1251 the benefice was a rectory in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Willingham Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY In 1086 the abbot of Ely's demesne … ploughteams. 62Two demesne ploughteams, each of 2 horses and 6 oxen, were at work in 1251 on 309 a. evenly distributed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… List of maps Introduction WILLINGHAM The parish of Willingham, 95until the 18th century also known … West River, forming a triangle with a base on the river and an apex to the south. It covered 4,694½ a. until 1884, … 1830. Spufford, Contrasting Communities, 21 n., citing survey 1970 by A. P. Baggs and R. F. Taylor (copy of survey …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Williton and Freemanors Hundred (eastern) Introduction WILLITON AND FREEMANORS HUNDRED The hundred lies near the western end of the county. 1 It occupies the southern slopes of Exmoor, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WILGEBI. In Wilgebi there was soe to Nortwell, of the arch-bishop of Yorks fee, as much as answered the tax before and after the Conquest, for three bov. and an half. 1 The … six bord. and four acres of meadow, when the Conquerours survey was made, being then valued at 10s. but in former …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Helen) WILLOUGHBY ( St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Spilsby, Wold division of the hundred of Calceworth, parts … miles (S. S. E.) from Alford; containing 661 inhabitants, and including the hamlets of Abbertoft, Asthorpe, Bonthorpe, …
The medieval records of a London City church
… I. [WILLS.] [ MS. B. is a book containing a series of copies and abstracts of documents, the collection of which was commenced in 1486.] 1 The …
Additional Material for the History of the Grey Friars, London
… Street, widow of John Basset, d. 1426. To be buried in the Church of the Friars Minors. Will dated 11 Feb., 14312. … Luffenam. Appears in the Register as Thomas Barro, citizen and vintner. He was buried in the centre of the second bay of … 5 October, 1468. 25 Godyn. He was mayor in 14534. See Survey of London, i, 271. Doctor Godard is presumably William …