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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… is by no means a true derivation of Magdeburgh, which is a Saxon name, taken from its site, as was the custom in the Saxon age, and before. May, or Mag, signifies some … have observed) in Agelmare or Ailmar, Bishop of Elmham, a Saxon married prelate, in the time of King Edward the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… of Bundo, (in the time of King Edward the Confessor,) a Saxon thane, who had lordships in Islington, Midleton, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Holt WYKEN, alias ASHWYKEN, LESIATE, and HOLT. Leuric, a Saxon freeman, held the chief lordship in Wiche, or Wica, (as … granted him by the Conqueror, on the expulsion of Ulwic, a Saxon freeman, who enjoyed it in King Edward's days, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred Custhorp CUSTHORP Was a village in the Saxon age, and at the survey called Culestorpa, and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… it at the conquest, and Aeled held it of him, Bundo, a Saxon Thane, being deprived of it, who had 2 carucates of … following, to Sir Henry Spelman; who, on his founding a Saxon lecture in Cambridge, conferred that office on Mr. … on him the pecuniary stipend, to enable him to prosecute a Saxon Dictionary, which would more improve that tongue, than …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… trust of honour, or dignity committed to him. How, in Saxon, signifies a Hill or Mound, and so it may signify from … the book of Domesday made by the Conqueror, I meet with a Saxon thane to have been lord of Boyton in Waltham hundred, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… often here occur. That the town of Tyrington was in the Saxon age, long before the Conquest, appears from a grant of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… constantly performed and due. Ely Manor. Oswi, a noble Saxon, and Leofleda his wife, father and mother of Alwyn, … the cathedral of Ely, are some very antique paintings of Saxon Bishops, &c. one representing the Bishop aforesaid, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… a freeman, was lord of it in the Confessor's time, a Saxon thane of great possessions, lord also of Castleacre, in …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… same stream, or running water, as Acre signifies in the Saxon tongue. See in Castleacre. At the survey it was the …