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... Domesday , now represented by the hamlet of Middlemead in Baddow , though I have no proof that this derivation is right . In that case the Mildmays , unlike most of the great land - owning families of Essex , were , like the Strutts ...
... Domesday , now represented by the hamlet of Middlemead in Baddow , though I have no proof that this derivation is right . In that case the Mildmays , unlike most of the great land - owning families of Essex , were , like the Strutts ...
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... Domesday the bishop's manor was assessed at 8 hides , and Moulsham at only a hide and a quarter , the latter was the more extensive manor , and lay , compactly enough , apart from that of Chelmsford . A record recently cited by me ...
... Domesday the bishop's manor was assessed at 8 hides , and Moulsham at only a hide and a quarter , the latter was the more extensive manor , and lay , compactly enough , apart from that of Chelmsford . A record recently cited by me ...
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... Domesday it figured as " Bishop's Hall mill , " with over 10 acres of meadow , at the recent sale . This manor came to Thomas Mildmay , the auditor , by grant from Queen Elizabeth , in 1563 , the year after he had sold Guy Harlings ...
... Domesday it figured as " Bishop's Hall mill , " with over 10 acres of meadow , at the recent sale . This manor came to Thomas Mildmay , the auditor , by grant from Queen Elizabeth , in 1563 , the year after he had sold Guy Harlings ...
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... Domesday Survey to our own time . He urged that , though his hearers might be " tired with this long genealogical survey , it may assist us when we come to discuss the various parts of the mansion . " Quite so ; but it is perfectly ...
... Domesday Survey to our own time . He urged that , though his hearers might be " tired with this long genealogical survey , it may assist us when we come to discuss the various parts of the mansion . " Quite so ; but it is perfectly ...
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... Domesday Survey of Colchester which deals with the bishop's soke ' ; but was he right in doing so ? He supports his statement by the evidence of three independent documents . The first is " an inquest " of 10 Edw . II . ( 1316-7 ) in ...
... Domesday Survey of Colchester which deals with the bishop's soke ' ; but was he right in doing so ? He supports his statement by the evidence of three independent documents . The first is " an inquest " of 10 Edw . II . ( 1316-7 ) in ...
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Page 25 - Tout passe. — L'art robuste Seul a 1'e'ternite. Le buste Survit a la cite', Et la me'daille austere Que trouve un laboureur Sous terre Revele un empereur.
Page 80 - Thurbearn. First Thurbearn, and then Hamo, besides a house, had a " curia," a rare word whose use I do not fully understand. And this " curia " seems, I know not on what ground, to be identified with an existing house which keeps portions of Romanesque date. The first entry of all is also one of a good deal of interest, as marking the subdivision of property in Old-English times. The houses and other property of Godric — one of the many bearers of one of the commonest of English names — had been...
Page 63 - ... substance fastened with a silken lace ; within this were found whole bones and many pieces of small bones wrapped up in fine silk of fresh colour, which the Abbot took for the relics of some saint, and laid up in his vestiary ; but more probably it was a Eoman urn.
Page 96 - Lawrence, in the sixth year of the reign of King Richard the Second after the Conquest...