Jottings for early history of the Levinge familyBrowne & Nolan, 1873 - 78 pàgines |
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30 acres Abbot acres of meadow acres of pasture acres of wood afterwards Aluric arable land maintains Archbishop assessed Bishop Bishop of Lichfield Bishop of Worcester bondmen bordars Canterbury carucates of land Chron Church Cnut demesne Ealdorman four ploughs Godwin half a hide half a plough held by LEUUINUS held it freely held this land held this manor Hist hogs holds one hide hundred shillings King Edward's king's LAND OF EARL LAND OF ROGER LAND OF WALTER LEOFWIN LEUING held Leuric LEUUINUS held LEUUINUS-For LEWINUS LIVIN manor in King mill monastery monks ONGAR HUNDRED Oskettil oxen oxgangs oxgangs of land pannage pence plough and a-half ploughland priest quarenteens long Robert Roger holds rood-land Saxon serfs servants seven shillings shillings.-f soke sokemen swine taxed THEGNS three ploughs Value in King vassal villanes villeins virgate WAPENTAKE William holds Worcester worth 20s worth ten shillings worth twenty shillings
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Pàgina 26 - They also seized two gilt shrines, and nine of silver, and they carried off fifteen great crosses of gold and silver. And they took so much gold and silver, and so much treasure in money, robes, and books, that no man can compute the amount; saying they did this because of their allegiance to the monastery : and afterwards they betook themselves to their ships and went to Ely, where they secured their treasures. The Danes believed...
Pàgina 18 - This year went Siward the earl with a great army into Scotland, both with a ship-force and with a landforce, and fought against the Scots, and put to flight King Macbeth, and slew all who were the chief men in the land, and led thence much booty, such as no man before had obtained.
Pàgina 23 - In the centre waved the royal standard, the figure of a warrior in the act of fighting, worked in thread of gold, and ornamented with precious stones. By its side stood Harold and his two brothers Gurth and Leofwin; and around them the rest of the army, every man on foot. In this arrangement the king seems to have adopted, as far as circumstances would permit, the plan which had lately proved so fatal to the Norwegians, and which now, from the same causes, was productive of a similar...
Pàgina 19 - This year came the aforesaid army, after Easter, into East Anglia; and went up at Ipswich, marching continually till they came where they understood Ulfcytel was with his army. This was on the day called the first of the Ascension of our Lord.
Pàgina 26 - ... Frenchmen, and they drove away all the monks, leaving only one named Leofwin the Long, and he lay sick in the hospital. Then came the abbat Turold, and eight score Frenchmen with him, all well armed ; and when he arrived he found all burnt both within and without, excepting the church itself; and all the outlaws were then embarked, knowing that he would come thither. This happened on the fourth day before the Nones of June. Then the two kings, William and Sweyn, made peace with each other, on...
Pàgina 25 - Turold, and told him that he sought his protection, and told how the outlaws were coming to Peterborough, and he said that he had done this at the desire of the monks. Then early in the morning all the outlaws came with many ships, and they endeavoured to enter the monastery, but the monks withstood them, so that they were not able to get in. Then they set fire to it, and burned all the monks...
Pàgina 25 - Bolhithe-gate [Bulldyke gate], and the monks came before them and desired peace. However they gave no heed to them, but went into the monastery, and climbed up to the holy crucifix, took the crown from our Lord's head, which was all of the purest gold, and the footstool of red gold from under his feet. And they climbed up to the steeple, and brought down the table [crozier or cope?] which was hidden there; it was all of gold and silver.
Pàgina 18 - Scotland, both with a ship-force and with a land-force, and fought against the Scots, and put to flight king Macbeth, and slew all who were the chief men in the land, and led thence much booty, such as no man before had obtained. But his son Obborn, and his sister's son Siward, and some of his house-carls, and also of the king's, were there slain, on the day of the Seven Sleepers.
Pàgina 25 - Lent in the same year the king caused all the monasteries in England to be despoiled of their treasures. The same year king Sweyn came from Denmark into the Humber, and the people of those parts came to meet him and made an alliance with him, for they believed that he would conquer the land. Then the Danish bishop Christien, and earl Osbern, and their Danish retainers, came into Ely, and all the people of the fens joined them, for they believed that they should conquer the whole country. Now the...
Pàgina 25 - French abbot named Turold, and that he was a very stern man, and that he was come into Stamford with all his French followers. There was, at that time, a churchwarden named Ywar; who took all that he could by night, gospels, mass-robes, cassocks, and other garments, and such other small things as he could carry away, and he came before day to the abbot...