Historical Maps Of England During The First Thirteen Centuries With Explanatory Essays And Indices

Author : Charles Henry Pearson
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230056463
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Historical Maps of England, During the First Thirteen Centuries; with Explanatory Essays and Indices written by Charles Henry Pearson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...reduce our estimate to one-fifth or one-sixth 9. I append a short list of some of the most common Saxon words that occur among us in the names of places. I have drawn the definitions chiefly from Mr. Kemble's preface to the third volume of the Codex Diplomaticus, while the illustrations have been largely taken from the vocabulary, already cited, of Mr. Taylor. I have also used Mr. Earle's papers on Cheshire and Gloucestershire. 1Ew3/Zm, the spring from which a river or brook is fed. Ewelme (Oxon). Bazc, a beck, or brook. Northumbrian. Welbeck. The Mercian form is " batch," as Comberbatch, in Shropshire (Taylor). Mr. Earle calls this form Anglian. Beork, a hill. Ingleborough, in Yorkshire. Botl, a building or dwelling-place. New-bottle. Bothwell. Broc, a brook. Holbrook, in Gloucestershire. Br;/cg, a bridge. Tonbridge. geld for Wilts ( 675 7s. 2cents1.) by the total hideage (3822), the product is very nearly 42cents1. to the hide, and the difference between this and six shillings must be accounted for by exemptions, which must, I think, have been singularly numerous in the South-west. However, my present purpose is only to show that the hide in the South-western counties differed in some way from that in use near London. Domesday, II. ff. 72a, 75a, 88a. ' Hale's Domesday of St. Paul's, p. xiii. 7 Dialogus de Scaccario, p. 31. "Hic numerus Anglice computatur," i.e. c. pro cxx. Domesday, I. f. 336. " The Conqueror's knights may be looked for in two classes, which Sir H. Ellis estimates at 1400 and 7871 respectively: but from these must be deducted barons, personal attendants of the king, and those who held land by frank-almoigne, as Girald de Wiltun held Upton, or by any