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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1892 Excerpt: ... The following Notes are selected from Inquisitions which are entered in the Cartulary of Ramsey Monastery, ff. 66 &c. Inquisition Inquisition made touching the customs and rents of the men of the lord St Ives? Ac akbt n the vill of St. Ives, Wodehyrst and Waldehyrst, on the Friday next 6 Oct. after the Feast of St. Michael, in the 36th year of the reign of King Henry, son of King John 6 Oct. A.D. 1251 by Robert, son of Richeman, Robert Palmere, Robert son of the smith, and John at the Church. Who say upon their oath that the parish church of St. Ives was founded and dedicated in honour of All Saints; to which there pertains the two chapels of Wodehyrst and Waldehyrst; and the bodies of dead people of the vill of Wodehyrst and Waldehyrst were wont to be brought to be buried at St. Ives, which lately, to the prejudice of the mother church, are buried in the cemetery of Waldehyrst, not dedicated, as it is said. To which church, with the chapels, the abbot and convent of Ramsey present the vicar, because the prior of St. Ives takes, in the name of the parson, all titheable sheaves at St. Ives, Wodehyrst and Waldehyrst, and the tithe of hay. # And if a woman shall die, her husband being alive, the best beast shall remain to him, and the vicar shall take the second. Also for every house having a hearth he the vicar takes a halfpenny at Easter for the lighting of the church. From a man without a wife, and from a widow, a halfpenny. The vicar also has common with the township, and not with the abbot. «t» V ( w » In the vill of St. Ives there are three hides and half a virgate of land in villeinage, in Waldhyrst two hides, and in Wodehyrst four hides and four virgates of land in villeinage. Also five virgates make a hide, and 16 acres m...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123577242X
- ISBN 13 9781235772429
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
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