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Glossary

Alder Car—Kiarr (Old Scan.) a marsh.

Assart—Waste enclosed and converted to arable.

Barracks—Barre oke, barrier of or by oak.

Baye—division of a house or barn.

Bordar—holder of five acres to half a virgate.

Bovate—oxgang, amount one ox pair can till.

Breck—Braec  (Mid. Eng.) newly cultivated  enclosure or assart—by—abode or single farm (Ang. Sax.). Button Park—button, mound or hill.

Brock—badger.

Carucate—eight oxgangs or about 100 acres.

Carr—Kiarr, a marsh.

Conery—coninger, a rabbit.

Cottar—holder of less than five acres, or none.

Croft—piece of enclosed ground, adjacent to a house.

Demesne—land occupied and farmed as Home Farm by the Lord of the Manor.

Farthings—feorung, a fourth part.

Fold—enclosure made of felled trees (Ang. Sax.).

Gullet—water channel, or culvert.

Ham—house or dwelling.

Hay(e)—haeg, woodland enclosure (Ang. Sax.).

Headland—heafcd, place where the plough turns.

Heselberclif—haesal, hazel.

Hide—about 120 acres, or four virgates.

Ley—leah a woodland clearing. (Ang. Sax.).

Leydyate—hlidgeat, swing gate. (Ang. Sax.).

Manor—estate of a single lord worked by tenurial labour.

Messuage—portion of land occupied for dwelling-house.

Ming—Ang. Sax. mang—mixed field.

Mikel—micel, big.

Moseleysipes—meos, marshy; leah, clearing; sipe, syke, stream.

Pease Greaves—graef, grove or thicket.

Pale Close—enclosed by a pale fence.

Pickhills

Pingle—pightel, small enclosure (Mid. Eng.).

Presbyter—priest attached to an Ecclesia or Manor.

Ruff—rough.

Shackerdale—sceacere, robber: d»el. valley. (Old Eng.).

Sick Close sic, a small stream. (Old. Eng.).

Shipley—sheep pasture.

Slade—a dingle or greensward.

Spray Close—system of land-drainajje by means of twigs in trenches.

Stankerhill—stane, stone; kiarr, marsh. (Old. Scan.).

Stinted Common—pasture for limited and stated num­ber of beasts.

Star Close—store, brushwood. (Old. Scan.).

Toft—site of house or outbuildings. (Norse).

Vill—tract of territory with a name of its own.

Villain—holder of half a virgate or more. (Virgate— average, thiry acres).

Walk Mill—fullinsr mill. Fullers nicknamed walkers, from early fulling method.

Manorholders, tenants et al.

Not an exhaustive list, extracted from Thoroton, Curteis, Cox, Thoroton Soc. publications, Record Commission publications, and Yeatman's Feudal History, pre 1086. Three brothers, possibly Aluric, Alsa, and Elrics.

1086.

William Peverel. (Domesday Bk.).

1195.

Robertas Fretel. (Pipe Roll. 7 Rich. 1).

1213.

Radulfus, Parson of Linby. (Middleton MSS).

1218.

Peter de Lectris. (Test, de Nevil).

 

William de St. Michael (Test, de Nev).

1230.

Laurence de St. Michael, who pays   as  rent  for

 

Linby, one skin of seven pleats, (-j. pellice grisie

 

de vij fessis — Pipe Roll. 14 Henry III).

1243.

Robert de Marys, guardian of Laurence de St.

 

Michael. (Feodary 27 Hen. III).

1250.

Escheat of Henry III when Wm. Peverel  the

 

younger fled the realm after poisoning the Earl of

 

Chester. (Inquisitiones Post Mortem) .

1304.

Thomas de la Haye and John le Colyer. (Archives

 

of Newstead).

1311.

John, son of Thomas Metham, through Sibel his

 

wife. (Inq. P.M.).

 

Henry de Hastings (Dukery Records).

1312.

John Comyn, one of the competitors against the

 

Bruce for the Crown of Scotland. On his death his

 

estate passed to his son, the Earl of Birmingham.

 

(Dukery Rec.)

1314.

John le Colyer. (Abbrev. Rotul. Orig.)

1320.

Sibell, Wife of  John Metham. (Inq. ad Quod

 

Damnum.)

1324.

William de la Pole, through marrying Sibell.

 

(Inq. ad Quod. Damn.)

1327.

John de Crumbewell, from Hugh le Colyer.

 

(Archives of Newstead)

1329.

Richard and William de la Pole. (Inq. P.M.).

 

Isabellla, Queen of England; Sir William

 

Hameldon. (Thoroton).

1343.

Sir Thomas de Bourne.

1344.

John de Fenton, Roger Verdoun, John Tuppe,

 

Robert de la Haye, John de Rempston, Robert

 

Dirre, Roger de Kymarle, Thomas de Kymarly,

 

Robert Adcocke, Jasper Duke of Bedford, Thomas

 

Stanley. (Archives of Newstead) .

1350.

Robert Maule, one of the Foresters. (Ab. Rot.

 

Orig).

1366.

Robert de la Vache. (Inq. P.M.).

1392.

Queen Anne (Rich. II).

1403.

Joan, Qe Navarre. (Hen. IV) .

1428.

Thomas Hunt seised this moiety and left it to

 

descend to his daughter Joan, wife of  John

 

Hickling, she being above thirty years old.

 

(Inq. P.M.).

1431.

Thomas Bayle, tenant of  Joan of  Navarre.

 

(Boro. Rec.).

1432.

Alianora, wife of Nicholas Dagworth. (Inq. P.M.).

 

John Inglefield.

1452.

Edmund, Earl of Richmond. Inq. P.M.).

 

Jasper, Earl of Pembroke.

1477.

Edmund, Earl of Pembroke.

Pre

1486. John  Strelley (d.4 Mar.2 Hen VII),  married

 

Elizabeth Mering.

1486/7

John Babington and James Savage, during

 

Nicholas Strelley's minority. (I.P.M.).

1495.

Nicholas Strelley.

1514.

Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.

1529.

Robert Pym (who killed John Harbrock of

 

Papplewick. Pardoned on condition of one year's

 

service overseas for the King) .

1535.

plus. Stavely, through marrying Isabella, sister

 

and heiress of Strelley.

Pre 1

554. George Chaworth.

Pre 1

577. Savile.

1578.

William Savile, and M. Earle.

Pre -1609

Henry Ellwes and Edward Bates, both of

 

London, who sold Linby to Byron.

1609.

Sir John Byron.

1636.

Alice, Lady Dormer (sister-in-law of Byron: d. Sir

 

Richard Molyneux).

 

Sir William Pennyman

 

Sir William Stanhope, who left his Linby estates

 

to the grandfather of Lord Harrington, who in his

 

turn sold them to the great-grandfather of Andrew

 

Montagu.

 

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