Archive for November 2014
Manorial term of the day “Geld”…
“Geld” an Anglo-Saxon levy, or tax, on property based on the “hide” “Hide” Anglo-Saxon land measurement , notionally 120 acres, used for calculating liability for geld.
Read MoreA feature by artist Max Scotto MSc
Portraiture has always been one of the foundations of British Art. Ever since the days of Holbein and Van Dyck, the nobility, the gentry, the affluent and the fashion-conscious have chosen to be immortalised by a portraitist. Portraiture has thrived in Britain with artists like Gainsborough, Raeburn, Lawrence and Sargent. The tradition has survived until…
Read MoreManorial term of the day “furlong”…
“furlong” a subdivision of open arable fields.
Read MoreManorial term of the day “Full age”…
“Full age” the age at which heirs were able to inherit land. The age varied according to local custom, but was normally 18 or 21 years.
Read MoreManorial term of the day “Free tenure”…
“Free tenure” tenure or status that denoted greater freedom of time and action than, say, customary tenure or status; a freeman was entitled to use the royal courts, and the title to free tenure was defensible there.
Read MoreManorial term of the day “Free warren”
“Free warren” a royal franchise granted to a manorial lord allowing the holder to hunt small game (rabbit, hare, pheasant and partridge) within a designated Vill: “Vill” a local unit of civil administration.
Read MoreOn this day 17th November, Elizabeth I succeeds Mary…
1558 – Elizabethan era (1558–1603) begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. Historians often depict the Elizabethan era as the golden age in English history.
Read MoreOn this day 16th November, Prince Edward…
1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward (Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots) becomes King of England upon Henry III of England’s death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
Read MoreManorial term of the day “Free bull”…
“Free bull” the right to have a bull run free among the village cattle.
Read MoreManorial term of the day “Free boar”…
“Free boar” the right to have a boar run free among the village swine and on local pastures
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