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- L. R. Cryer, A History of Rochford (1978).
- C. 1870, see Benton, History of the Rochford Hundred, and R. S. Charnock, Ancient Manorial Customs of Essex (1870).
- Benton, op. cit., pp. 838–41.
- Benton, op. cit., p. 711.
- Essex Record Office [E.R.0.] D/DCf M25.
- Benton, op. cit., p. 840.
- Ibid., p. 706.
- Weever, Funeral Monuments, p. 605.
- Salmon, History & Antiquities of Essex (1740).
- The emphasis is mine, but the translation is not and could be improved.
- P. H. Reaney, The Place Names of Essex, Vol. XII (1969), 196.
- See Wright, 'The Domesday Hide', Essex Arch. & Hist. (forthcoming); C. Taylor, Roads and Trackways of Britain (1978); Burrows, Southend-on-Sea and District Historical Notes' (1909).
- N. Salmon, History & Antiquities of Essex (1740), pp. 355–56.
- R. Whitlock, A Calendar of Country Customs (1978), p. 171.
- Powicke, The Thirteenth Century (1953), pp. 374-75.
- Ibid. (Norwich Chronicler), p. 369.
- N. Neilson in Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, Vol. ii, edited by Vinogradoff (1910).
- Stephenson & Marples, Law in the Light of History (1940), Vol. 11, 75.
- H. M. Cam, 'The Community of the Vill' in F. L. Cheyette, Lordship and Community in Medieval Europe (1968).
- C. Warren-Hollister, The Military Organisation ofNorman England (1965).
- Chamock, Manorial Customs of Essex, pp. 17–20; Hone, The Manor and Manorial Records (1906), p. 135 (Courts Baron), instances a Steward's staff-of-office of holly. Possibly the choice of a timber had some significance. The first reference to the Chingford 'Wardam' Court and attendance 'ad efforciamentum' is in the Essex Feet of Fines [F.F. (E)] 4 Hen. 111.62.
- N. Salmon, op. cit., and Inq. P.M. 8 Ed. II and 16 Ed. II (seriatim).
- F.F. (E), Vol. 1, 8 Jno. 213.
- Ibid., 9. Ric. 1. 58, iJno. 16.
- Trs. S.A.H.S., Vol. n, 2.
- op. cit.
- F.F. (E), Vol. 11, io. Ed. I, 126.
- Ibid., 12 Ed. I, 227 and H. M. Cam in Vinogradoff, Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, Vol. vi.
- Ibid., 8 Ed. I, 391.
- Ibid., 35 Ed. I, 894–
- Ibid., II Ed. II, 104; II Ed. II, 636; and 14 Ed. II, 856.
- Calendar of Ancient Deeds, Vol. I: 8 Hen. IV and 13 Hen. VII.
- F.F. (E) Vol. II, i,Ed. II, 682; Vol. Iv, 8 Hen. VI, 90.
- There is a general synonymity of the Barony or Honour and the Hundred of Rochford dating from the de Essex escheat of '164.
- Inq. P.M. 14 Hen. VII and 4 Ed. VI.
- Fisher, The Forest of Essex (1887), p. 167.
- Morant, History of Essex (1762), Vol. 1, 316 and 171–72. He is in some doubt as to which Lambourn Hall was intended.
- Quo Warranto 1242, quoting confirmation of temp. Henry II as the defence.
- op. cit.
- N. Salmon, History & Antiquities of Essex (1740), p. 354–
- See above.
- Wright (forthcoming in Essex Arch. & Hist.).
- D. M. Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1965), p. 136.
- Ainsworth's Dictionary (1817). Baxter and Johnson's Medieval Latin Word List (1950) gives crosier; per b. a method of tenure; 'bachillum' a stick. J. L. Fisher's Medieval Farming Glossary (Essex Records), (1968), gives hacula', stick, cudgel, stave of a mill-treadle.
- Salmon, op. cit., p. 359.
- Précis from E.R.O., D/DCf.M25 and M26 (dated 5760).
- Following the removal of the Court from its original site in Rayleigh in the mid-seventeenth century, the title 'King's Hill' also being transferred.
- P ossibly the whole = 10s. 4d.?
- Viz., the whole marsh = 8s. 2d. rent?
- Possibly both together = 10s. 8d.?