The Lawless Courts of Rayleigh and the Rochford Hundred

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• There is a general synonymity of the Barony or Honour and the Hundred of Rochford dating from the de Essex escheat of '164.
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• See above.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• P ossibly the whole = 10s. 4d.?
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• Viz., the whole marsh = 8s. 2d. rent?
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• Possibly both together = 10s. 8d.?
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