Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood: Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other MatterWalter, J. Conway (James Conway)
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Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood: Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
Walter, J. Conway (James Conway)
Woodhall Spa (England)
{220a} “Britannia,” p. 742. His name, as “Terrius de Bevra,” (Bevere,
or Bever-lee in Holderness), he holding the Seigniory of that country,
appears among the “Milites Flandriæ” in the rolls of Ban and Arriere Ban,
in the time of Philip Augustus. To show that he was of a somewhat
overbearing spirit, it is related of him, that the Conqueror, having
bestowed upon him the lordship of Holderness, he was not content with
that, but claimed all the land held by the church of St. John (now the
Minster) at Beverley, with which it had been endowed by the King.
{220b} “Linc. N. & Q.,” vol. ii., pp. 10 and 108.
{220c} “Ibid.,” pp. 141, 142.
{220d} “Ibid.,” p. 228.
{221a} “Linc. N. & Q.,” vol. iii., pp. 245, 246.
{221b} “Ibid.,” p. 150. The above Burgavenny should be Abergavenny, in
South Wales, but both forms were used.
{222} A similar thoroughfare formerly existed through the tower of the
old All Saints’ Church at Cambridge, and there is still one through the
tower of the church at March.
{223} In the church at Walton-on-Thames there is preserved in the
vestry, a scold’s bridle: two flat steel bands, which go over the head,
face, and round the nose, with a flat piece going into the mouth and
fixing the tongue. It locks at the back of the head. It bears this
inscription:—
Chester presents Walton with a bridle
To curb women’s tongues that be idle;
the said Chester being, it is said, a man who lost money through a
talkative woman of Walton. An engraving of a “brancks” is given in the
volume of the Archæological Institute for 1848, p. 211. It was
exhibited, by Col. Jarvis of Doddington, at Lincoln, on the visit of the
Institute to that city.
{228} River names, as Taylor, in his “Words and Places” (p. 130), tells
us, are almost invariably of Celtic, _i.e._ British, origin. “Ban” means
bright, or clear, and is found not only in our Bain, but in several other
rivers. There is a Bain in Hertfordshire, a Ben in Co. Mayo, Bandon in
Co. Cork, Bann in Co. Wexford, Bana Co. Down, Bannon (or Ban-avon) in
Pembrokeshire, Banney in Yorkshire, &c.
{229a} “Britannia,” pp. 470, 471.
{229b} The name de Albini, corrupted into Daubeny survives, as a family
name, and as a place-name in many localities. In the writer’s own parish
there is a field called “Daubney’s Walk,” and a small stream named
“Daubney’s Beck.”
{229c} The Patent Roll, 15 Henry III., m. 2, gives this: Pro Roberto de
Tatteshale—Rex concessit Roberto de Tatteshale quod libere et sine
impedimento unam domum de petra et calce firmari faciat apud manerium
suum de Tatteshal. In cujus &c, teste Rege, apud Hereford xxj die Maii.
Et mandatum est vicecomiti Linc. per literas clauses quod ipsam dictam
domum firmare permittat sicut prædictum est; teste ut supra.
{230} “Itin.,” p. 162.
{231a} See “Proceedings of Essex Archæol. Society,” vol. iv.; and
“Beauties of England,” vol. x., p. 285.
{231b} “Beauties of England—Sussex,” vol. xiv., p. 205.
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