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Robert del Clyff

He was quite a character from the 1367 Court Roll reading by Mark Bailey. Note that this was after the Pestilence so he may have felt that he had the upper hand. —May 1356 ‘refuses to perform plough services as summoned by the lord’s reap reeve on four occasions’, fined 12d.  ‘pastures his sheep on le hethe against the will…
alyson
November 22, 2016
Anglo SaxonChurchDocumentsInstitutionsLord of ManorNotesPeoplePeriods

1035 and 1044 gift of land Leofgifu

Update: 01FEB20 Another, slightly later, document we found is an example of this confusion. An academic paper ((Williams, A. (n.d.) Earls, ceorls, thegns and lords.))  quoted: 'between 1035 and 1044, the East Anglian lady Leofgifu gave Godric her reeve the land at Waldringfield, Suffolk, which she had previously loaned to him.' For some time we took this to be correct…
alyson
November 21, 2016
Court RollsDocumentsMiddle AgesNotesPeriods

Information from Court Rolls

We have Court Rolls dating back to 1356 for the Manor of Waldringfield Hilton and from 1561 for the Manor of Waldringfield Rivershall. These refer to Manors rather than to Waldringfield or Lesser  Waldringfield as in the Domesday book. They clearly overlapped the current parish but may have had diffent boundaries. As we saw in the Domesday Book records holding…
alyson
November 19, 2016
AudioMiddle AgesSlide Presentations

2015 Prof Mark Bailey The Black Death in Suffolk and Waldringfield talk

Here's the sound track of Mark's talk as well as the slides black-death-waldringfield Extracted notes: Social structure: Rivershall manor 1367   ---3 free holdings, yielding total 7s. 6d. rent pa, 3+ tenants ---11 unfree (‘bond’, ‘customary’) holdings, total 28s. 3½d. rent pa, 13+ tenants e.g. Roger and Juliana Tidy hold 1 messuage + 10 acres, paying 4s. 8½d. pa, 2…
alyson
January 8, 2016
Anglo SaxonWill

0975 Will of Æthelflæd

Full text  - Anglo-Saxons aethelflaed will.   A.D. 962 x 991, probably after 975. Will of Æthelflæd, including bequest of land at Lambourn, Cholsey and Reading, Berks., to the king; at Damerham, Hants., to Glastonbury; at Hamme to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Woodham, Essex, to Ealdorman Brihtnoth and her sister for life, with reversion to St Mary's, Barking; at Hadham, Herts.,…
alyson
May 4, 2015
Anglo SaxonLocation/FeaturePlaces

Before the Sea Walls

It is interesting to speculate on how the village would have been before the sea walls were built. Notice the  that the ] refers to "field" rather than a landing place ending (give an example?). Looking at the village today it seems obvious that it should have grown up around the beach or cliff area where it's easy to access…
alyson
January 13, 2014
WW2

Operation Quicksilver and Bigbobs

This is an updated version of ] . In World War Two the Allies wanted Nazi Germany to believe that the invasion of Europe would land at Calais and not Normandy. Consequently in early 1943 a grand deception plan was devised code named  Operation Fortitude . A small part of this plan was  Operation Quicksilver and part of this was…
alyson
January 11, 2014
PeopleWW1

Bill Ogden MC

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alyson
July 13, 2012
Parish CouncilWW2

1939 to 1945 Waldringfield Parish Records

7/3/1939    at Village Hall A.R.P. Mr. Haig,the senior warden, reported that 13 people including the First Aid squad had attended a Red Cross course & all had passed the examination. That the Utility Squad were now attending an Anti-Gas course of instruction. That the Village Hall was to be the first aid point – gas proofing not being considered of…
alyson
July 13, 2012
Plan, Diagram, PlotArticlesWork to dateWW2

Waldringfield threatens Hitler

Note:this article has been updated see ] In World War Two the Allies wanted Nazi Germany to believe that the invasion of Europe would land at Calais and not Normandy. Consequently in early 1943 a grand deception plan was devised code named  Operation Fortitude . A small part of this plan was  Operation Quicksilver . The idea was to position…
alyson
March 7, 2011