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- SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VIRGINIA
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF ISLE OF WIGHT, VIRGINIA, DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, INCLUDING ABSTRACTS OF THE COUNTY RECORDS, by John Bennett Boddie.
Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland. 1994. 756
p. Hardback; red cloth; new. HB is out of print.
This book is a comprehensive study of the early history and inhabitants of Isle of Wight County. It begins with a graphic description of the early settlers, including accounts of Quakers and Cavaliers and is followed by detailed histories of various Isle of Wight families:
APPLEWAITE [APPLEWHITE], BAKER, BENN, BRANCH, BOYKIN, CLAY, CLEMENTS, COPELAND, COTTEN, COUNCIL, CROCKER, DARDEN, DAWSON, DENSON, DIXON, FULGHAM, GILES, GOODRICH, GREEN, HARDY, HOLLADAY, JOHNSON, KINCHEN, LUPO, MARSHALL, NEVILLE, NORSWORTHY, PARKER, PITMAN, RICKS, SMITHS of Smithfield, SMITHS of Smith's Neck, THOMAS, TOOKE, WEST, WILLS, and WOODLEY.
Nearly 200 pages of this work are devoted to abstracts of deeds, land records, and quit rents. The work includes a 38-page name index of several thousand entries, and a place and subject index. The book contains a brief chapter on the native inhabitants; describes early white settlers; has about sixty pages of genealogical sketches (many of the early families came from the southwest of England); and has 53 pages on the history of the BENNETT families and 82 pages on the BODDIE (BODIE) families.
Other chapters are dedicated to the BREWER, BRIDGER, Capt. James DAVIS, EXUM, GODWIN, LAWRENCE, NEWMAN, and PITT families. The court records cover the Isle of Wight Book A; Will and Deed Book I, 1662-1686; Deed Book I, 1688-1704; land grants spanning 1628 to 1705; Quit Rent, 1704; and a roster of county officers for Isle of Wight and surrounding counties. There is a $67.00 4th class shipping charge, or add $3.00 for 1st class.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England: Volume 2
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F.
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page 204
FRISTON, a parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (S.E.) from Saxmundham, containing 452 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage united to that of Snape, in the arch deaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5, and endowed with £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England: Volume 4
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page 20
SAXMUNDHAM, a market town and parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE, county of SUFFOLK, 20 miles (N.E. by N.) from Ipswich, and 89 (N.E.) from London, containing 989 inhabitants. This town, supposed to be of Saxon origin, is situated in a valley, near a small stream which flows on the eastern side into the Alde, on the high road to London: it consists chiefly of one street running north and south, of modern and newly fronted houses, and is of neat and respectable appearance: the inhabitants are plentifully supplied with water from springs: there is an assembly room, in which balls and concerts are occasionally held. The only branch of business is that in malt. The market is on Thursday, and is noted for corn, which is shipped in large quantities from Snape and Iken wharfs for London. Fairs are on Whit-Tuesday, and on the first Thursday in October,
for toys, &c. The living is a discharged rectory, in the arch deaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £8. 15. 10., and in the patronage of Dudley Long North, Esq. The church, a neat edifice embosomed in trees, and standing a little southward of the town, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and has recently undergone a thorough repair, one hundred and eighty sittings having been added, of which ninety are free; towards defraying the expense the Incorporated Society for the building and enlargement of churches and chapels contributed £75: it contains several monuments. There is a place of worship for Independents. William Corbold gave a rent-charge of £5 for the instruction of four poor children.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England: Volume 4
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page 100
SNAPE, a parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE, county of SUFFOLK, 23/4 miles (S. by E.) from Saxmundham,[p.100] containing 518 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, consolidated with that of Friston, in the arch deaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5. 5. 71/2., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of R. W. H. H. Vyse, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist; the front is hexagonal and much enriched in the later English style. The parish is bounded on the south by the river Alde, or Orr, which is crossed by a bridge, where there is a quay for shipping corn, &c. A society of Benedictine monks from the abbey of St. John at Colchester settled here in 1155, and in 1400 was exempted from all subjection to that house, and raised into a distinct priory; it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and at its suppression, in 1524, was granted to Wolsey towards the endowment of his intended colleges, when its revenue was valued at £99. 1. 11.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England: Volume 4
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page 100
SNAPE, a township in the parish of WELL, eastern division of the
wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of YORK, 31/4 miles (S.) from Bedale, containing 689 inhabitants, who are principally employed in wool-combing for the worsted-spinners in this part of the county. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. An almshouse for eight aged persons, and free schools for children of each sex, have been founded and liberally endowed by the Nevilles.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England: Volume 4
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page 227
Within the limits of the county were comprised the Roman stations Ad Ansam, at Stratford, on the border of Essex; Cambretonium, at Brettenham, or Icklingham; Garianonum, at Burgh Castle (though some fix it at Caistor, near Yarmouth); and Sitomagus, probably at Woolpit. Remains of Roman military works exist at Burgh Castle, Brettenham, Icklingham, Stow-Langtoft, and Stratford, on the banks of the Stour. Numerous domestic and sepulchral relics of that people have also been dug up in different places, such as pavements, coins, medals, urns, rings, &c. That stupendous work of human labor, called the Devil's Ditch, on Newmarket heath, is supposed to have served as the line of demarcation between the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia. On a hill called Eye Cliff, and several others situated in its vicinity, near Southwold, are some earthworks, supposed to have constituted a Danish camp; and near Barnham, on the borders of the Little Ouse, is a range of eleven tumuli, on a spot supposed to have been the scene of one of the conflicts between the Danes, under Inguar, and the forces of Edmund, King of East Anglia: others occur in different places, the most remarkable group of them being that called the Seven Hills, at Fornham St. Geneveve, near Bury. The number of religious houses, of all denominations, was about fifty-nine, including four Alien priories. There are remains, more or less extensive, of the abbeys of Burry St. Edmund's and Leiston; of the priories of Blythburgh, Butley, Clare, Herringfleet, Ipswich, Mendham, and Sudbury; and of the nunneries of Bungay and Redingfield. Some of the most remarkable churches are those of Alderton, Ashfield, and Barnham, all which are now in ruins; of Beccles, which is remarkable for its noble steeple; Blythburgh; St. Mary, and St. James, at Bury; Buxlow, in ruins; Creeting All Saints, Corton, Dunwich, Flixton, and Fordley, all in ruins; Framlingham; Haslewood, in ruins; St. Lawrence, St. Mary at Quay, and St. Mildred at Ipswich, part of the latter of which has been converted into a town hall; Lavenham, the most beautiful in the county; Lowestoft; Sibton; Stow-Langtoft; and Thurlston, now used as a barn: in addition to these, may be enumerated the churches of Eye, Hoxne, Laxfield, Long Melford, Southwold, Bungay St. Mary (partly in ruins), Covehithe, Walberswick (in ruins), Kessingland, Walton, &c. The fonts in the following churches are worthy of notice for their antiquity, or other peculiarities, viz., those of Blythburgh, Clare, Framlingham, Hawstead, Hengrave, St. Peter's (Ipswich), Letheringham, Lowestoft, Melton, One-House, Orford, Snape, Ufford, and Worlingworth. The remains of ancient fortresses are chiefly those of the castles of Bungay, Clare, Framlingham, Haughley, Lidgate, Mettingham, Orford, and Wingfield. Ancient mansions are seen in different parts of the county; the most remarkable is Hengrave Hall. There are many elegant seats, among the most distinguished of which is Euston Park, the property and residence of the Duke of Grafton; and Heveningham Hall, the seat of Lord Huntingfield. Suffolk gives the title of earl to the family of Howard.
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Preface
page 416
WELL, a parish in the eastern division of the wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Snape and Well, and containing 1059 inhabitants, of which number, 370 are in the township of Well, 41/2 miles (S.) from Bedale. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the arch deaconry of Richmond and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £8. 13. 7., endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of[p.416] Charles Chaplin, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. James, contains several monuments of the lords of Snape. This place derived its name from a celebrated well, dedicated to St. Michael, which, at all times of the year, is supplied with water by a spring issuing from a rock. An hospital, in honour of St. Michael the Archangel, for a master, two priests, and twenty-four poor brethren and sisters, was founded here, in 1342, by Sir Ralph de Neville, Lord of Middleham, which at the dissolution had a revenue of £42. 12. 3. Thomas, Earl of Exeter, in 1605, established a charity, called Neville's workhouse, for the maintenance of a master and mistress and twelve poor girls, the latter of whom are also educated. A school for boys, and another for girls, were founded here, and two others at Snape, in 1788, and are supported from these funds, which amount to about £100 per annum.
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