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Dear John,
A simple 'thank you' for joining us and clarifying things so nicely
(especially regarding such an interesting and complicated matter).
May I take this opportunity to remind list members how useful it is
when, if someone has a query or problem, that person him/herself
posts it to the list. Too often, when members (with the best possible
intentions) pass along to the list matters originating with non-
members, discussions are not always as productive as they could, and
should, be.
Many thanks to all, George
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George FERZOCO
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On 15 Feb 2010, at 16:31, John Freeman wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Since I was the originator of the question about 'Holywater' in
> place-names on the English Place-Names List, which John Briggs
> kindly posted on this site, perhaps I might make a guest appearance
> to clarify things, as Graham requested?
>
> The documents concerned are not testamentary, but are lay taxation
> documents (subsidies/tenths/fifteenths) in NA Class E179 (published
> in M.A. Faraday, Herefordshire Taxes in the Reign of Henry VIII,
> Hereford 2005) and muster documents in NA class E36 (transcribed by
> Faraday in an unpublished edition). They list, under each hundred,
> the townships under which collection was organized, and under them
> the names of the people assessed and their assessments. For
> example, in the 1539 Musters (E36/31) we have the heading 'The
> Towneship of Masynton Haliwater'. So they are certainly names of
> administrative entities and not, at least directly, descriptions of
> rents/dues etc. I'm sure that the affix has something to do with
> holy water, and not, say, with the names of streams (such as
> Holywell) (cf. the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 (p. 42 of the
> Herefords section of the Record Commission text), where the tithes
> of "le Holywater" are to go to Bromyard) But why should the
> townships be so named, and apparently exclusively in lay documents?
>
> Thanks for all your thoughts so far.
>
> John Freeman
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