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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear All A quick search of the IHR on-line material reveals 21 cases of the word 'holywater', almost all from the sixteenth century and referring to the water in the stoup or in relation to the parish holy water clerk. Though I have never come across it before (just shows my ignorance), I wonder if these Herefordshire cases refer to land and rents in the specified places (rather than the townships themselves [Massington is a farm, I think, rather than a township]) devoted to the upkeep of the stoups or perhaps towards the payment of the holy water clerk. I'm thinking obviously of a comparison with land whose income was given for the upkeep of lights, images, chantries, etc. and/or their attendant clergy. Could we be told the actual passages and contexts, please? Are they testamentary in the main? Best wishes Graham ****************************************** Dr Graham Jones St John's College (University of Oxford) Oxford OX1 3JP Tel: +(0)1865 280146 (with voice-mail) e-Mail: [log in to unmask] Senior Research Associate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford. Web: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/gjones.html Honorary Visiting Fellow Centre for English Local History University of Leicester. Web: http://www.le.ac.uk/users/grj1 ****************************************** -----Original Message----- From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Briggs Sent: 14 February 2010 17:01 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [M-R] Holywater in place-names medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Another query from the English Place-Name List: "Could anyone suggest a reason for a curious place-name usage found in documents at the time of the Reformation? In certain documents written between 1523 and 1547, several townships surrounding Bromyard and Ledbury in Herefordshire are fairly consistently cited with the affix "Holywater" or "Halywater", usually - but not always -- with the main name in the possessive, e.g. "Winslow is Holywatir" (= "Winslow's Holywater"). They are "Linton Holywater", "Norton Holywater" and "Winslow Holywater." (near Bromyard), and "Leadon Holywater.", "Massington Holywater." and Wellington Holywater." (near Ledbury). Also, in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 , the tithes of "le Holywater" are to go to Bromyard. The usage has not been found before or after this period, and the documents were created at different times and by different persons during the reign of Henry VIII. Both Bromyard and Ledbury were collegiate churches, and Bromyard certainly, and Ledbury possibly, were Anglo-Saxon minsters. The named places were townships in Bromyard and Ledbury parishes." John Briggs ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html