1 Jan 1587 Jahr - manor house

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To describe a place as a manor was immediately to give it a certain status, and people might hesitate before doing that. 1560 <i> John Cotes doth depose that he knowithe one hall neare unto Ledes … but whether it be a mannor or not he knowyth not </i> (Th9/9). The manor house was a ‘capital messuage’, that is the large and important house where the lord of the manor lived and where much of the business of the manor was carried on. It was a term that took a long time to stabilise: 1443 <i> that Jonett my wife have my chefe maner place </i>, Sheriff Hutton (SS30/89); 1448 <i> Grant by John Gomersall to … his son … of his cheyf plase or Hedplase </i>, Gomersal (YRS83/99); 1532 <i> my maner plase or hedhouse </i>, Car Colston (SS106/26); 1533 <i> the maner place of Calton called Calton Hall </i> (DD203). The continuing use of such aliases through Elizabeth’s reign is a reflection of how unsure people were about the ‘correct usage’: 1564 <i> lyenge on the east syde of the hall and chappell of the scyte of the manor, or manor-place, or manor house of Manstone </i>(YRS50/113); 1566 <i> all that their manor or haule place called Baihalle </i>, Huddersfield (DD/R/4/3); 1587 <i> one capital mesuage or mansyon place callid Castelhall </i>, Mirfield (YDK13).

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