jan 1, 1560 - graveship

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Some extensive manorial territories were subdivided for convenience into ‘graveships’, each under a ‘grave’ whose entitlement to the office was based on the amount of land that he held. 1550 ‘a messuage ... in the <i>graifshipe</i> of Holme’ (YRS50/71); 1560 <i>one roide of arable land in Thornewell field within the graveship of Allerthorp</i>, Wakefield (Th27/313). In one earlier example the reference may be to the office of ‘grave’: 1460 <i>Thomas Walworth pro le graveship, xijs viijd</i>, Sharow (SS64/365).

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