[219b] “Sac” means the power to hear causes, levy fines, &c.; “soc” is the district over which he had this power. “Mansion,” according to Bracton, is a dwelling-House consisting of one or more tenements.
[220a] “Britannia,” p. 742. His name, as “Terrius de Bevra,” (Bevere, or Bever-lee in Holderness), he holding the Seigniory of that country, appears among the “Milites Flandriæ” in the rolls of Ban and Arriere Ban, in the time of Philip Augustus. To show that he was of a somewhat overbearing spirit, it is related of him, that the Conqueror, having bestowed upon him the lordship of Holderness, he was not content with that, but claimed all the land held by the church of St. John (now the Minster) at Beverley, with which it had been endowed by the King.
[220b] “Linc. N. & Q.,” vol. ii., pp. 10 and 108.
[220c] “Ibid.,” pp. 141, 142.
[220d] “Ibid.,” p. 228.
[221a] “Linc. N. & Q.,” vol. iii., pp. 245, 246.
[221b] “Ibid.,” p. 150. The above Burgavenny should be Abergavenny, in South Wales, but both forms were used.
[222] A similar thoroughfare formerly existed through the tower of the old All Saints’ Church at Cambridge, and there is still one through the tower of the church at March.
[223] In the church at Walton-on-Thames there is preserved in the vestry, a scold’s bridle: two flat steel bands, which go over the head, face, and round the nose, with a flat piece going into the mouth and fixing the tongue. It locks at the back of the head. It bears this inscription:—
Chester presents Walton with a bridle
To curb women’s tongues that be idle;