hessland

Updated: August 13, 2026

At the same court, too, William Hessland was amerced for appropriating the few trumpery chattels of Walter Cokstone, a villein belonging to the lord. Another wretched pair a man and his wife had deliberately cleared a crop of oats off an acre and a half of land, and stacked it in their own barn.

Augustus Jessopp - The Coming of the Friars