BELLHOUSE

BELLHOUSE. A-Sax. M-Ms, a mansion. It was a mark of dignity to be possessed of a bell. In the reign of Athelstau every ceorle or freeman who owned fi'e hides of land, a church, a kitchen, and a hell-Jwnse took rank as a Thane. De Belhus and De la Belhuse are in H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.