ESSEX

ESSEX. The county. One Swain of Essex was a tenant in chief in co. Huntingdon at the making of Domesday. Henry de Essexia, probably his descendant, was a powerful, but at length an unfortunate baron, temp. Henry 11. See Chronicle of Battel Abbe}, p. 95.

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