William Rogers and William Gilbert, beer tasters of Watford
William Rogers of Elizabethan Watford lost his elder brother when Thomas sailed away to Holland and eventually the new world of America...
This blog is intended to host discussion on knight's fees with their associated manors, as they were in medieval England, and of course the people who inhabited them.
And that may bring forward the manors and/or knight's fee of Watford and those who held them as examples.
The first post, 'The Manors of a Knight's Fee', introduces the fundamentals of landed estates, or manors, and the knight's fees that went with them. Subsequent posts discuss the subject more widely.