The Life of Major-General Worge, Colonel of the 86th Regiment of Foot, and Governor of Senegal, in Africa; With an Account of the Settlements of Seneg

by George Duke

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... married Frances De la Chambre, daughter of John, and grand-child to Sir Laurence De la Chambre, of Radmill, in the same county, Knight, whose ancestors had been seated in Sussex from the time of the Norman Conquest. Richard Worge (for he never called himself Alchorne) is understood to have early shewn an inclination for the iii., contained in the Book of Battell Abbey, the Abbot of Robertsbridge finds two men of arms for Lands in Werthe, &c.; and Symonde de Werthe finds one man of arms (or bowman) for Land in Werthe. This Land lies in the Parishes of Brightling and Burwash, and is at the present day called Great and Little Worge Farms. The late William Hayley guesses it to be the first cultivated Land in the neighbourhood, and, therefore, called Wertb, that is, the Farm. The same gentleman says it is a Manor, and that Dugdale calls it the Lordship of Werthe. The Lands are again mentioned in a very old Deed of Feoffment by Robert Basoke de Sedelescombe to the Abbot and Convent of Battel, of certain Rents out of Lands held by Joselin, son of Thomas de Haremere, and are here called Wercke. In an Indenture of Settlement of the Poyninges Land to the use of Alianore Lady Poyninges, 3. Edward iv., is recited Deeds of Feoffment of Lands in Sussex, &c, to John Werk, Clerk and others. Among the witnesses to an old Deed in the Cartulary of St. Nicholas, Exeter, part of the possessions of Battel Abbey, is the name of Roger de la Wurthe; on the Escheat Rolls, Sir John Wourth, Knight, 4. Edward iv.; and William Worth was Mayor of Winchelsea in 1428. The name has again been varied in Sussex to Woghere, Wowere, and Woghe, (Burgesses in Parliament for East Grinstead), Worger, Werger, Werge, and Worgg; in London Werge, Wearg, and Worge; and in Wales and...

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First published October 7, 2013