| 20s: | Twenty shillings or one pound. A shilling equals five pence in decimal. |
| Abbey: | A community of monks or nuns governed by an abbot or abbess. |
| Benifice: | An enclosed Church office yielding an income to its holder. |
| Carucate: | The amount of land that can be ploughed with one plough and eight oxen in one year. |
| Chancellor: | A clergyman acting as the law officer of a bishop. |
| Chapel: | A place of christian worship. |
| Chapter of Canons: | The collective body of the canons of a cathedral. |
| Chattel: | An item of moveable personal property, such as furniture, domestic animals, etc. |
| Cloister | A covered walk usually around a quadrangle in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade on the inside and wall on the outside. |
| Consecrated: | Made or declared sacred or holy. |
| Crusade: | A military expedition by Christians to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims. |
| Curtilage: | The enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house. |
| Cut: | Name given by the locals to the winterbourne that flows through the village. |
| Dean | The head of a chapter of canons and administrator of a cathedral. |
| Domesday Book: | The record of a survey of the land of England carried out by the commissioners of William I in 1086. |
| Hatchment: | A diamond shaped tablet bearing the Coat of Arms of a dead person. |
| Heriot: | A death duty paid by villeins and free tenants to their Lord, often consisting of the dead man's best beast or chattel. |
| Licensing Tournaments: | To give permission for tournaments. |
| Manor: | The Manor House of a lord and the lands attached to it. |
| Messuage: | A dwelling house together with its outbuildings, curtilage , and the adjacent land appropriated to its use. |
| Monastery: | The residence of a religious community, living in seclusion from secular society and bound by religious vows. |
| Nomina Villarum: | A list made of all cities, boroughs and townships, and the lords of them, for King Edward III in 1316. |
| Patera: | A round flat ornament in bas-relief in freizes etc.-often applied loosely to rosettes and other flat ornaments (archit.) |
| Pin Money: | An allowance by a husband to his wife for personal expenditure. |
| Priory: | A religious house governed by a prior, sometimes being subordinate to an abbey. |
| Standard: | A large tapering flag ending in two points, originally bourne by a sovereign or high ranking noble. |
| Tithe: | A tenth part of agricultural produce, personal income or profits contributed as a tax for the support of the church or clergy. |
| Tithe Barn: | A large barn where the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored. |
| Tournament: | A martial sport or contest in which mounted combatants fought for a prize. |
| Villein: | Worker on a country estate |
| Virgate: | 30 acres of land. |
| Warren: | A franchise permitting one to keep animals, birds or fish in an enclosed space for breeding etc. |
| Winterbourne: | A stream that runs dry in the summer. |