The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

138 The English Ancestry of
of Park Hall,* and that in Wrabness, of "Dembole's" or
Denball's, as it is more frequently written.!
After a careful study of the maps of Tendring Hundred,
found in the histories by Morant, Wright and others, which
agree very closely in detail, and of the language of the Will
which describes the boundaries of this property, I feel con-
fident that we can fix the location of this estate almost
exactly.
The highway which leads westward from Harwich through
Ramsey crosses Ramsey Bridge and passes through the west-
ern portion of the Parish, there called " Ramsey Street." It
then divides, and one branch turns south and south-westerly,
passing Ramsey Hall,— at the time we are considering held
by John Herde,— and continues through Great Oakley and
Little Bentley westward. The other branch turns directly
to the north for a short distance, passing Roydon Hall, the
manor of the Lucases,^ and then westward through Wrab-
ness and Bradfield, with Wix on the south. Edward's estate
must have bordered on the highway just at the point where,
after turning northward, it bends again to the west. The
boundary line of the two Parishes evidently ran through this
estate, for his Will shows that it was necessary that his
daughter should own the Wrabness land in conjunction with
that in Wix, "without the which piteles [parcels] she cold not
a had a waie too an part of the land lieing in Wix." On the
west of this was the farm called Spennele's ; the Wrabness
land extended to the " hoye waie leading from Spenneles to
* See p. 109, supra. f See p. 76, supra. % See p. 11, supra.