King Edward VIIas a sportsman . ssential was that the new country home should notbe too near to Windsor, and after long considerationin the year 1861 the Prince selected Sandringham,a choice which, far from ever repenting, experienceproved to have been eminently judicious, for theRoyal master of the domain could not have been bettersuited. I have diligently examined ancient histories ofNorfolk with a view to obtaining all available infor-mation about Sandringham from the days of its earliestrecorded history ; but search has not revealed a greatdeal which I did not put into an article written f
King Edward VIIas a sportsman . ssential was that the new country home should notbe too near to Windsor, and after long considerationin the year 1861 the Prince selected Sandringham,a choice which, far from ever repenting, experienceproved to have been eminently judicious, for theRoyal master of the domain could not have been bettersuited. I have diligently examined ancient histories ofNorfolk with a view to obtaining all available infor-mation about Sandringham from the days of its earliestrecorded history ; but search has not revealed a greatdeal which I did not put into an article written forthe Badminton Magazine in the year 1906, when, byHis Majestys gracious permission, I paid my firstvisit, and I am constrained therefore to draw uponthat description, with certain additions since gleaned. Not very much seems to be known of the earlyhistory of Sandringham—Sand-Dersingham, as it iscalled in Domesday Book. A freeman named Tost en-joyed the place under Herold [jzV], afterwards King SANDRINGHAM HOUSE (West Front). Sandringham of England, it is recorded. But he was ejected at theConquest, and the land in the neighbourhood bestowedupon Richard Fitz Corbon, a Norman knight, whosename by degrees came to be spelt Curzon—that isto say, the name of his descendants is thus knight who came over with the Con-queror, evidently determined not to come in vain,was one Peter de Valoins, who settled down in theneighbourhood of Sandringham. To him belonged,according to the old historian, two carucates indemean, thirty villains, six borderers with seven servi,a carucate and a half and eighteen acres of meadow,a mill, a fishery, a salt work, &c., with 146 carucate, it may be explained for the benefit ofthose unacquainted with the term, was as much landas could be tilled with one plough with its team ofeight oxen in a year. This has been estimated at180 acres : sixty for fallow, sixty for spring corn, andsixty for winter corn. Peter de Valoins is presentlyd
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