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nassus [ME nasse, nesse < AS næs] , ’ness’, headland, promontory (in place-name of Nassoborough hundred). 1120 duo hundred de ~o (Surv. Northants) K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People (1999) p. 100; 1215 quod non permittatis regardum finium infra metas de Nesso Burgo Cl 191b; 1216 pro libertate quam ei concessimus de ~o Burgi deafforestando Pat 165b; 1220 ~us Burgi Fees I 326; 1322 J. de M. ballivus libertatis de ~o Burgi michi retornarunt quod ‥ (Chanc. Misc.) EHR XXXI 601.

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