William Dye
Biography
A late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Norfolk landlord associated with Alethorpe enclosure, foldcourse, and sheep-pasture disputes. The available source does not provide enough information for a fuller secure biography.
Notes / Sources
Do not treat this entry as proof that William Dye held the complete manor in fee simple; the source establishes a direct Alethorpe landlord or manorial-demesne connection.
Research sources:
- David Belcher, “The Chiefest Wealth of Our Country”: Land, Lordship and Rural Society in Norfolk, doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia, discussion of Alethorpe and William Dye, citing A. Hassell Smith and G. M. Baker, The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, volume II, Norfolk Record Society XLIX (1982), pp. 131, 152; and related enclosure evidence. — https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59229/1/Belcher_-__combined_files.pdf
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