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A History of the County of Somerset
… lords of Bridgwater held a court with view of frankpledge and received perquisites both from the borough and from … thirds of the lordship claimed gallows, tumbrel, pillory, waifs and strays, wrecks of the sea, the assize of bread and of ale, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Broadwater, Clapham, Durrington, Findon, Heene, Lancing, and Sompting. Most of those places were listed as part of it in 1086, but Clapham and Findon were then said to be part of Steyning hundred, 2 and were first recorded in Brightford in the mid 13th …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Fairford, Hatherop, Kempsford, Lechlade, Quenington, and Southrop (then, like the Eastleaches, called Leach), and was assessed at a total of 102 hides and 4 yardlands. 1 Another Domesday hundred, called Bibury, …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Brimpsfield village, the primary settlement of a manor and ecclesiastical parish which originally included Cranham to the west, was once the site of a castle and a priory. The parish, which also included part of Birdlip … to pecuniary rights in cases arising from the hue and to strays. 240 A reference to Brimpsfield hundred in 1382 241 …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… 5 miles (8 km) south of the former market town of Burford, and 7 miles (12 km) south-west of Witney. The parish's name … was the primary focus of the late 11th-century estate, and the village retains a medieval parish church of some size and importance, adjoining an abandoned medieval manorial …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… known for its association with the designer, writer, and socialist William Morris (d. 1896), Kelmscott 6 remains a small and secluded hamlet, sharing much in common with its more … The village has always been predominantly agricultural, and contains several high-quality 17th- and 18th-century …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… is a small rural parish 18 km NNW of Gloucester and 5 km south-east of Ledbury (Herefs.). Situated at the … ancient parish was bordered by Herefordshire to the north and west and Worcestershire to the east. Before disafforestation in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably means 'woodland clearing of the fort guardian', and much of Broseley remained wooded in the Middle Ages. 12 … establish a title to a court leet with the right to take waifs, strays, and felons' goods. 54 In 1678 his son Samuel obtained …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the same name, has interlocking boundaries with Pitcombe and Shepton Montague to the west and south 92 and dependent … courts leet and view of frankpledge, goods and chattels, waifs and strays, and felons' and fugitives' goods, but not deodands. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… divisions of the county, Bullingdon was one of the larger and was the most central. Its origin has been discussed … were originally dictated in part by the county boundary and by natural features. The hundred reached on the east to … crown; judgement of thieves taken with the mainour and all waifs. He also had the profits from measures used in the …