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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… limestone. The priory was founded c. 1175 by Maurice Fitz-Geoffrey for Austin canons. The remaining part of the church …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 58 An idea persisted that the house belonged to the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1380), Thomas's alleged father, 59 but … RG 11/1512. O.R.O., D.V. VIII/275 (map); X/23 (schedule); I/16 (forms). Below, Educ. For conveyances before 1587 see … houses see Boro. Mun. 100, ff. 5, 12-15. O.R.O., TG VII/i/1; Bodl. Oxon. Rolls 103; Hensington map (1750). O.R.O., TG …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 66 Henry VIII made several later visits but Elizabeth I, imprisoned there in 1554-5, returned only four times as … century and early 17th indicates renewed prosperity. James I and Charles I stayed regularly at Woodstock and the town … 84 The repeated allegation that Woodstock was the home of Geoffrey Chaucer is unfounded. 85 Distinguished natives …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… chronicles of Wyrksop are not exact in this descent, which I suppose misled Mr. Robert Glover in the draught of that … Maud, the sister and coheir of Richard Fitz-John Fitz-Geoffrey, the justice of Ireland, who was afterwards married … elaborate. Of the present state of things here, I shall therefore take a cursorary review, after Leland and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to William de Munfitchet and thereafter the … who conveyed it in 1336 to John Rokell. 35 It was held by Geoffrey Rokell (d. 1467) and then by John Pooley (d. 1487) … Church Hall manor after the Dissolution. 43 V.C.H. Essex, i. 517; The Ancestor, i. 122, 125. Sanders, Eng. Baronies, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Edward III., when Alice, sister and sole heiress of Sir Geoffrey Worsley, conveyed it by marriage to Sir John Massey, … in the Masseys three generations, when the heiress of Sir Geoffrey Massey married into the Stanley family; and the … its introduction by the Flemings in the reign of Henry I., was, on the petition of the inhabitants of Norwich, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… supposed to have become forfeited in the reign of Edward I. by the act for the dissolution of chantries, James I., in 1622, on the petition of the inhabitants, confirmed … containing 718 inhabitants. In the reign of Edward I., Geoffrey de Neville had a grant of free warren here. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and White; the Begbroke balls are Boat, Perry, Walter Geoffrey, and William of Bladon. Tenants and taxpayers … Hill Farm. 14 Above, Intro. Dom. of Incl. ed. Leadam, i. 386. P.R.O., C 142/338, no. 40. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 19, … Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii. 855. Dom. of Incl. ed. Leadam, i. 386-7. P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/2924, mm. 10-11; Valor Eccl. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. 1089) was succeeded by his sons Roger (d. by 1112) and Geoffrey (d. by 1120). By the mid 12th century Yarnton, with … Early Charters of Thames Valley, p. 138; Eynsham Cart. i. p. 22. V.C.H. Oxon. i. 403, 405. Reg. Antiquiss. i (L.R.S. xxvii), 5, 7, 193, …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… kt., Thomas Fitz William, kt., John Babyngton, kt., Geoffrey Symyon, clerk, William Skelton, clerk, Thomas … Flaynburgh, and Flyxton. William Holme de Tikhill, yoman Geoffrey Birkes and Constancia his wife Manor of Stansall and …