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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1797. 9 At that date it contained a farm-house, a butcher's shop, two or three cottages, and the remains of Prescote … Upper Prescote at White Barn, by the bend in the Appletree lane; 11 the farm buildings there are modern. The total … inhabited by five priests, 17 near which the saint's body was rediscovered. South of the manor-house, between …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… had two plough-lands in Prescott. 26 In 1535 the abbey's income from the manor was received by the cellarer. 27 In … by Henry Dobbins at his death in 1597, and passed to Henry's son Henry, 32 who was in turn succeeded by his son Henry in … before passing to Sir Humphrey Tracy of Stanway, Sir John's third cousin, 40 in 1638. 41 It was presumably a separate …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… church and its lands acquired the name Preshute ('priest's cell'). The name, not recorded until 1186, may have been … of Elcot tithing east of Blowhorn Street and Rawlingswell Lane was 'new land' of Marlborough before 1252, 9 and was … Coll. Natural Hist. Soc. xcix. 76. Described by Stephen Duck, a protege of the countess, in Description of a Journey …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… line to Prestbury Road and from there it followed Wyman's brook. 4 Hyde brook, rising on the east side of the parish, … Shaw Green, by the moated site of the Bishop of Hereford's manor-house, may mark an early settlement, and it was there … included the Burgage and, by the 16th century, Bowbridge Lane. 31 On the north side of Deep Street the older houses …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in the year 822, to Wlfred, archbishop of Canterbury, L. S. M. that is, libere sicut Middleton, endowed with the same … among the rest of the possessions of it, into the king's hands, where they did not remain long, for the king settled … Waller, esq. is the present lessee of it. The shyreway or lane, called Portway, otherwise Porters, otherwise …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… She died a widow in the 41st year of king Edward III. S.p.by either of her husbands, and indeed without any heirs, … that house anno 30 Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, and was the next year granted, with the scite of the … name, alienated it, at the latter end of king Charles I.'s reign, to Mr. Spence, of Bauckham, in Sussex, in whose …
A History of the County of Warwick
… by a road known in the 17th and 18th centuries as Rushwood Lane. 6 From the more westerly of the two another road leads … of Meulan, in 1086, 19 but Hugh held of the count Britnod's 5 hides, 20 which subsequently formed the manor of Beaudesert 21 (q.v.). Turbern's portion is said to have passed from the count to his …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Godsfield and Alresford. On the west at the corner of a lane which runs north-west by the Manor Farm to Preston … probably by means of a certain sum over from Queen Mary's largess given on her bridal visit to the college, 'the chyldren's hows at Mouseberie ( sic) for their comfort in tyme of …
A History of the County of Northampton
… survey this appears as 1 hide 1 virgate of King David's fee and a hide of the fee of Olney, held by Walter fitz Winemar. 5 King David's fee passed to the Hastings family as part of the honor of … to be assured by an Act of Parliament. 42 The family of Lane held property in Preston at this time and in 1569 Jasper …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of its southern boundary following a small brook and the lane that crosses the Stour. In 1931 it was transferred from … 14 and it was the subject of a few lines in Richard Jago's poem Edgehill. 15 In 1747 the new owner said it was small … of the 16th century is reputed to have been a priest's house, and a 17thcentury framed cottage next to it retains …