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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1303. 62 William Tailboys, of a prominent Northumberland family 63 had acquired it by 1315. 64 He was still lord in … those three estates had been consolidated by the Feugeres family, their tenants in demesne, descending until c. 1270 … to Sir George Downing, already owner of Clopton, 138 whose family's estates later included c. 647 a. in the south of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for Giles Earle. He, his nephew Thomas Earle, Thomas's family, and the south front of the house are depicted on a … called Woodlands, was leased to members of the Poole family. Other pasture called Woodlands was leased in 1511. In … boundary stones to be maintained. Members of the Wygold family, bondmen of the manor, were licensed to live outside …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… large, that it might well have been thought one of those family urns, such as Morton describes in his History of … were parcel of the honor of Clare, belonging to the noble family of Clare, earls of Gloucester, of whom they were held by the family of Handlou, afterwards written Hadloe, whose seat here …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… for over two centuries and derived its name from this family. Between 1160 and 1173 the church of Andover was … in the following lines by Pope, who frequently visited the family at Crux Easton: Here, shunning idleness at once and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… with sinners he shut himself up in his house with his family and lived a hermit's life. His house being broken into … two of his children were found dead and the rest of the family in great misery. 37 William Thomas also states that he … a 'manor' in Cubbington was in the hands of the Murcott family. In 1640 Abraham Murcott, senior, Elizabeth his wife, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Bernard died a few months later. 53 It descended in the family, as a certain Bernard Tourney left it to his grandson … (q.v.), which became the chief seat of the Sheppard family, 57 and with which Cublington descended. 58 About the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… House, formerly Ockenden House, the seat of the Burrell family, stands west of the village and is mostly of … manor from William, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, 41 in whose family it had descended until then. 42 The whole manor, thus … 82 but Bolnore evidently passed soon after to the Ward family, by the marriage of Mary Davie with Richard Ward. 83 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish of Cuddesdon, though members of the Archdale family were returned as recusants in 1577. 28 In 1607 Maria … had passed from George Bartlett to John Barston, 86 whose family came to own both the mills. From Richard Barston … a public notary of London, who had married into their family. At this time the manor was valued at 10 a year, the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… if not at Cudworth by his son Geoffrey in 1188. 28 The family continued in occupation in the 13th century. Alan de … (d. 1819) in 1791, 55 and it descended in the Poulett family through successive earls until 1913, when the estate, … a year. 77 During the 18th century it was held by the Dodd family of Charlton Mackrell. The Revd. William Dodd, formerly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1685. 55 When in the 1660's the manor passed from the Bury family to the Bisshopps the manor-house, which in 1665 was … Edmund Cary (d. 1637), a member of a prominent official family, 131 who served at the courts of Elizabeth I, James I, … Bt., of Parham (Suss.), Culham passed to the Bisshopp family. 136 The Bisshopps lived part of the time at Culham, …