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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… V., who, with the Lords Grey and Rivers, was beheaded at Pontefract by Richard III. Some of the descendants still …
A History of the County of York
… Lord Darcy, and others of the king's council had fled to Pontefract: Colyns thought their flight encouraged the … insurrection. 79 Darcy himself reported to the king from Pontefract on 13 October that he had told the mayor to look … was necessarily brief. On 18 October Aske left for Pontefract with a small party, and the main body must have …
A History of the County of York
… when he was knighted; he led the city's deputation at the Pontefract meeting of the Pilgrims of Grace, but managed to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… place, before the army of Edward II., to his castle of Pontefract, in the county of York; and which, with baggage …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… resignation of John de Neuthorpe, alias John Stedeman of Pontefract, in the king's nomination by reason of the lands …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Freeston, another Yorkshireman, gave property in Pontefract to maintain an exhibitioner and two scholars. 35 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York, 6 miles (S. by E.) from Pontefract; containing 235 inhabitants. It comprises about …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… Cluniac priory of St. John [the Apostle and Evangelist], Pontefract. in the diocese of York, from its primeval …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… notary public, in the presence of Nicholas Hall, prior of Pontefract, Masters Richard Wetwang, a canon of St. Paul's …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… to the prior and convent of St. John the Evangelist's, Pontefract, in the diocese of York, the parish church of …