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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Blofield Hundred BLOFIELD HUNDRED. The Crown had the lordship of this hundred, and King Henry I. directed his writ to Ralph … Basset, and Aubrey de Ver, to the sheriffs and barons of Norfolk, certifying his grant to Eborard Bishop of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Blofield Hundred Strumpshaw STRUMPSHAW. At the survey Godric, as steward for the Conqueror, had the care of a lordship, of which 2 freemen were deprived, who held it … I. A mandate was granted, in the 9th of Henry III. to the sheriff of Norfolk, to deliver to Sir John de Wanton all the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Thorp, by Norwich THORP, BY NORWICH, Called Torp in the survey. Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury was lord of it in the reign of the Confessor, in his own right, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bloxham hundred THE HUNDRED OF BLOXHAM In 1841, before the addition of … de St. Amand. 22 The hundred was briefly taken into the sheriff's hands in 1267 propter defectum ballivorum. 23 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Bludworth-Brakell Bludworth, Charles y.s. Thomas, of London, equitis. Christ Church, matric. 13 Dec., 1682, … student of Middle Temple 1628, royalist colonel, killed at the siege of Lyme Regis April, 1644, buried at Holcombe Rogus … 1709, aged 15; B.A. 1713, of Dunton Hall, co. Lincoln, sheriff 1723, a student of Middle Temple 1713, assumed the …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Blundeston Blundeston. There are two manors herethose of Blundeston Hall, and Gonville's. The former was held by a family which took their name from … Harbord Steward, Esq., of Stoke Park, near Ipswich, High Sheriff for Suffolk in 1822, by whom he has an only son, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Bolston BONVILSTON, otherwise BOLSTON, a parish, in the union of Cardiff, hundred of DinasPowys, county of Glamorgan, South … to have been appointed by the lord, who also appointed a sheriff of the borough, who held his office for life. The …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 1 From the Romans to the Conquest BOOK I. Containing the History. CHAP. I. History of London from the earliest accounts of it under the Romans, … and administration of justice. He instituted the office of sheriff, appointed that most equitable mode of trial by …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 10 James I CHAP. X. During the reign of James I. By the extinction of the direct line of the English royal family with …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 11 Charles I CHAP. XI. From the accession of Charles I. to the commencement of the civil war between him and the parliament. 1625. On the …