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A History of the County of Somerset
… the same name, has interlocking boundaries with Pitcombe and Shepton Montague to the west and south 92 and dependent chapelries of Brewham to the east and Pitcombe …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… two car. It still continueth a member of Maunsfeld, and consists of ancient demesne copyholders of that manor, and is within that parish, and since the forest got the use …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BULBRIDGE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, union of Wilton, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. divisions of Wilts, of a mile (S.) from … wills and grant administrations, and to hold a court of copyhold for the manor, in which the custom of …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… defences were very remarkable. Encircled by a broad and rapid river, which left a narrow isthmus only to defend, … in succession, the stronghold of the Roman, the Saxon, and the Norman. Coins, and other relics of their arts, attest … and his predecessors, always claimed to hold it as their copyhold, but have not been admitted thereto successively. 22 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… BURBAGE Burbage parish 23 lies south of Savernake forest and at the east end of the Vale of Pewsey. It contains Burbage village, 9 km. SSE. of Marlborough, and Durley village, hamlets called Ram Alley and Stibb Green, … c. 600 a., and 9 yardlands were held freely. Most of the copyhold land was in the open fields. Most of the demesne of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burntwood Manors, local government and public services MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. There was a manor of PIPE by 1135, the … a. in Burntwood and Hammerwich where the freeholders and copyholders of Longdon, Burntwood, Hammerwich, Ashmore Brook, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burslem Buildings, manors and estates BURSLEM The borough of Burslem consisted by 1910 of the townships of Burslem 1 and Sneyd, Cobridge (formerly the vill of Rushton Grange), … Board. 392 James Tellwright ('Telryche') held a house and copyhold estate at Sneyd within the manor of Tunstall in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burslem Local government, economic history and social life Local Government and Public Services Burslem, though anciently part of the … Rushton 138 and Sneyd. 139 Most of the land in Burslem was copyhold until the enfranchisement of much of Tunstall manor …
A History of the County of Stafford
… there was land at Burton for 2 ploughteams in demesne, and a further 2 ploughteams were worked by 9 villani. There were 16 a. of meadow, and woodland measured 1/2 league in both length and breadth. … days a year and do some carting, even though they held by copyhold tenure. 5 As late as 1597 tenants in all parts of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… had jurisdiction over the abbey's tenants in Burton itself and in the outlying settlements of Branston, Horninglow, Stapenhill, Stretton, and Winshill, all of which were tithings with their own … 13 Court business declined from the mid 17th century as copyhold tenure was replaced by leasehold, 14 and the courts …