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A History of the County of Gloucester
… related above Beachley manor then descended in the Lewis family until c. 1786 when it was acquired by Samuel Jenkins … The name is evidently a corruption of ap Adam and the family had presumably occupied a house there for a time in … c. 1540 and 1638 the lessees were members of the Hopkins family. 42 The Badams Court property still belonged to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… English style. The living is in the gift of the Tollemache family. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for 70, … style, and contains several old monuments of the Fowler family, one to Sir Henry Chester, K.B., and an ancient …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the burial-place of the Baynards, of Cliff, of which family it has several memorials. Tingewick (St. Mary) … to which the manor had previously been given by the family of Finmore. The living is a rectory, valued in the … of a fortress or a residence; and since the year 1776, the family of Arundel have erected the magnificent mansion called …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… manor houses of the village, which passed to the Lovell family in the mid 13th century. In 1304 John Lovell obtained …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. In the church are handsome memorials to the Buxton family, proprietors of the parish. Tocketts TOCKETTS, a … belonged to the Earl of Morton; it afterwards came to the family of de Brus, and was more recently held by the Thwengs, … and messuages called " Green Tockholes in Livesey;" the family of Holinshed more recently held the lordship, and on …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… plant of tropical America, and a member of the Nightshade family. The nitrogenous compound, nicotine, is found both in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Fox mere," belonged in the reign of Edward III. to the family of Radcliffe, a branch from Radcliffe Tower, which … purposes. Toft Hall is the ancient seat of the Leycester family, of whom Ralph Gerard Leycester, Esq., is the present … books at 7. 18. 6., and in the gift of the Townshend family: the great tithes have been commuted for 155, and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… was for many generations the residence of the family of the Mackays, from whom the surrounding district, to … were granted by the Macdonalds to two brothers of the family of the Mc Leans, who, during a visit which they paid … in reward of their eminent services, to the Argyll family, of whom the present Duke sold the lands of Torosay …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and two cartouches with painted arms of the Gardner family. ConditionGood. b(4). The Cage, at the N.W. corner of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in N.E. corner, slab with inscription to the Hall family; probably 18th century. Piscina: In E. wall of N. … and, reset at the centre, the heraldic ape of the Martyn family. The doorway within the porch has a four-centred head …