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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory … rent collector was regularly offered bribes by would-be tenants. 33 In the later 1920s and early 1930s, following the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of the priory lands at Oakengates in 1543, and in 1547, the … used the priory church as a coach house, and her tenants (presumably after Francis's death) pounded cattle …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Udeburgh WOODBOROUGH (Udeburgh.) In Udeburg the book of Doomsday shows that St. Mary of Sudwell had Sok to Nortwell, seven Bov. ad Geldam. The … will be noted, where the family of Samson the most ancient tenants thereof chiefly resided. Some of these Tayn-lands it …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. The details of the estate held by Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, in 1086 are not recorded. No teams were … was leased to farmers during the 16th century. 10 The tenants on Brictric's estate in 1086 included 16 villani and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Introduction WOODCHESTER The parish of Woodchester, well known as the site of a Roman villa, 1 lies on the west side of the Nailsworth … value of the manor in the 15th and 16th centuries, when tenants also enjoyed valuable rights in the woodland. 9 A …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the bishop of Worcester by King Ethelbald of Mercia. 44 The episcopal …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was separated from its … 1502, when the green was common pasture for the manorial tenants. 87 It covered 6 a. at inclosure. 88 Derisley …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and … three principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently cultivated in three shifts … holding 15 a. for weekwork and other services, and free tenants and molmen owing cash rents. 10 Ditton Valence had …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the parish was regarded as a single township. 96 View of frankpledge was exercised by the lords of the three ancient manors and by the prior of Thetford, who … bread and of ale in 1276. 97 The honor of Richmond's free tenants attended an honorial court in 1334. 98 The only …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON … 58 Archbishop Stigand later held it as lessee or custodian of the abbey, and on his death in 1072 it was taken by …