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A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 … of exclusive dealing with tradesmen and intimidation of tenants, 17 which included evicting from Begbroke House the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from the time of the foundation of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after … occurred in 1564 between Conway's widow Anne and the tenants of the other onethird of the Grange, about payment of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… labour-services for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted of eight oxen …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. 6 Unlike other estates of the great thegn the manor of Woolaston probably never … manor was held by members of the Derneford family as under-tenants. About 1255 Roger de Derneford was given licence for …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … AND NATIONAL EVENTS The Hody family originated as unfree tenants at Woolavington, and included Sir John Hody (d. …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … for the manor of Woolwich. The inhabitants of Woolwich, as tenants of the Royal manor, enjoy the same privileges as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the … the suit of Nicholas de Moels of Over Worton and two other tenants in serjeanty. 22 By the 1270s the principal …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix … Wick was the name of a manor on which there were customary tenants 30 and, like its neighbours Wick (later Clench) in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … the city. On this occasion, Bishop Wulstan armed his tenants, and retiring into the castle with the citizens and …