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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Elizabethan style, for many ages the seat of the Brewster family, was taken down by the late Sir Thomas Gooch. William … this once princely mansion continued to be a seat of the family till the reign of Charles I., when it was dismantled … a more ancient Hall. Harrock Hall, the seat of the Boulton family, was purchased in 1839 from the Rigbys, of whom, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… chancel and navebelow screen, (7) probably of the Bedell family, c. 1500, inscription lost, man in armour and woman in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Shiffnall, and is the seat and property of the Wrottesley family, whose ancestors have possessed it since the 1st of … Sir Christopher Wren, who purchased the estate from the family of Burgoyne, about the year 1713. It received … in the churchyard is a handsome mausoleum for the Trafford family. Wroxton (All Saints) WROXTON ( All Saints), a parish, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Charlton mines were leased to, or operated by, the Pitts family, whose rights were challenged in 1696 when several …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… married or widowed priest; he was probably related to the family who owned Charlton. 92 One pre-Reformation vicar is … 1600-1900 the parish clerk was a member of the Houlston family. 26 The church of ST. PETER, so named by 1435, 27 is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… fees being paid by richer neighbours. 62 The Cludde family built and supported separate boys' and girls' schools …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1494 and 1504. 29 In the 12th century the Charlton family presumably held the manor of the abbey by … Moors, and the two manors descended together in the Eyton family. 45 Mention of the chapel yard in 1784, and the … preferring not to own ecclesiastical property, sold the family's tithe rent charge to Queen Anne's Bounty for the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… C. C. (Charles Crouch) and the date 1681; the Crouch family owned the manor of Corney Bury from about the …