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A History of the County of Oxford
… 13th-century surnames 67 such as Parker, Porter, Franklin, Despenser, and Marshall; other names were derived from the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was erected in 1763, at the expense of Lord le Despenser, and is an elegant structure in the Grecian style, … of considerable beauty to the memory of Sarah, Baroness le Despenser, with many memorials of the Dashwood family and … Whitehead, the poet, which he had bequeathed to Lord le Despenser. The church occupies an eminence finely clothed …