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A History of the County of Hampshire
… 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In the reign of his youngest son we hear 3 of a fine paid … were wont to sue with the city of Winchester at the sheriff's tourn and pay their share with the citizens 37 till Peter des …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… provides, are that fourteen of the burgesses paid 25 s. to the abbey of Romsey, 9 that the abbey of Wherwell held … throughout the reign of Henry II and Richard I it was the sheriff, or a farmer under him, who rendered the farm, and in … the borough was simply a part of the county which the sheriff farmed. The difficulties of Hubert Walter and of King …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Archbishop of Canterbury, who to the Bishop of Salisbury's claim that Windsor Castle was in his diocese successfully … 11267, when David, King of Scotland, came here as Henry's guest. King David swore allegiance to the Empress Maud as … the castle-guard rents were often collected by the sheriff and handed by him to the constable. 504 A court for …
Survey of London Monograph
… now one of the six heralds in ordinary. Badge: Edward III's (Edward of Windsor) sun-burst, that is, golden sunrays … VI. Windsor, temp. Hen. VI. ? Lancaster, c. 1442. Lant's statements that 'Robert Ashwell' was Antelope, Rouge Croix … Whorwood (d. 1704), of Holton, Oxfordshire, sometime High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, who was illegitimate s. of Brome …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the … and Ann, daughters of John Johnson of Richmond Hall, High Sheriff of Cambs. and Hunts., and it was they who erected the … was living there in 1641. 92 He was a J.P. and became High Sheriff in 1681. He must have succeeded to some of his …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… electricity transmission line from Peterborough to King's Lynn. In 1839, out of a total of 2,771 acres of land in the … Sea in Newton. 27 Sir John Colvile IV, his eldest son, was sheriff in 1459 and died ten years later. 28 His eldest … by William, his second son, who was a devoted Royalist and sheriff in 1660. He died without surviving issue, and was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Tydd, has been known since the 17th century as Lady Nunn's Old Eau, from the wife of a 14th-century Tydd landowner. 1 … it possesses nearly a score of variants. 'St. Mary's Tyd', which constantly recurs, might perhaps account for … who in 1601 married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Osborne, Sheriff of London and Lord Mayor in 1583. In 1613 Welby …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when the flow of water was improved by cutting Moreton's Leam. Bishop West spent £200 on a new sluice, which was … the Nene for 7 miles downstream from Wisbech to Peter's Point. This would have given a 5-foot fall, but the … and was M.P. for South Cambridgeshire from 1865 and Sheriff of London in 1871. 40 He was Mayor of Wisbech from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 'WISBECH ANO DOM 1662. 1c. GM'. 66 Several tradesmen's tokens of this period are preserved in the Museum. 67 The … sphere of influence covers the Isle-Cambridge (13.3), King's Lynn (15.6), and Peterborough (13.7), and of the country as … haberdasher (1668). Corp. Rec. iv, 165, 170. High Sheriff of Cambs. 1760. Created Knight Bachelor, 24 Jan. 1761 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1181 and 1204, were presumably his descendants. 54 William's son Henry 55 had apparently succeeded by 1210, 56 and was … Sir Richard, the two last-named both holding the office of sheriff. Sir Richard (d. 1540) was succeeded by his son … son Thomas (knighted 1573) was knight of the shire and sheriff, and as Treasurer-at-War in the Low Countries …