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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. The details of the estate held by Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, in 1086 are not recorded. No teams were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Manor and other estates 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 … in 1066 and had passed to the king by 1086 when Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, was the tenant. 46 That estate …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, … 36 It continued thereafter to be held of Bramber rape, 37 the lordship apparently descending with Southwick until the … 64 Thomas (d. 1723) and John (d. 1840) serving as high sheriff. 65 About 1840 the estate comprised 402 a., 66 and in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by … sheriffs of Oxfordshire, 81 and in 1230, for example, the sheriff as custos answered directly in the Exchequer for the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a parish and small village 7 m. S.E. of Hereford. The church and Capler Camp are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. George stands near the middle of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … Woolpit (St. Mary) WOOLPIT ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stow, hundred of Thedwastry, W. division of … to the family of Walter, of whom David Walter was high sheriff of the county, and commanded a regiment of horse …
The Environs of London
… how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … in the record of Doomsday as the property of Haimo the sheriff 6. Henry the Second, about the year 1160, gave the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, … twice each year, near Easter and Michaelmas, at which the sheriff viewed the frankpledge. Probably then, as in the 14th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … into England, was appointed constable, being also made sheriff of the county. He extended the buildings of the …