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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, and in 1086 … 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 … as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … 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
… S.W.) Woolhope 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 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western 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
… 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, … 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
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary … 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
… 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 … into England, was appointed constable, being also made sheriff of the county. He extended the buildings of the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Sessions: 1618 William Lyes. Ref.110 BA1/1/21/79 (1618) To the right honourable Sir John Crooke knight one of the Kinges majesties justices of assizes and gayle deliverye for the countye of Worcester. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1690s The poor inhabitants of the tything of Whitstones. Ref.110 BA1/1/167/14 (1693) To the worshipfull …