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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… her god-daughter ( filiola), daughter of Geoffrey de Pontefract. No date. Roll 14 (2). Monday the Vigil of Feast … [3 March]. Lineband (Thomas).To Master Richard Leneband (or Loneband) his houses in the street called "Bradestrate" in … Normandy. A pud moram; see note supra, p. 10. Cirurgious or Surigious. Afterwards spoken of as the "great seld of …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… therein to his aforesaid wife, and to sell the remainder or reversion. Dated London, 8 March, A.D. 1406. Roll 135 … of the Carmelite Friars near Fletestrete. To the master or warden and chaplains of the house of the chantry or … college commonly called "Knollesalmeshows" in the vill of Pontefract in the diocese of York he leaves all his lands and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… no grounds for assuming it to be older than the Conquest or that any part of it occupies the site of defensive … within the lines of defence, instead of the more usual 4 or 5. It also fills a prominent place in the great series of … Clewer is paralleled by the contemporary cases of Corfe, Pontefract, Richard's Castle, Carisbrooke, Tutbury, &c. (see …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 392 are in Womersley township, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from Pontefract. This parish comprises between 5000 and 6000 … Calder Company. The road from Doncaster, by Askerne, to Pontefract, passes through the village. Womersley Park is the … named Shuttleworth, now occupied as a farmhouse. Wonastow, or Weonastow (St. Wonnow) WONASTOW, or Weonastow ( St. …
The Environs of London
… there, in 1420 10. Whether this was another manor, or whether the Hickmans held under the Abbey of Waltham, I am … the inscriptions of which have been since either removed or defaced:Anne, wife of Daniel Thelwall, 1638; Elizabeth, … (collected 15s. 8d.). For two churches at York, and one at Pontefract, demolished in the late civil wars by the violence …
A History of the County of Oxford
… no. 30, which remained part of the inn until 1840 or later, 9 was let separately until sold c. 1886 with nos. … of the inn, 14 and may have been concerned in the design or building of the main ranges. The rebuilding of no. 32 in … (d. 1647), whose son William sold it in 1673 to Stephen Pomfret, master of Woodstock grammar school 1664-76. 70 In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hill, and comprises 4176 acres, of which 563 are common or waste. The soil is various. The lands are watered by two … place is noticed by Leland as giving name to a small beck, or stream, which flowed by it in its course from Panton to … of Staincross, W. riding of York, 5 miles (S. W.) from Pontefract; containing 855 inhabitants. The parish includes …
A History of the County of Northampton
… probably Wootton) constituted the hundred of 'Colentreu' or 'Coltrewestan'. 2 This subordinate hundred is not … in 1551, 8 and they descended to his heirs, the Earls of Pomfret, 9 whose present representative is Lord Hesketh; but …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yielding - Yoxhall Yielding, or Yelden (St. Mary) YIELDING, or Yelden ( St. Mary), a … Huddersfield, Knaresborough, Leeds, Malton, Northallerton, Pontefract, Richmond, Ripon, Sheffield, Thirsk, and … West Riding are held as follows: the Easter sessions at Pontefract; the Midsummer quarter-sessions at Skipton, whence …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… of water, of 2 miles. There were four main gates, or bars, all with projecting barbicans, six postern gates, … may perhaps still have been a crossing of the Foss at or near the Roman one. St. Mary Castlegate, a pre-Conquest … in France and of the larger and once loftier keep at Pontefract. The origin of its present name, first recorded in …