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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 677 acres of arable and pasture land; the soil is dry and sandy, and the surface hilly. The Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 95 The tenant in 1086, Wighen, was ancestor of the de la Mare family which held 3 knights' fees in Woodditton until …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Goscelin atte bridge mentioned in 1239. 8 Alan de la Burgate belonged to an extensive family which held lands …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… an ecclesiastical district, in the union of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, partly in the parish of Ashbyde-la-Zouch, hundred of West Goscote, county of Leicester, and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was held of Lewes rape in 1279 and later. 97 William de la Mare held land at Wick before 1189. 98 In 1267 Stephen … Woodmancote, possibly the same, in 1282. 1 In 1315 John de la Mare of Garsington (Oxon.) died seised of Sands manor, … in Fulking, together with the hamlet of Wick; 2 the de la Mare family in the 13th century had been lords of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a royal servant. 60 In 1450 it was confirmed to Alice de la Pole (d. 1475), dowager duchess of Suffolk, daughter and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… as three assarts containing 40 acres in Woolbeding and la Niwode, for the acquisition of which by Alice, then …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Stourbridge to Wolverhampton; the soil around it is of a sandy quality, and the surface is undulated. Glass-works have … bank of the river to a considerable elevation; the soil is sandy, with a large intermixture of clay. The living is a …