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A History of the County of Gloucester
… that there had once been chapels of ease at Rodley and Ley was recorded c. 1703 but no supporting evidence has been …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… demesne farm of III a. and 60 a. of wood (evidently Ley Park), 73 a number of small free rents, and some small … land held at will. 74 In 1717 the Earl of Kent's manor of Ley had 13 tenants who held by leases for lives with heriots … the Noards, Walmore Hill, Court and Broad fields at Lower Ley, and Stroud and Perry fields in Elton. 78 In the early …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… schools they taught has been found. In 1655 John Young of Ley gave half of a rent-charge of £7 for the education of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… part of the parish to the Severn near Garden Cliff or the Ley brook which forms the north-eastern boundary to its … was evidently at one time thickly wooded: the suffix ley, denoting a clearing, became incorporated in the names of … 16 A fir-wood was recorded on Westbury manor in 1086. 17 Ley Woods in the north of the parish are the main surviving …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Of the tithings of the parish outside Rodley manor, Upper Ley and Northwood were then under one tithingman while there was one each for Lower Ley and Boseley. 38 Churchwardens' accounts survive for …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… de Sapy's share was usually known later as the manor of LEY; Robert, who was licensed in 1330 to inclose the estate … 1560), whose son George held it at his death in 1590. 86 Ley manor passed to George's son Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury … c. 360 a. mainly lying around the house called Old Ley Court in the north-east part of the parish. Henry sold …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… also had a small mission chapel at Lower Ley, 80 and in 1893 they built a lecture hall in Westbury …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… marble and stone monument with effigies of Sir James Ley (d. 1629), lord of the capital manor, 45 and of his wife. …