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A History of the County of Hampshire
… College of St. Mary, founded by William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. Swithun, … a buttress had to be built against its southern face. 4 After the Reformation Thurburn's chantry was thrown into … Bekynton, Bishop of Bath and Wells, a beacon on a tun; Thomas Chaundler, warden of Winchester, a capital T and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 'ni disfaciant utlagos.' From Winchester this grim mercy 4 spread under the warrant of royal charter to Wallingford, … land where there is no crop. And no man shall lay hand on the lands or tenements aforesaid while the king's … unless he was under age, or out of the country or in prison, or unless there be [a claim] for reasonable partition …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry I, 4 the other granting quittance of toll passage and customs to … to the actual early constitution of the borough. The light on its existence that should come from the Domesday Survey is … to set free the Jews who had been imprisoned in the royal prison for the murder of a boy, on condition that the said …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… can only be left to conjecture, but Wolstan in his poem on St. Swithun 1 mentions a tower, apparently a gateway … belongs to Langton's time, and bears his device of a tun with TL, and another of a cockatrice on a tun. At the … either side of it, 9 ft. apart, are Purbeck marble shafts 4 ft. high, set against the wall. In this chapel is the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had … giving Westminster in exchange certain lands in Battersea. 4 The work at the castle was advanced enough for its use as a … of sedition, 'high misdemeanours,' or who were thrown into prison without knowing the charge against them. 380 Part of …
Survey of London Monograph
… III). See Norroy (3). 2. STEPHEN Windsor, c. 1366, ? cr. 4 October 1364. Windsor appears repeatedly in public records … sent to England with news of the battle of Auray, fought on 29 September 1364, and whom King Edward forthwith … of London; d. at College 9 May 1745; bur d St Peter's, Cornhill. App d Windsor 1736, ceremony of creation dispensed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Skipton; containing 140 inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary … containing 694 inhabitants. This place, which is situated on the line of the Roman Ermin-street, was formerly of … living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 18. 13. 4.; net income, 784; patron, the Rev. H. E. Fryer. There is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Oswi, and Leoflede, daughter of Brithnod the first abbot, on the admission into that monastery of their son Ailwin, … is supposed to have taken up his residence in the castle, on leaving which the king attempting to cross the Wash at an … St. Mary annexed, valued in the king's books at 26. 13. 4.; patron, the Bishop of Ely; appropriators, the Dean and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon … village, around the church and Leverington Hall, stands on a ridge just inside the old sea wall. There is ribbon … Common towards Parson Drove. The Bedford Level Act of 1663 4 authorized the inclosure, division, and allotting of 339 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which the manor ultimately took its name, must have been on the site of Barton Farm on the opposite side of the river. … the late 13th century the building was mainly used as a prison and as a place for holding the bishop's courts. John … as early as 1298-9, when the robes were valued at 53 s. 4 d. 36 A long series of account rolls of the castle bailiff …