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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Manors and lesser estates MANORS AND LESSER ESTATES In 1086 Wilton was in the custody of … custos to the Crown for all dues. The borough yielded 50, and had yielded 22 when Hervey took it over. 1 Whether the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… W. by Ermine Street, with some adjustments in either case, and on the S. by the river Rhee. The boundary on the E. with … it rises to a scarp over 250 ft. above O.D., through chalk and gault, to river gravel at about 50 ft.; but the chalk … affords the usual plentiful springs of water. Both Wimpole and Orwell have gained territorially from the disappearance …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Wincanton lies in the south-east part of the county and at its centre is the largest town of the district. 81 The parish is divided between one principal and three smaller areas, and many very small pieces of land consisting of isolated …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wincanton - Windy Nook Wincanton (St. Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… is the only remaining portion of the castle where Norman and Angevin kings resided, where Henry I was married to Maud of Scotland and their son William Atheling was born, where Henry III was … born, where Henry VIII entertained the Emperor Charles V, and where Mary and Philip celebrated part of their ill-fated …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, … foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of … from William Rufus the grant of a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St. Giles, to be held 'on the Eastern hill of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and enactment, others clearly derive from remote antiquity. … the convicted citizen suffered brutal mutilation 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In … the warrant of royal charter to Wallingford, Portsmouth and possibly elsewhere. One illustration of this may be …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … granting to the citizens of Winchester all the liberties and customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … William, the castle was no doubt raised by his orders, 3 and from the first it has been the special stronghold of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … 2 the site of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest …