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A History of the County of Berkshire
… but are interesting as representing the traditions as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the … need of repair, the case of Windsor being specially grave owing to the fact that the money assigned for its repair had … spent the following summer and autumn at Windsor, when owing to the prevalence of plague in London no one from the …
Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the service of the Order of the … late. The title has not been met (outside Lant) from 1380 to 1418 or 1419 when Windsor was sent to the Duke of Brittany … Arms, Anstis MS. H. 4, 58 b; 1569 suspended for not paying debts to William and Nicholas Dethick; restored by E.M's wt. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… pulpit is a monument with a recumbent figure in armour, to the memory of Sir Robert Hildyard. The celebrated Andrew … were allotted at the inclosure, when 23 were also assigned to the church. Winford-Eagle (St. Lawrence) WINFORD-EAGLE ( … soil is fertile, resting on gravel. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Toller-Fratrum: the impropriate tithes …
A History of the County of Stafford
… sokemen owed moderate labour services and were able to pass on their land to their heirs on the payment of a heriot; one of the men who … ( ratchenistus), the title given in the Anglo-Saxon period to a tenant who acted as a part-time estate official. By the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Ansfrid de Cormeilles who had received it on his marriage to a niece of Walter de Lacy, 45 although Walter's son Hugh … of the honor among the daughters of Walter de Cormeilles, to Godfrey of Craycombe who married Alice. 48 From 1303, … his estate to trustees in 1790 for a sale to clear his debts. It was bought in 1793 by Richard Haviland of Upton St. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… stream and dry tributary valleys extend from it to W. and N.W. The most important monument is (9) a … of a mediaeval Deer Park (7) are found in Park Bottom, to the S. of the same settlement. Winterborne Houghton may … (53)) but direct relationship cannot be established, owing to disturbance; it is possibly a boundary associated …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… mile east of it, stood the town Ad Abum, which, according to Stukeley, was ploughed up at the close of the 17th … Methodists; and a national school. A bequest amounting to 16 per annum, made by Thomas Boothby in 1682, is … the poor. A man and woman from the parish are entitled to 10 per annum each, charged upon the rectorial tithes of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the county boundary transferred a small built-up area to Emneth (Norf.) which was not quite counterbalanced, as … tower, and spire. These last show serious settlements owing to inadequate foundations. There is one bell. The … Emneth was estimated to be 225. Attendance was irregular owing to the claims of farm work, and the farmers were said …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… marsh land, between the Roman Bank and the Nene outfall, to the owners of commonable messuages or tenements in … and the income derived from the endowment so reduced-owing to flooding of the lands and other causes-that from … from this source two years later. By 1805 he found himself owing another £1,700, and decided to sell the property. 1 It …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… soils by the Nene through heavier silts around the village to peat on clay at the extreme western end in the fen. With … road (B 1165)-an alternative route from Wisbech to Spalding-forms the main street of the village, and there … Portions of the estate had to be sold or assigned to meet debts and legacies, 36 and when Robert Barker (who assumed …