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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… acknowledge that he was 'a knight of an honourable family and eminent in his country' and promise to behave … and carried to Sir John, being a knight of an honourable family and eminent in his country. I do hereby humbly …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… his relative Ralph Carnaby, from a junior branch of the family, 'to give his armes with due distinction, which he not … petitioner is a gentleman of coate armour of an ancient family, and for these 20, or at least 15 yeares, hath lived …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Samuel. Apart from these two talented craftsmen the Alken family was also renowned as sporting painters. [D; Gunnis; S … Gold and also A large picture frame for the present family picture. [V&A archives; C. Life, 23 January 1975] … May be the Thomas Allen, sedan chairmaker to the royal family, who was resident in Maddox St in the mid 1760s. [Poll …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… (on Clarendon,) " by Thurloe's Papers, that the royal family did project and encourage Cromwell's assassination." …
Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow
… true a blacksmith and brewhouse keeper at Putney: but the family had been settled there since 1452, and came from …
Alumni Oxonienses
… of Newmarket and Ballyhooly, knight, ancestor of the family seated at Newmarket aforesaid. Aldworth, Richard born …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in use in 1293. 38 The demesnes were farmed by the Hobbes family in the early 16th century. In 1542 the manor was … the previous year Bailward had purchased from the Wickham family the Long House, near Stowell, and nearly 400 a., a … manor until 1911. 68 Lordship remained with the Bailward family and was last recorded in 1931. 69 The capital messuage …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the manor or lordship to Thomas and Francis Sheldon, whose family continued to be owners of the parish, until it passed … century, the property passed by purchase into the Pitt family, by one of whom, Governor Pitt (who brought the Pitt … a farmhouse. Abergavenny confers the title of Earl on the family of Neville; the earldom, like the earldoms of Arundel …