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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Scalers, of which 3½ hides had belonged in 1066 to a king's thegn. 52By 1166 it was held as part of 5 knights' fees by Pain's successor, William son of Roger, under Stephen de Scalers, … preferments to acquire for his family a large landed estate in west Cambridgeshire, bought Overhall from her in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… church had four members at Boxworth, including Henry Smith and his wife who proved backsliders. 58Dissenters were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Bradford Abbas 9 BRADFORD ABBAS (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. XI, N.E.) Bradford Abbas is a small parish 3 m. S.W. of Sherborne. The church is the principal monument. … In W. toweron N. wall, tablet commemorating foundation of Charity School, 1781. In churchyardS. of chancel, traceried …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Sherborne, Sherborne division of Dorset, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Sherborne; containing 652 inhabitants. It … of Clifton-Mabank was united in 1824, valued in the king's books at 7. 17. 11., and in the gift of the Warden and … elevation. The Rev. William Preston, in 1738, gave an estate now worth 24 per annum; and in 1781, Mark West and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… ford' (mentioned in the 1140s) from which Shropshire's most extensive hundred took its name, 1 lies within the … for even before it took place Wrockwardine was the county's largest hundred. 10 The change may, however, have served … Lilleshall, Haughmond, and Combermere each owned an estate that owed or did suit to the hundred in 1255, though …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1 It was stated in 1255 that the Abbess of Shaftesbury's 'foreign men' of Bradford hundred formerly did suit twice a … hundred. In 1227 the abbess released the Prior of Farleigh's men of South Wraxall, Monkton Farleigh, and Broughton … not do suit to Selkley hundred, the Prior of St. Swithun's, Winchester, was able to profer a charter of Henry III …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for reasons that are obscure, as part of Bradley. Aylworth's history is given with Naunton in Volume Six. 9 Fig. 1. … 1249 to that made for Northleach, and by 1303 Cirencester's officers also held a view for a part of Shipton known as … places supplied from the woods of the Dowdeswell manor estate in the 18th century. Farming leases of the 18th and …
Survey of London
… and mention that the northern boundary was Dr. Chisholm's schoolgrounds. A reference to the map shows clearly that … given to enquire, and in 1550 a return was made of Essex's estate in Fulham Manor, to all intents and purposes identical … On 6th November, 1600, Agmondesham had sold to Christopher Smith a portion of the Butterwick's property, amounting to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 2 miles (E. S. E.) from Leek; containing 442 inhabitants, many of whom … king's books at 11. 6. 8., and in the patronage of Abel Smith, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for 326, and there … voluntary contributions. In the reign of Charles I., Henry Smith, alderman of London, who, from the habit of wandering …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… as claiming an interest in the soil are Mr. Anguish's manor of Gapton Hall with Belton; the manor of Caldecott … nearest relative of the said Mary Buck. They charged the estate with an annuity of 40 shillings per annum, for ever, … the said rector, upon that day, to excite the people to charity: and the other 20 shillings, part thereof, yearly, on …