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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … it was taken in 628, by Penda, King of Mercia, whose son Wulfhere, on his accession to the throne, appointed Osric … and his appointment was subsequently confirmed by her son, Henry II. In 1149, Stephen, to punish the inhabitants …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… WORCESTER Bishops BISHOPS OF WORCESTER Wulfstan Prior of Worcester. Proposed c. 31 … 3 May (Worcester obit.: Cat. Worc. MSS. p. 93). Robert son of William Fitz Ralph 4 Archdcn. of Nottingham (York … 131 places his cons. in 1159. Cf. Cart. Worc. p. lii n. 7. Son of Robert, earl of Gloucester (see Materials for Becket …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve … her, was about a moneth sithence forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had … of on Thomas Ballard whoe begate her with childe of a son they boeth dwellinge to gether in on Richard Atkes howse, …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) To the right … wise sheweth unto your worships that your petitioners son William Langley lived above the space of one year a … natural affection which your petitioner doth bear unto her son she did accept of fifteen pence by the week from the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. … upon Werchesoppe, and he is there called Elsi, son of Castbin, but the third penny of the earl was not his. … Maud, the sister and coheir of Richard Fitz-John Fitz-Geoffrey, the justice of Ireland, who was afterwards married …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Worlingham Worlingham. Ulf, a free-man of Gurth, the brother of Harold, held Worlingham at the time … 5 It afterwards became the property of John Felton, Esq., son of Sir John Felton, of Playford; whose only daughter, … Bart., of Kentwell Hall in Long Melford. Sir Thomas, his son, sold the property and residence at Long Melford, and the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable … from the Middle Ages. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of demesne ploughs increased from 3 to 4, and the men … Thurston (d. 1581), and William Browne (d. 1573) and his son Robert (d. 1595). 74 In the 17th and 18th centuries Cooks …
A History of the County of Essex
… had been taken by Raymond Girald and was held by Roger of Poitou who held manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. … Michael who held it in 1303, 2 Thomas (d. 1339), and his son Michael, 3 who exchanged it in 1362 with his nephew … who conveyed it in 1336 to John Rokell. 35 It was held by Geoffrey Rokell (d. 1467) and then by John Pooley (d. 1487) …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… N.E. (b)xxxi. S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands at the S. end of the … Brasses: in chancelat E. end of S. wall, (1) of Philip, son of Robert Kinge, Bishop of Oxford, 1592, and Elizabeth, … built in 1675 for six men and four women by John King, son of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, and grandson of John …