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A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel … by 1750. 15 He was succeeded at his death in 1774 by his son Sir William (d. 1777), whose nephew and heir George White … who conveyed it in the same year to John Edmunds and his son John; 35 after 1568 it descended almost continuously with …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … Mortain, in 1086. 10 The fee probably passed to Robert's son William who forfeited his estates in 1106. 11 By 1166 it was held by Drew the younger 12 and descended like the manor of Shepton …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family … allowed to fall into disrepair because the original terms of the endowment had not been complied with. Despite local … to the poor. In 1835 Vaughan Thomas and the churchwardens drew up a schedule for the better management of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel … time that the chapel and tower were built. Sir Thomas's son Sir William built in 1634 a screen at the tower entrance, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along … created, including that bought by Henry Irish, 65 whose son John's assessment for the subsidy of 1581 was second only …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The … principal victims Sir William Spencer of Yarnton. 41 His son, Sir Thomas, kept lordly state at Yarnton Manor, … Jane Stone, member of a prominent Yarnton family. Their son James, author of Antiquities of Rutland, was born in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually … successively by Reynold of St. Valery (d. c. 1162), his son Bernard (d. 1191), and Bernard's son Thomas (d. 1219). Thomas's daughter and heir Annora …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. … lands were granted by William the Lion to Hugh de Gifford, son of an English gentleman of that name, who in the reign of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … (d. 1231) held the manor c. 1217 and it passed to his son Herbert FitzMatthew. 74 In 1239 Herbert was granted free … portions was probably the estate held in 1594 by John Drew and called Yatesbury manor. 98 John's estate was held in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Church CHURCH. Masonry of the 12th century or earlier re-used in the church porch … Standlake, and Stanton Harcourt in the united benefice of Lower Windrush. 2 Bampton, to whose large pre-Conquest … 38 His successor Charles Hastings (d. 1637) was a younger son of the patron. 39 The rectors presented by the Lenthalls …