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The Environs of London
… Morden MORDON. Name. The name of this place has been invariably written Mordune, Mordone, or Mordon, alluding to its situation; mor and dune both signifying a hill. Situation, boundaries, &c. Mordon is ten miles from Westminster-bridge, in the road to …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… or Howe-hills). Grindon, An obscure manor, to the South of Mordon Carrs, now better known as the Howhills 57. This was … Nevill's lordship of Preston-le-Skerne. In 1561 Rowland Mordon 58 died seised of the manor of Grindon, and of a … leaving William his son and heir 59. In 1564 this William Mordon contracted Isabel, his only daughter and heir, to …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… William Lambarde, John Kirkeby, William Lambton, and John Mordon, Esquires, pronounced their decree in the Chapel of …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… unopposed by any lateral barrier, in the great level below Mordon and the Isle 100. Of the sand hills, which occur along … Nympha Lutea, Yellow Water-lilly, in the Skerne, near Mordon and Bradbury. The Nympha Alba, which I certainly remember to have seen in the Skerne near Mordon, is, I fear, extirpated; it is preserved in ponds at …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… leaving out Darlington, and crossing the country by Mordon, Bradbury, Windleston, and near West Auckland, to the …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… the church-yard, about fourteen acres; and of a farm at Mordon-moor-house, in the parish of Sedgefield, purchased …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… the estates to the custody of his escheator William de Mordon, during the minority of Robert Clifford (son and heir …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… Sands, and Layton 1; 2. Bradbury and the Isle; 3. Mordon; 4. Foxton and Shotton; 5. Butterwick, which includes … one of the malmen, held eighteen acres, once William of Mordon's, 6 s. and a dovecote 6 d. and twelve pence for the … ever 14. ChaplainsJohn de Bischopton, 13926. William de Mordon, 1413. Thomas Hoton, 14351454. Robert Kerr, bur. in …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… line from Old Durham and Mainsforth, through Bradbury, Mordon, Stainton, and Sadberge, to the ford over the Tees at …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… following inscription: 'Orate pro anima magistri Johannis Mordon alias Andrew quondam Rectoris istius ecclesie qui … 'Jon preyth the sey for hym a pater noster & an ave.' John Mordon probably died in 1413, his successor being instituted … I. a Add. MS. 5839, fol. 77. Browne Willis says that John Mordon died in 1410, probably from the date on the brass, but …