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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a donative; net income, 235; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Devon. The church, situated about a mile from … of Humbleton, celebrated for the victory gained by Percy, Earl of Northumberland, in the reign of Henry IV., over a Scottish army of 10,000 men, under the command of Earl Douglas: the engagement occurred on a plain within a …
A Dictionary of London
… Woolsack Alley See Cutler Street. Worcester House William, earl of Worcester, was seised of the capital messuage called …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was made after 1546 when John Conway, steward of Henry, Earl of Worcester, obtained a lease of two-thirds of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the advowson and rectory were granted in 1537 to Henry, Earl of Worcester, 97 who held them at his death in 1549. 98 … Roger de Derneford, who held the manor from Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, obtained licence for a priest to celebrate …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a result of the grant of the Tintern Abbey estates to the Earl of Worcester, and up to the late 19th century most of … was begun c. 1650, after the sequestration of the Earl of Worcester's estate, but the process was reversed by … Woolaston to Tintern Abbey in 1131, 1 and in 1223 William, Earl Marshal, granted Tintern Abbey the right to make …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 7 but was granted by William I to William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford (d. 1071). 8 William was succeeded by his … action confirmed by his nephew and heir Gilbert Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke (d. c. 1148) and between c. 1148 and 1155 by … hands in 1536, and was granted in 1537 to Henry Somerset, Earl of Worcester, together with other estates in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in the 1520s before passing in 1538 to Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford. 15 Following Seymour's attainder and death … merchant. 17 From 1566 it was let to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and continued to be let until 1876. 18 In …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Edward the Confessor by Fulcui, was not included in Earl Roger's rape but was held in 1086 of the king in chief … third, held by William's widow Eve, to Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and John de Hastings (his heir). 21 Although Laurence de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, was confirmed in his right to the manor of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the king's books at 13. 6. 0., and in the gift of the Earl of Coventry: the tithes have been commuted for 153, and …
The Environs of London
… of it before 1327 10; the next year, Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford, executed a deed, by which he conveyed to …