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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… 1 The Conqueror was possessed (when Domesday Book was made) of a carucate of land belonging to 2 freemen, and of 50 … day after the feast of St. Ambrose, the bishop, in 1417, made her will, which was proved on July 9, following, and … sans issue about the year 1470. King Henry VII. in 1486, made him his attorney general, was of his privy council, and, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… d. ob. gelt; Lisiws or Leswi had all these fees united and made one manor, before Eudo, who succeeded him therein, and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the invasion, or seizures of the lands at the conquest, made without any title or grant from the Conqueror.In …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… deprivation, Ralph de Waiet, alias Guader, &c. being made Earl of Norfolk in 1075 had a grant of this lordship, and on his rebellion it came again to the Crown, where it remained till King Henry I. … paid 10 l. for the said fees, on the King's son, being made a knight. In the see it remained till the exchange made …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… be taken down, the walls helped, and a new roof to be made after the patern of Little Plumstede; and because I am not able to lede it, I wyll, that it be redid and made at my coste." 3 Besides the towns here mentioned, there …
Old and New London
… the brothers when pacing the ground, never produced grass again. The fact is," adds the writer, "that these steps were … in 1763; the latter appears to have been the only erection made in this neighbourhood from the publication of Strype's … at one period, lived Sir Godfrey Kneller; and here the Speaker of the House of Commons, Arthur Onslow, died in 1768. …
Old and New London
… finer, and grander house in Bloomsbury Square; and here again he got into still greater difficulties than before. It … but by Parliament. Your fate depends on your success as a speaker, and, take my word for it, that success turns much … Disraeli, in the course of one of his speeches at Taunton, made an uncomplimentary reference to Daniel O'Connell, then …
A History of the County of Oxford
… they were attached, were probably once royal, as they were again in 1086, though earls Tostig and Edwin had held the … and Mollington, however, were omitted in 1306 10 and again in the Protestation Returns of 1642, when they were … hundred of a familiar type. How these two hundreds were made up it is impossible to say, though it may be worth …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… floor of the gabled E. bay is masked by a modern addition. Again the fenestration has been in part altered; nine … 18th century a cottage was added on the W., and another W. again a little later. About this time the original house was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… stationed at Aylesbury: it was retaken by Col. Gage, and again garrisoned for the king; but, after holding out for …