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A Survey of London
… Watches in London Of watches in this Citie, and other Matters 1 commanded, and the cause why. Curfew Bell at 8. of the clocke commaunded fire and candle to be quenched.; … In time of which Councell, a brother of the Earle Ferrers being in the night priuily slaine at London, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's, county of Hertford; … the 36th of Henry III. the manor was granted to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, from whom it reverted to the crown. …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Watford Manors MANORS The manor of WATFORD, according to a monastic writer of the fifteenth … 157980 to John Farnham, 52 and the mill in 1609 to Edward Ferrers and Francis Phillips, 53 the fee-farm rent of 13 from … at the same date to Sir Christopher Hatton and others. 54 Ferrers and Phillips sold the mill in the same year to Sir …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… West Derby hundred The City of Liverpool TOPOGRAPHY THE HUNDRED OF WEST DERBY ( … charged on the borough, being answered for by William de Ferrers as sheriff of Lancaster. How much was covered by this … which lasted for three years only, and that of the three Ferrers, Earls of Derby, whose tenure extended (with the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Introduction WEST DRAYTON The ancient parish of West Drayton lies almost at the western extremity of Middlesex. 1 It has the shape of an irregular rectangle, … of Swan Road the 22-acre Drayton House estate, on which Ferrers Avenue was built, had already been laid out for …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… had been given by Athelstan to the cathedral church of St. Paul, and the date 939 has been given for this grant. … possession by about 1000, when West Drayton supplied one of a number of 'shipmen' for a muster drawn from estates in … portions: the manor-house, and 8 acres adjacent, to Earl Ferrers, and the bulk of the lands in West Drayton, …
The Environs of London
… Situation, and boundaries. This parish lies in the hundred of Becontree; and is bounded on the east by Eastham; on the … which the church is situated, lies a little to the south of the high road, and four miles from Whitechapel. The … of Bretts. The manor of Bretts was the property of John Ferrers, Esq. who died in 1478 24. The reversion was then …
A History of the County of Essex
… and estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1066 the manor of Ham, which comprised 8 hides and 30 a. and lay wholly or … 60 In 1412 'Birts' (i.e. Bretts) was held by William de Ferrers, Lord Ferrers de Groby, who had married, as his second wife, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Mills MILLS. At the time of the Domesday Survey there were six mills on the capital … other lands at Penleigh, was granted in 1609-10 to Edward Ferrers and Francis Phillipps. 36 This property, including the mills, was purchased from Ferrers and Phillips by Sir James Ley, and he held it at the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… before the year 1550. It is thought that the inclusion of this "Armorial" will be of some interest to students, the blazon given being the … swords hilts to the centre between three ermine tails. Ferrers and Derby, Earl of vairy or and gules. Fitzalan gules …