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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hall is a large old edifice in the township. A copyhold court is held here. Woolton, Much WOOLTON, MUCH, a chapelry, … near which is a large brick building used as a racket-court by the officers. The whole establishment is arranged …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… standing within a moat of quadrangular form and an outer court, of which only part of the range of buildings on the W. … bay windows remain. The surviving building in the outer court is also of the 16th century. The buildings were largely … tunnel with a two-centred arch opening into it. The Green Court of the palace adjoined the moat on the N.E. side; it …
The Environs of London
… of Edward IV.) it was sold to the Boughtons of Burwash-court: it is probable he had seen some deed in which the … See Hasted's History of Kent, vol. i. p. 44. A Court-leet and Court-baron are held annually by Sir John Shaw, tenant of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a gate of the royal park. By the 17th century the hundred court was called the Park Gate court. 20 Numerous franchises were established in the hundred … pleas, including those of ve de naam, at a three-weekly court at North Oseney, while from some manors he also claimed …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… between 1842 and 1886. 22 LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Records of the court of Wootton Rivers manor survive for 1455-6, 1561-4, and … for 1702, and for 1710-1900. From the 17th century the court was called a court baron. It was not usually held more than once a year …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… within the city and county of the city, not capital; a court of record takes place every Monday, for the recovery of debts to any amount, and a sheriff's court occurs monthly. The powers of the county debt-court of Worcester, established in 1847, extend over the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… shield of the arms of Glastonbury Abbey (formerly in the court near the hall); three of the windows are original, but …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… peticion of Margery Glover widow etc. Preferr this to the court to be examined To allow her iiii pence weekly so she … of Poole afforsaid for terme of his lyffe by coppie of court rolle accordinge to the custome of the said manner. And … with the wronges that one William Childe late of Poole Court esquier deceased did unto this poore petitioner and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… by an order graunted in this honerable and worshipfull court of quarter shissines that your pore petissiner ane …