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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is sand and clay. It has been the inheritance of the Crewe family from a very early period. The Hall, the seat of Lord … is fitted up as a library, and contains a number of family portraits, and fine pictures: the mansion has also a … spire, and contains several ancient monuments of the Dixie family; it is beautifully situated, commanding an extensive …
A History of the County of Somerset
… de Courtenay, and thence descended through the Courtenay family. 4 In 1556 ownership was divided, and a survey of 1599 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… manor probably took its name from members of the Abingdon family who acquired it in the 13th century. 10 Cricklade was … Malmesbury, bearing the arms of a branch of the Hungerford family, 4 although there is no evidence of this. A market … Sampson's church were built by members of the Hungerford family of Down Ampney (Glos.); 10 there is no evidence to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… four garrets. It then may have been the home of the Nott family, 7 as it apparently was until c. 1800. 8 Great Lodge … son Sir Thomas Kemp and other members of the Kemp family sold it to Sir James Croft, comptroller of the … may have been Isabel's and have passed to the Lawrence family by the marriage either of Eleanor, the daughter of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Strathearn, which office became hereditary in the family of Drummond, with whom it remained till the abolition … in good preservation, supposed to have been the private family chapel; and in the immediate vicinity formerly stood … The town formerly gave the title of earl to the Mackenzie family, but George, the third earl, was attainted for his …
Old and New London
… he was reduced to great distress, till he was taken as family tutor by Sir Thomas Lucy, of Warwickshire, the … of the old mansion of the Basings, of whom one, Solomon Basing, was Lord Mayor in the first year of Henry III. To his … and Milk Street, and the advowson of the church at Basing Hall. According to an old tradition, which Stow …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… of a pelican 'in her piety,' the crest of the Chandler family. Inside the building the walls of the vestibule are …