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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 817 inhabitants. Worsthorn, or Wrdest, belonged to Henry de Wrdest in the reign of Stephen or Henry II.; and was granted in that of Edward II., by Henry de Lacy, to the Stansfield family. It afterwards became the … a chapelry, in the parish of Breedon, union of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the …
A History of the County of York
… who was a minor dignitary instituted in 1232 by Walter de Gray to perform the duties of the precentor in his … the cathedral officers to pull down the screen— clausure de charpenterie—around the monument and pile wood and stone …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WORTHING comprised two estates which belonged to William de Braose in 1086; one, called Ordinges, had belonged to Earl … le Savage, held both parts of the manor from William de Braose in 1086, 51 and Worthing descended with Broadwater … 70 No further record of the manor has been found. William de Bernehus gave land in Worthing to the hospital he had …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Catholic public worship. In 1862 the Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion established a temporary convent in North Street whose …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 718 inhabitants. In the reign of Edward I., Geoffrey de Neville had a grant of free warren here. The Pooleys of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… hands modern, modern inscription cut in slab, to Agnes de Wightham, wife of William de Grenevyle, 1386; on W. wall, on modern brackets (2) small …
A History of the County of Rutland
… from the importance of the hundred courtnamely, Isabel de Paunton in Glaston, the Bishop of Lincoln in Liddington, … hundred. The hundred was probably the soke which Michael de Hanslope held at Barrowden, and was undoubtedly the … without issue, leaving as his heir his nephew, William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, who …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… barony of Manchester. The lordship was given by Albert de Gresley to Orm, son of Ailward or Edward, progenitor of the Ashtons, of Ashton; and his descendants were called de Wrightington. Robert Dicconson, of Eccleston, married …
A Dictionary of London
… Wryngeres-Aley In Colmanstret in parish of St. Stephen de Colman strete. "Wringes-aley," 37 Ed. III. (Anc. Deeds, A. … named in the maps. Wyewall (St.) (Soke of) Grant by Hugh de Vyenne, Canon of St. Martin's le Grand of the soke of St. … H.W. I. 267). "Le Wyn wharf in parochia Sancti Martini de Vinetra," 1330 (Hust. Roll. No. 58). In Vintry Ward. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… edifice called Wroxhall Abbey, founded by Hugh de Hatton, about the close of the reign of Henry I., for … This place, at the Conquest, was granted to Roger de Bussy, Baron of Tickhill, in the county of York. From that …