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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… N.E., is a dry ditch with a right-angled bend. (3). Showle Court, house, outbuilding and moat, 1,160 yards N.N.E. of the … (13). Cottage, 60 yards E. of (12). (14). Monksbury Court, about 1 m. N.E. of the church, is of 18th or …
A History of the County of Somerset
… MANORS The 10 hides at Gyrdlingatone given to Glastonbury abbey in the mid 10th century have been interpreted as at … manor in the later Middle Ages, one incorporating a court leet. 36 Estreats survive for the 1540s, when the court dealt with assaults and fined the miller for excessive …
A History of the County of Oxford
… made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the … of the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20 The inclosure commissioners of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 … to Wytham parish, 30 and the north was owned by Godstow abbey, passing eventually to the dukes of Marlborough. 31 The … Bladon. 36 The rights may have been reorganized on Rewley abbey's acquisition of the manor in 1281: the demesne meadow …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 An accusation of the late 15th century that Rewley abbey had partly depopulated the parish by inclosing 87 is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund … at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at the honorial court at North Osney. Villeins as well as free tenants were, … shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the manorial court was in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by … later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates but not, apparently, Yarnton. In 1086 … son Edmund granted Yarnton in 1281 to the newly founded abbey of Rewley. 67 Yarnton remained part of the honor of St. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… and N. The chimney-stack has two diagonal shafts. a(28). Court House, on the N.E. side of the road, 60 yards S.E. of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… those usual in a small rural parish. 18 LOCAL GOVERNMENT A court was held for Yatesbury manor. In 171617 and 1719, as … meeting was held with a view of frankpledge. The combined court proceeded on the presentments of a joint homage and … holdings, and tenurial business was transacted. 19 The court continued to be held until the mid 19th century, 20 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Portreeve and Burgesses of Yeovil; and a daily court of pie-poudre was anciently held by the provost on … exercises magisterial authority while in office. A court of record formerly took place every three weeks; and a court-leet for the borough is still held annually, by the …