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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant by Walter … the advowson and rectory were granted in 1537 to Henry, Earl of Worcester, 97 who held them at his death in 1549. 98 … Roger de Derneford, who held the manor from Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, obtained licence for a priest to celebrate …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted … a result of the grant of the Tintern Abbey estates to the Earl of Worcester, and up to the late 19th century most of … was begun c. 1650, after the sequestration of the Earl of Worcester's estate, but the process was reversed by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. … 7 but was granted by William I to William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford (d. 1071). 8 William was succeeded by his … action confirmed by his nephew and heir Gilbert Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke (d. c. 1148) and between c. 1148 and 1155 by …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. … in the 1520s before passing in 1538 to Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford. 15 Following Seymour's attainder and death … merchant. 17 From 1566 it was let to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and continued to be let until 1876. 18 In …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woolbeding WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 … of Edward the Confessor by Fulcui, was not included in Earl Roger's rape but was held in 1086 of the king in chief … third, held by William's widow Eve, to Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and John de Hastings (his heir). 21 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; … wapentake of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Grantham; containing 674 … in the king's books at 13. 6. 0., and in the gift of the Earl of Coventry: the tithes have been commuted for 153, and …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … of it before 1327 10; the next year, Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford, executed a deed, by which he conveyed to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of … the wapentake of Yarborough, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 5 miles (S. E.) from Barton-upon-Humber; containing … valued in the king's books at 12, and in the gift of the Earl of Clarendon: the great tithes have been commuted for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … which was free from all outside interference, and Edmund, earl of Cornwall's numerous manors in the hundred, for which … 'hundred'. Though the withdrawal of suit by some of the earl's tenants was challenged, 23 the North Oseney court …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains … 1086. 37 WOOTTON RIVERS manor was held by Walter Giffard, earl of Buckingham (d. 1164), half of whose estates had been acquired by William Marshal, earl of Pembroke (d. 1219), by 1190. 38 The manor had been …