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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Redbornestoke, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Bedford; containing 1122 inhabitants. It … elevation. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 13. 6. 8., and has a net income of 236; the … the 31st year of his reign, the government is vested in a mayor, two aldermen, and twelve capital burgesses, assisted …
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 … the 1270s the principal franchises included Queen Eleanor's Hanborough manor, which was free from all outside interference, and Edmund, earl of Cornwall's numerous manors in the hundred, for which he held pleas, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix in the parish's name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was … opened fully in 1810. 6 A wharf, a lock, and a lock keeper's house were built immediately south of the village, and … between 1842 and 1886. 22 LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Records of the court of Wootton Rivers manor survive for 1455-6, 1561-4, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cathedral, of which the only one now remaining is Edgar's tower. In 1041, a tax imposed by Hardicanute excited an … the king's use, and a considerable quantity of plate. The mayor and aldermen, being taken into custody for surrendering … within the city and county of the city, not capital; a court of record takes place every Monday, for the recovery of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… buildings of the college are the ranges of Camerae on the S. of the site built at various times in the 15th century and … till after 1786. The new N. Range with the Provost's Lodgings at the W. end was built between 1753 and 1776. In … 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
… the overseers for the poore there appeare before Master [S.t?] Chauncellor and Master Jones and to shew cause etc. … 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 …
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 …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… to your former chari= table dealinge orders made in open court on our behalfes with us, we shalbe alwayes bound to … the freeholder that oweth the cottage beinge present is in court, is contented to let him there dwell rent free This …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… by distresse but [first?] [illegible] of the court and chardges in [ret?] allowed etc. Thomas Ferne of the …