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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… since the 1630s. They included £2 and £10 from the rectors John Boys (d. 1644) and James Duport (d. 1679), £10 from Sir John Cutts (d. 1670), 83perhaps paid over c. 1690, and £12 … 1792) left £10 for the same purpose. The income fell by 8 s. between 1815 and the 1830s to £2 6 s. 8 d., which a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… c. 1545. 67In 1499 Sir William Knyvett chose a kinsman, John Knyvett, who resigned in 1516. 68Francis Holt, rector … for his widow, who appointed John Boys, their daughter's intended husband. 69 John Standley, having quarrelled with … by 1337, 2had been drowned fighting at Sluys in 1340, the king presented a royal clerk, absent on royal service in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… only to three quarters of its pre-Conquest value of £8 10 s., only eight sokemen remained. The two manors with demesnes … the manor supposedly included 500 a. of heath. 3By 1596 John Hutton owned Knapwell pasture south of the wood; its … to Thomas Marsh, lord of Knapwell, 5and 240 a. in 1591 to John Killingworth. 6That land probably went to form the large …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Zouches' court at Swavesey and to the honor of Richmond's Cambridgeshire tourns. 53The lords of Huntingfields and … of frankpledge and the assize of bread and of ale, but the king's hundred bailiff was entitled to attend and take the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… de Scalers, of which 3½ hides had belonged in 1066 to a king's thegn. 52By 1166 it was held as part of 5 knights' fees by … by 1332, the manor descended to his son Henry, 72 of whom John Coupland in 1346 held two thirds of the Coningtons' …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Humbleyard, E. division of Norfolk, 6 miles (S. W.) from Norwich; containing 293 inhabitants. The road … the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the patronage of the family of … at the time of the Domesday survey; in the reign of John it was conveyed to the Bradborne family, of whom Henry …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Bradfield 9. Bradfield. (E.b.) (O.S. 6 in. xx. S.W.) Bradfield is a parish and village 7 m. W. of Harwich. … embroidered stomacher, etc., and shield of arms; (2) to John Harbotle, 1577, inscription and shield of arms; (3) to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Bradford Abbas 9 BRADFORD ABBAS (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. XI, N.E.) Bradford Abbas is a small parish 3 m. S.W. … square head with a label and head-stops of a bishop and a king; further W. is a modern archway. In the S. wall is a … with repainted devices: the initials I.S. (perhaps for John Saunder, Abbot of Sherborne 145975), cross of St. George …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Sherborne, Sherborne division of Dorset, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Sherborne; containing 652 inhabitants. It … of Clifton-Mabank was united in 1824, valued in the king's books at 7. 17. 11., and in the gift of the Warden and … 40 per annum. Two almshouses here, one founded by Mr. John Hall for aged men, the other for aged women, are …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… ford' (mentioned in the 1140s) from which Shropshire's most extensive hundred took its name, 1 lies within the … named. Before the Conquest both manors had been held by King Edward the Confessor; in Wrockwardine, and doubtless in … during pleasure, and in 1309 Edward II granted it to John de Vaux for life. 78 In 1310 Vaux exchanged it with the …