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A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th … France. 28 The castle was then put into the hands of Queen Eleanor in trust for King Richard. 29 This settlement … from London, and carrying with him his wife, Eleanor of Castile, the queen's jewels and a large sum of money, threw …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 … Jos. Green Sept. 1838, in scrapbook in possession of Mrs. Eleanor Beard. Lascelles' Dir. Oxon. (1853 edn); Oxf. Chron. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the … reversion to John FitzAlan of Arundel, who had married Eleanor Mautravers, a grand-daughter of John and Agnes. … in 1410. John (d. 1421) 66 was survived by his wife Eleanor who retained a third of the manor as dower until her …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … in an exchange in 1285, 69 when it was assigned to Queen Eleanor (d. 1290), who left it for life to the Savoyard … son and heir Sir Edmund (d. 1438) and the latter's wife Eleanor 86 (d. 1451). Eleanor's heir was her grandson Sir …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … same year, to Sir Thomas Roe 9. After the death of Dame Eleanor Roe his widow, (which happened in 1675,) it was sold … tomb; nor is there any memorial for him at Woodford 37. Eleanor, his widow, was buried Dec. 6, 1675. "Rowland, son of …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the … (d. 1644), the traveller and diplomatist. 35 Rowe's widow Eleanor held the manor until her death in 1675, 36 after … Rayhouse to John Hatfield, a London vintner, and Eleanor his wife, to whom William Ripton also released his …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 … a., was settled in 1768 on the marriage of John Plumer and Eleanor, daughter of Richard Morton. 83 Thomas Coppard was … Poynings (d. 1446), who was succeeded by his granddaughter Eleanor and her husband Henry Percy, 11 from 1455 earl of …
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. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … Joan, wife of Roger Pym. Joan held jointly with her mother Eleanor who married secondly John Davy of Bridgwater. 5 By …
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 … manor 16 by William Paynel (d. 1184), passing to his widow Eleanor de Vitr, countess of Salisbury, on whose death in … the hundred by charter, custom, or usurpation. 21 In 1232 Eleanor, countess of Salisbury, was trying, apparently …
A History of the County of Essex
… had been taken by Raymond Girald and was held by Roger of Poitou who held manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. … it to William de Munfitchet and thereafter the manor of WORMINGFORD HALL was held of the barony of Stansted … was given small amounts of land in Wormingford by Queen Eleanor, and Matthew Gernon, and Robert, son of William of …