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A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … Sir Thomas St. Leger in memory of his wife Anne Duchess of Exeter and sister of Edward IV, who was buried in it. In the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … jointly with Henry Earl of Essex, 1511 489; Henry Earl of Devon, afterwards Marquess of Exeter, 1525 490 and 1538 491; Robert Earl of Leicester, …
Survey of London Monograph
… 930), but since then the succession has been maintained and Windsor is now one of the six heralds in ordinary. Badge: … news of the battle of Auray, fought on 29 September 1364, and whom King Edward forthwith appointed Windsor herald ( … 1726. Eldest s. of John Mauduit, B.D., of Ottery St Mary, Devon, sometime rector of Penshurst, Kent; Rouge Dragon 1690, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of about 2000 acres. Two-thirds are arable, and … a parish, in the union of Torrington, N. division of Devon, 6 miles (S. W.) from Chulmleigh; containing 1650 … to which it gives name. The new road from Torrington to Exeter passes through it, and the scenery is agreeably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Winchester, hundred of Fawley, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, of a mile (N. … This is a small parish, north of the road to Alresford, and east of the river Itchin.See Winchester. Winnersh … of Nighton, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter (the appropriators), valued in the king's books at 5: …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which … for any English rural district except Broadwood Widger (Devon). M. of H., Rural Housing (1944), 67. I. of E.C.C. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … hundred of Witheridge, South Molton and N. divisions of Devon, 8 miles (E.) from Chulmleigh; containing 1399 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have … hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon; containing, with part of the town of Exmouth, 1192 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the … and one from Curbridge, with preference given to widows of clothiers or blanket-makers. 6 The houses, to include an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… predominantly agricultural, with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 … to farm it from the manor house until the 17th century, and agricultural buildings there remained in use by local … while in the 16th and 17th centuries many leading clothiers, woolmen, and fullers were sheep farmers on a …