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A History of the County of Essex
… rectangular parish, except where a change in the river's course by Boxted mill has left c. 11 a. on the northern … the parish was sold for building before 1938 when the new King George V playing field and pavillion on 16 a. of land … refused to contribute to the cost of improving the King George V pavilion in 1963 because it no longer catered …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 326 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 18. 12. 3., and in the patronage of George … was increased, in 1721, by his descendant, Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, to 36. The poor law union of Brackley …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 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 … incumbents held Boxworth until 1754 for a fellow of King's, who took the profits and actually did the duty. 33 …
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 Pain's successor, William son of Roger, under Stephen de Scalers, …
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 … king's books at 7. 1. 10.; patron and appropriator, the Bishop of Ely: the appropriate tithes have been commuted for …
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. … lights in a 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 …
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 … were defeated with great slaughter. In 706, Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, founded an abbey at the place, which he …
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 … de Vaux for life. 78 In 1310 Vaux exchanged it with the king's cook Richard of Cleobury for the keeping of Kinver …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1 It was stated in 1255 that the Abbess of Shaftesbury's 'foreign men' of Bradford hundred formerly did suit twice a year at the hundred of Melksham, but that in the time of King John the abbess had withdrawn the suit and attached it … of Bradford was granted to the abbey of Shaftesbury by King Ethelred at the same time as the manor of Bradford …