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A History of the County of Gloucester
… BLEDISLOE HUNDRED In 1086 Bledisloe hundred comprised Awre manor and its former members of Bledisloe, Etloe, and Purton … c. 19 hides. 1 Most of the later Lydney parish, as a manor of 12½ hides formed between 1066 and 1071 from four … hundred. 7 Etloe Duchy, a tithing of Awre that became a manor of the duchy of Lancaster in the 14th century, 8 was in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… stop-chamfered beams. ConditionGood. N. side b(5). The Manor Farm, 190 yards W. of the church, is of two storeys, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient royal hunting reserve granted with Woodstock manor by Queen Anne in 1705 to John Churchill, duke of … the king's houses (sometimes called the royal palace or manor house of Woodstock), demolished soon afterwards. 21 The … 6", Oxon. XXVI (1876 and later edns.). Below, Woodstock Manor; King's Hos. Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, 128; 1300-26, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the high ground overlooking the Glyme opposite the old manor house the palace was evidently aligned to provide a … on the longest axis possible, also bypassing the ruined manor house which Vanbrugh wished to preserve. It seems … few years. The lower of the two causeways to the former manor house was built up to create a large, shallow lake, 5 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… before 1086 when woodland attached to the nearby royal manor of Wootton was said to be in the king's enclosure ( in … 33 the park was usually administered with Woodstock manor, whose keepers or bailiffs accounted directly in the … gate and a gardener, were paid 2 d. a day. 36 When the manor and park began to be let at farm in the 14th century a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 44 Later, as the administrative centre of Woodstock manor, the king's houses were usually known as Woodstock Manor, although also called Woodstock castle 45 and, by later … Eleanor in 1306. Although from the early 14th century the manor was granted to queens in dower or was held by farmers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Woodstock manor Woodstock Manor. The medieval king's houses and park at Woodstock formed part of a conglomerate royal manor. Woodstock manor and its members, sometimes described …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The borough received the elective franchise in the … family it passed to the Greys, who continued to hold the manor for upwards of 400 years, until the attainder of … containing 356 inhabitants. Before the Conquest the manor was in the possession of Harold, afterwards king of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… acre of medow. and that here was likewise soc to the Kings manor of Maunsfeld, as much as paid the geld for one carucat. And also as much soc to the Kings manor of Bodmescill. Yet this was the seat of Roger de Busli … called Wetcroft in Blith, & 2 cultures or wongs of the manor of Hoddesak, and a close called Stubbing, also tythe …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… meadow, &c. In King Edward's time there belonged to this manor 43 socmen, (who could not sell or grant their lands,) … one leuca and one furlong; paid gelt 30 d. Almar had this manor with his wife, before he was a bishop, and held it … lands, together with the patronage of the church. The manor had court baron, and lete, which, with the patronage of …