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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (b)XLV, N.W.) Wormbridge is a small parish, 8 m. S.W. of Hereford. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Church of St. Peter or St. Thomas, stands in the E. part of the … figures of saints, including Peter, Paul, Edmund the king, Catherine, an apostle ?, Stephen and five crowned female …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S.) … A free grammar school was established and endowed by Lady Catherine Berkeley, under letters-patent from Richard II., in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred of South Bradford, N. division of Salop, 2 … who was buried in the church, and his sister, Mrs. Catherine Macauley Graham, author of a History of England, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … Crown in 1539. 13 In 1541 YARLINGTON was granted to Queen Catherine Howard (d. 1542) and in 1544 to Queen Catherine Parr for life. 14 In 1547 the reversion was granted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's transferred the advowson to the Charles Wolfson …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates … between William's sisters Jane, Constance, Elizabeth, and Catherine. 76 Three shares were bought in 1695 by Sir Robert …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex; … the manor was settled by Henry VIII. on his queen, Catherine, who held it till her death. In 1449, an accidental …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; … 8 per annum, is still distributed among the inmates. Mrs. Catherine Vaughan founded a house for six poor aged women at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… YIELDING, or Yelden ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from … the Virgin and the Infant placed under the crook, given by Catherine of Portugal, Queen Dowager of England, to her … of York and Ripon, cost several thousand pounds. St. Catherine's hospital, formerly a house for the reception of …
Survey of London Monograph
… thought that York herald was originally the officer of Edmund of Langley, created Duke of York in 1385, but the first … co. Gloucester; husband of Garter Wrythe's eldest dau. Catherine and probably related to his third wife Anne Mynne. …