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A History of the County of Berkshire
… a life estate of their English interests to Sir Lewis de Clifford in the reign of Richard II, and this was passed on …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Stock; the dividends are distributed annually. Rebecca Clifford, by her will dated 19 Jan. 1719, gave a yearly …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Thomas Earl of Lancaster, Henry Lord Percy and Robert Lord Clifford, in May lodged Gaveston at Scarborough, he himself …
A History of the County of Warwick
… died 11 July 1649, aged 66. (6) Francis Watts of Rine Clifford, 1691. (7) Anne, wife of last, 1704. There is also a … as owner of the great tithes. The great tithes of Ruin Clifford were held in 1611 by William Combe, his mother, … The smaller parcels consisted of the privy tithes of Ruin Clifford, of Clopton and Bridgetown, of Luddington and of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in 1941, but have since been rebuilt. The mill at Ruin Clifford, on the Stour, is first mentioned in the reign of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… on their march from Naseby to the west, was encamped at Clifford and quartered in the town. 17 Cromwell was here, … 93 Ten years later a reference to an iron mill at Ruin Clifford indicates a further extension of the works. 94 The … Ibid. 122. The Town Clerk was probably Henry Dighton of Clifford, who held office 165969 and 167787. Ibid. 120. P.C. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Dodwell, Drayton, Bishopton, Clopton, Welcombe, Ruin Clifford, and Bridgetown, besides the isolated hamlet of … 4 By 988 the eastern portion of this land appears as Ruin Clifford, which extended along the left bank of the Avon from … of a bridge here occurs in 1235, when John son of John de Clifford confirmed a grant made by Alice his mother to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, granted 2 hides in CLIFFORD to his servant Wihtelm for 3 lives in 966, 132 and 3 … Ethelweard in 988. 133 In Edward the Confessor's time, Clifford was held freely by one Saward and in 1086, when it … 14th century, had come to be known as the manor of RUIN CLIFFORD 135 at various dates down to 1560; 136 and the …
A History of the County of York
… originally of a motte, on the site of the present Clifford's Tower, 2 a keep upon the motte, apparently of … date from at least 1250. 12 On the side of the yard facing Clifford's Tower the old wooden palisade was retained and not … approached by a drawbridge. 14 The keep, called since 1596 Clifford's Tower, 15 stood to the west of the castle yard. It …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1415, where it was introduced by Bishop Richard Clifford, a former canon of Salisbury, and at a steadily …