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A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their … introduction of peers such as Edward Henry Lee, earl of Lichfield, and James Bertie, Lord Norreys, became an accepted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The … favour of the king's son-in-law Edward Henry Lee, earl of Lichfield. 25 The earl was a minor until 1684; and his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One … king's books at 13. 6. 0., and in the gift of the Earl of Coventry: the tithes have been commuted for 153, and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of … s. 11 d. payable to the vicar, and 81. 4. to the Bishop of Lichfield. Wootton WOOTTON, a township, in the parish of … of Warwick, 3 miles (N.) from Warwick, on the road to Coventry; containing 360 inhabitants. This parish comprises …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, … the parliament. These, being afterwards joined by Lord Coventry with some troops of horse, and expecting further aid … towards Droitwich, and advanced to assist in the siege of Lichfield. The citizens sent messengers for directions to the …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… 1203 (Innocent III, Cal. Letters no. 472). Sampson Can. and treas. of Bayeux, and king's chapl. (Will. Malmesbury, G.P. p. 289; Regesta 1 … 402).] Walter de Grey Royal chanc. from 1205. Bp.-el. of Lichfield 1210, 1213. King orders Worcester el. to take …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… ten canons, all of whose prebends were in the king's gift, and were always referred to by their numbers. 1 A few months … diocese, north-east Warwickshire was transferred from Lichfield diocese to that of Worcester, and the archdeaconry of Coventry was annexed and united to this diocese (taking …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. … whose hands are hereto subscribed being the churchwardens and overseers of the poore and other inhabitants of the … did put up a petition to the right honourable the Earl of Coventry with all our names that are hereunto subscribed to …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… see the conquerour made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two … Stafford, duke of Buckingham, and died in the city of Coventry the fourth of the kalends [it should be ides] of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the village, comprises 4627 a. 11 p. of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; the soil is fertile, producing good crops of wheat, barley, and oats. The village is beautifully situated on elevated … net income, 295; patron and appropriator, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was rebuilt in 1595, and again in 1832. …