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A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… boundary at its north-western end, where its highest point is at 100 m., to the Thames at its south-east end, … parts of Rainbold's estate, were apparently resumed by the Crown, and in 1133 they were granted by Henry I to … its dissolution in 1539, when the manor passed to the Crown. 6 In 1540 the Crown sold it to Sir Anthony Hungerford …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… to Tewkesbury abbey (Glos.). 23 The manor passed to the Crown after the dissolution of Tewkesbury abbey. 1 In 1548 … 1550, 3 Leigh was not apparently among them and remained Crown property until the early 17th century. 4 Sir Anthony Hungerford (d. 1558), became lessee under the Crown of the manor of Ashton Keynes with Leigh in 1538, 5 and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… and of Chadderton's. 10 Braydon forest was inclosed by the Crown in 1630, 11 and by c. 1650 the owner of Webb's wood and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… Despenser family in 1326, the manor was confiscated by the Crown. Around that date John of Meysey petitioned the King … in 1331 revealed that he had sold it to Despenser and the Crown retained the manor. 2 Marston Meysey manor passed with the crown until 1564 and generally formed part of the Queen's …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… The boundary follows Derry brook from its most easterly point to the southern tip of the parish just north of … Dissolution, Cirencester abbey's estate was sold by the Crown and became known as Minety manor. In the 18th and 19th … Henry I gave the manor to Cirencester abbey, but the Crown retained certain rights, including the right of pleas …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… an escarpment running south and east from its highest point, 144m at Pavenhill, on which the village High Street, … a resource exploited in different ways by the abbey, the Crown, the manorial lords and their tenants; their various … in 1539, the abbey's demesne manor had reverted to the Crown, which in 1544 granted it, together with the rectory …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… of that time, pursued and drove the matter to that point, that the Duke of Lerma, finding no Evasion, disclaimed … Conditions should make it desperate; but if the Demands in point of Religion were no more than what would satisfy …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… and upon the Nineteenth of September had the Imperial Crown set upon his head. Ambassadors from the Elector … the advice of King James, touching his accepting the Crown. The Count Palatine Elected King of Bohemia, craved … it did not please him, that his Son should snatch a Crown out of the fire: And he was used to say, That the …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… him, what ruine was like to follow him by taking another's Crown; and for his own part, being called upon by the … make this a War of Religion, which he would never do. In point of Honour; for that when he sent his Ambassador into … of Peace, in the interim his Son in Law had taken the Crown upon him. And for Example's sake; holding it a …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… the Dictator, against Quintus Maximus; who being upon the point to be sentenced, was, by the intercession of some … extend to the relief of the old Debts and Duties to the Crown before the first year of your Majesties Reign, to the … resolution, following evil counsel, to take to himself the Crown of Bohemia. "And that this is true, himself wrote …