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A History of the County of Stafford
… in the north-west part of Alstonefield parish. 95 When Sir George Crewe first visited Quarnford in 1819 or 1820, it … marks principally of Poverty, Sloth, and Ignorance'. 96 Sir George was probably responsible for improving c. 1840 the … built to the north-west at the home (now Bradley Howel) of John Bradley. 4 The tollhouse was replaced in 1842 by a house …
A History of the County of Stafford
… ran some distance west of Warslow village. In the 1820s Sir George Crewe began to lay out a new line to run along the … date was changed to the Sunday nearest the feast of St. John the Baptist (24 June), the patron saint of the church. … 87 Warslow Hall, north of Warslow village, was built by Sir George Crewe in 1830 principally for the agent of his …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… appear to have lived there. In 1508 the parish was sold to John Spencer of Wormleighton, Warwickshire, and by 1577 most …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… marble slab with arms; in middle of chancel, (2) of John Haskett, 1730, Purbeck marble slab. In tower, (3) of … Thomas Haskett (d. 1744), who inherited it from his uncle John Haskett (d. 1730), an eminent Salisbury apothecary. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… de Pierpoint and Robert de Alvanley, who sold it to Sir Philip de Orreby; and it came by marriage, in the reign of Henry III., to the Arden family. When Sir Richard Pepper Arden, master of the rolls, was created a … Hall, in the parish. A free school was endowed in 1616, by John Grove, to whom is a monument of brass on the floor of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. c. 1557), taxed in 1542 on goods worth 35, and his son John, lessees of the demesne farm and of Black Bourton … Awards to Earl Harcourt (136 a. for Shield farm), John Lenthall (90 a. for Ruxhill farm), and William Bolt (97 … and in 1861 three shepherds and a dairy maid. 93 By 1881 John Nalder farmed over 550 a. and employed over 20 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the mid 18th century, and in the early 19th the lawyer John Kenn (d. 1830) 98 added a plain, ashlar-faced range … was acquired for a nominal sum, probably from the lord John Gwynne. 156 Before then the school was housed possibly … Oxon. I, 412; Oxon. Fines, p. 77. Bampton Hund. 54, s.v. John Laurence; Edington Cart. p. 153. Edington Cart. pp. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the manor was held by Robert's daughter Hawise, wife of John de Ferrers. Before 1316 she married Sir John de Bures of Boddington (Glos.), and in 1330 they … until the Dissolution. 21 In 1540 Alvescot was granted to Sir Anthony Hungerford (d. 1559) of Down Ampney (Glos.), and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… vault on the chancel's north side, perhaps that in which Sir William Ashcombe was buried in 1627 88 and which had … 100 but only Protestant Dissent was recorded later. John Saunders of Butlers Court was associated in the 1660s … to 1500, IV, 851; PRO, SC 2/208/40, m. 2d., mentioning John atte Halle. Cal. Pat. passim. Reg. Sutton, III (LRS 48, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Alveston farmers, Thomas Jackson of Alveston Pasture and John Higgins of Bridgetown, for their zeal for improvement. … and Ralph Browne of the Inner Temple, 46 agents for Sir Ambrose Cave, to whom they sold it for 1,007 a few weeks … On Greville's death in 1589 his estates passed to his son Sir Edward Greville, 49 who is afterwards referred to as …