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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Chewton, E. division of Somerset, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Pensford; containing 145 inhabitants. It comprises … pursuing through it, in 1648, the Scottish army under the Duke of Hamilton, whom he had driven from Preston) until …
Alumni Oxonienses
… of Thomas 1627. See Ath. iii. 178. Widdowes, Jervis s. Tho., of Northleach, co. Gloucester, p.p. Gloucester Hall, … studied at Oxford, a soldier of fortune under the duke of Alva; a colonel in the French and Belgic wars, … chaplain to the army in Flanders, sub-tutor to William, duke of Gloucester, canon of Westminster 1695, canon and dean …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Freebridge-Marshland, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Lynn; containing 625 inhabitants. The parish is … in 1322; and during the civil war, in 1648, the van of the Duke of Hamilton's army was quartered here. Wigton consists …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Rockingham; containing, with part of the … to Stamford. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 17. 1.; net income, 187; patrons and … king's books at 18. 7. 1.; net income, 250; patron, the Duke of Bedford. The tithes were commuted for land in 1811; …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… and Horses. 15 The first, usually called the Blacksmith's Arms, stood on the main road at the east end of the village … Nevilles, and after the partition of the earl of Warwick's estate in 1474 to the duke of Gloucester. 33 It was later accounted for along with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxfordshire holdings of Odo, bishop of Bayeux. 4 On Odo's fall Wilcote, among other manors, was granted c. 1100 to … granted by the Crown in 1485 to Jasper Tudor (d. 1495), duke of Bedford, 24 and in 1514 to Thomas Howard (d. 1524), duke of Norfolk. 25 Thomas was succeeded by his son Thomas, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at 7. ]0. 5., and in the gift of the Messrs. Salter: … of an old Hall, the seat of the maternal ancestors of the Duke of Cleveland. The living is a perpetual curacy; net … patrons, the Inhabitants: the tithes, which belong to the duke, have been commuted for 640. The chapel, dedicated to …
The Environs of London
… either gave or confirmed to the church of St. Paul's ten manses at Neosdune, with the manor of Willesdune 2. … all the rebel army; and for w h distinguished action the Duke of Argyle, then General in Chief in Scotland, returned … of the rebellion under Lord Cadogan, who succeeded the Duke of Argyle in that command. In his private character he …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of oats and sheep, sent oats and hay to the college's hospice in London, and also yielded wheat, cows, and oxen. … 71 On the Oxgate estates woodland formed 15 a. of Tanner's estate in 1675 but had entirely disappeared by 1755, 72 30 … estates were those of All Souls College (491 a.), the duke of Buckingham (452 a.), the prebend of Mapesbury (319 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1454 and 1465. In 1480 Roberts and the others, at Careley's request, enfeoffed William Page of Harlesden, who in 1495 … (d. 1768) married James Brydges, who later succeeded as duke of Chandos. 36 The Brydges estate was enlarged by the … Hawkins's, from Lydia Hawkins, in 1771. 38 In 1787 the duke, who did not live in Willesden, had an estate there of …