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The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … same year, to Sir Thomas Roe 9. After the death of Dame Eleanor Roe his widow, (which happened in 1675,) it was sold … tomb; nor is there any memorial for him at Woodford 37. Eleanor, his widow, was buried Dec. 6, 1675. "Rowland, son of …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the … (d. 1644), the traveller and diplomatist. 35 Rowe's widow Eleanor held the manor until her death in 1675, 36 after … Rayhouse to John Hatfield, a London vintner, and Eleanor his wife, to whom William Ripton also released his …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 … a., was settled in 1768 on the marriage of John Plumer and Eleanor, daughter of Richard Morton. 83 Thomas Coppard was … Poynings (d. 1446), who was succeeded by his granddaughter Eleanor and her husband Henry Percy, 11 from 1455 earl of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … Joan, wife of Roger Pym. Joan held jointly with her mother Eleanor who married secondly John Davy of Bridgwater. 5 By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … manor 16 by William Paynel (d. 1184), passing to his widow Eleanor de Vitr, countess of Salisbury, on whose death in … the hundred by charter, custom, or usurpation. 21 In 1232 Eleanor, countess of Salisbury, was trying, apparently …
A History of the County of Essex
… had been taken by Raymond Girald and was held by Roger of Poitou who held manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. … it to William de Munfitchet and thereafter the manor of WORMINGFORD HALL was held of the barony of Stansted … was given small amounts of land in Wormingford by Queen Eleanor, and Matthew Gernon, and Robert, son of William of …
A History of the County of York
… It has been said 1 that the earliest liturgical traditions of the north were closely linked with Rome: this is perhaps illustrated in the beginnings of Anglian Christianity at York when Paulinus baptized Edwin … were translated in the presence of Edward I and Queen Eleanor. 38 The statutes made in 1294 ordered that the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… N.E. (c)xxvii. S.W.) Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of All Saints, about 2 miles N.E. of Brill, is built of rubble, that in the walls of the … probably late 17th-century; on S. wall, tablets (4) to Eleanor, daughter of Richard Grenville, 1688; (5) to Richard …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and … 63 Shrewsbury abbey claimed the church itself as a gift of Roger, earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1094). 64 Dependent chapels, … estate in Wrockwardine that had belonged in 1650 to Eleanor, widow of Thomas Salter (d. 1623) and daughter of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk outcrops … Isabel Waleran (d. 1284). 80 In 1289 it was held by Queen Eleanor for Isabel's son John Waleran, an idiot. 81 John died …