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Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at … Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum … the Leyburns of Skelsmergh. John Layburne was bailiff and steward, 162838; and apparently lessee by rentals of 163841. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… economic life 1500 to 1800 ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by … twenty) appointed for life. The honorific office of High Steward was held usually by lessees of Witney manor. Ordinary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney c.1800-1900 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WITNEY, c. 18001900 During the … absorbed Westell and Son before 1920. Westell served as steward of Witney manor and as solicitor for the vestry, his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of … 1750s rebuilt the former manor house, served as manorial steward for the duke of Marlborough and as clerk to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured … toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited … and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff or steward through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was conterminous with the later manor and parish, … to the local solicitor James Gray (d. 1791), then deputy steward of the manor court, who seems to have largely rebuilt …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 miles … is vested in an alderman, seven capital burgesses, a high steward, recorder, and town-clerk; the alderman, high …
A History of the County of Essex
… and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might … In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the … woodland. 35 Seven acres of assarted land was granted by Eudes the sewer (d. 1120) to St. John's abbey. 36 In 1395 …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge … were elected; the court was usually held by the lord's steward, Charles Gray, or his deputy. By that period the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… William Abbot for 21 years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of the priory lands at … demesnes to William Charlton (d. 1567), the priory's chief steward at the time of the Dissolution. 90 Thereafter the …