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A History of the County of Oxford
… of Adderbury they were bought in 1533 for 162 from William Fermor of Somerton by John Claymond, President of Corpus …
A History of the County of Oxford
… uninhabited in the early 16th century, when William Fermor built a new manor-house on another site, but the … in the castle yard was still standing in 1580 when Thomas Fermor bequeathed it for use as a school. There is a … the new manor-house, built early in the century by William Fermor on a new site south-east of the village and near the …
Magna Britannia
… 11 Jane Lady Killigrew was daughter of Sir George Fermor, Knt., of Easton-Neston, ancestor of the Earl of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lord St. John, who sold it in the same year to William Fermor of Somerton (d. 1552). 176 Fermor, who was childless, left Nethercote, after the death of his wife Elizabeth, to his nephew Jerome Fermor, who had succeeded by 1575. 177 In 1612 Sir Richard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Shipbrook for the manor and nearly 300 acres to William Fermor of Tusmore; 200 acres to William Ellis; and about 100 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hearth tax of 1665, when the only taxable house was Henry Fermor's mansion. 12 There is no visible trace of the hamlet … this medieval building was still standing when Sir Richard Fermor came to live at Tusmore in about 1625. 17 He or his … it is known that the 17th-century house for which Henry Fermor returned nineteen hearths for the tax of 1665 was …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… for the reception of his bride, the beautiful Arabella Fermor (the Belinda of 'The Rape of the Lock'), whom he … who died in 1736, married the celebrated beauty, Arabella Fermor, the heroine of Pope's 'Rape of the Lock,' 48 and in …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Brooke of Madeley, Shropshire, and Helen the wife of Henry Fermor of Tusmore, Oxfordshire. 51 On the death of Sir George … Anthony Browne, with his cousins Winifred Brooke and Helen Fermor, was dealing with it in 1688. 53 Sir Anthony died …