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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… place, which takes its distinctive affix from Gilbert de la Ley, its proprietor in the reign of Henry II., was … An hospital for five lepers was founded by Gilbert de la Ley, of which the only memorial now remaining is a pointed …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… and one day, who died 16 August, 1 Eliz. and left his Fortune to his brother Francis, second son of this Henry, 18 … &c. The walls and ceiling were painted, I am informed, by La Guire. The rooms, in general, are on a grand scale, lofty … wholly of stone, and must have cost the owner an immense fortune. The stone it was built with, it is said, came from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century by Thomas Howell (d. 1764), a man 'of independent fortune', whose son Thomas owned it in 1765; it was altered …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 95 The tenant in 1086, Wighen, was ancestor of the de la Mare family which held 3 knights' fees in Woodditton until …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Goscelin atte bridge mentioned in 1239. 8 Alan de la Burgate belonged to an extensive family which held lands …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… an ecclesiastical district, in the union of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, partly in the parish of Ashbyde-la-Zouch, hundred of West Goscote, county of Leicester, and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was held of Lewes rape in 1279 and later. 97 William de la Mare held land at Wick before 1189. 98 In 1267 Stephen … Woodmancote, possibly the same, in 1282. 1 In 1315 John de la Mare of Garsington (Oxon.) died seised of Sands manor, … in Fulking, together with the hamlet of Wick; 2 the de la Mare family in the 13th century had been lords of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a royal servant. 60 In 1450 it was confirmed to Alice de la Pole (d. 1475), dowager duchess of Suffolk, daughter and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… as three assarts containing 40 acres in Woolbeding and la Niwode, for the acquisition of which by Alice, then …