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A History of the County of Buckingham
… and retains but few of its original features. The King's Head Hotel is a house of 15th-century origin which was … to be bailiff of Ivinghoe, which had come into the king's hands by the forfeiture of Wolsey, who was Bishop of … holding good. 20 Bishopric of Winchester. Gules St. Peter's keys crossed saltirewise with St. Paul's sword in their …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… being held of the several archbishops by knight's service. Accordingly it is entered in the survey of … a grant of it from archbishop Lanfranc, to hold by knight's service, and his descendants, from their interest in this … sixty marcs to the king, to have the custody of the king's houses at Westminster, and of the Fleet-prison, which had …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… is said to have conveyed them to the abbey with the king's consent. 13 According to another spurious charter the next … 30 hides in Longworth. 14 The boundaries of both Eadwig's and Edgar's grants are defined as reaching to the Thames on the north, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… until its surrender in 1539. 3 The names of Walter's successors in the 12th century and early 13th have not been … was subtenant to Richard Poure, holding half a knight's fee of the old enfeoffment, of him. 7 He presented to the … of John, son of Thomas de Oundle, probably Gregory's grandson, 10 who held it of John Marmion by homage and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of those parishes. Dr. Gale, in his Comment on Antoninus's Itinerary, says, Roman monies has been dug up in this … described under the general title of the bishop of Baieux's possessions, as being held of him: Hugo de Montfort holds … among the rest of his possessions, came into the king's hands. How it passed from thence, I have not found; but in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of only the manor farms of Polton and St. Radigund's, of about forty acres of land, owned by different persons, … among the rest of his possessions, came into the king's hands, whence the seignory of it was granted to Geoffry, … mentioned as owners of it in the register of St. Radigund's abbey, as is their descendant Robert de Polton, who in king …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 17th century. The present rectory, formerly the bailiff's cottage, lies to the east of Shaw House, and some portion … round it and crowned by a pediment carved with a lion's face. In the frieze below the pediment is cut the … off it is a small mezzanine chamber called the priest's room. The room in the south wing over the former dining …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… one of the towers still retaining the name of Rosamond's tower, where the tradition is, that fair mistress of king … was called, as has been already mentioned, Fair Rosamond's; and it is suppoted she was kept here some time before her … called from a new inn built there in king Henry the VIIIth's time, near which there is a small hamlet built on the road …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, the king's half-brother, under the general title of whole lands it is … it continued till the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, when William Haut, esq. of Bishopsborne, conveyed it … p. 214. See Philipott, p. 158, 315, and more of the Herdsons and Dixwells, under Folkestone and Barbam. …
A History of the County of Worcester
… hood, supported by wooden brackets, carved with a cherub's head and floral swags. The main staircase, a good example … there is a chapel belonging to the Countess of Huntingdon's connexion. A Congregational mission hall was erected in … at the foot of which flows the Teme. Near it is Black's Well, where there are extensive quarries of red sandstone. …