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A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to … without the bailiffs' leave, and for affray and false hue, together with concords, settlement of debt cases, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but no Witney townsmen seem to have been implicated, and in 1577 only five recusants were reported there. 2 Among … Tempest family lived at Witney in the early 17th century, and in 1641 Francis Rathbone, one of a recusant gentry family … women, including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next … Henry the firsts time, at the foundation of Lenton Priory; and Adam de Moretonio, 2 22 H. 2. gave account of xxx marks …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) … the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some … at night seasons (by [illegible] those of his own family cry out murder [illegible] are alwayes possessed with fear by …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES. In … John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were said to be held …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Vaenor Isav Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 … situated near the turnpike-road from Pembroke to Narberth, and comprises a small extent of land, all inclosed and cultivated. Culm is found in some parts of it, but it is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … comprises 1912 acres, of which 836 are arable, 800 meadow and pasture, 10 woodland, and 177 common, roads, and waste. Many of the women and …