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A History of the County of York
… reputation. Adam le Cerf, twice mayor, bought land from an idiot and quickly sold it again before the validity of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in Pendle Forest. It was alleged that he was a 'natural idiot or sot,' but the jury found that he had sufficient …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Middleton, and Tottington; Ralph, his son and heir, was an idiot. On Ralph's death in 1538 it was found that he held a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Ralph, the son and heir, aged forty in 1521, had been an idiot from his birth, and his uncle Rawlin, brother of James, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… v, 4258. Dict. Nat. Biog. Aikin (1795) says he was an idiot, 'of whose simplicity united with a natural shrewdness …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… mad, and seized the estate himself; but according to 'the Idiot's curse' the lands soon passed away to strangers. 48 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… (son of John), aged seventeen years in 1539, and an idiot; he had sisters Anne and Alice, aged nineteen and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1, file 3, no. 70. Robert son of Sir Robert was called an idiot, and his third part of the manor was taken into the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… his brothers and their heirs; Richard, the eldest, was an idiot; 34 Christopher, who married Margaret one of the …