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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton, and Wylye. 3 Stockton, a possession of St. Swithun's priory, Winchester, was transferred to Elstub hundred, … 12th century, 33 but in the 13th that hundred was the king's. 34 A tourn for Branch and Dole hundred was held at … V.C.H. Wilts. viii. 194; below, Tilshead, manors (Tils-head S.); local govt. Tax List, 1332 (W.R.S. xlv), 769; for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Honiton, hundred of Colyton, Honiton and S. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (E.) from Sidmouth; containing … and romantic. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 18. 15. 10., and in the gift of the Dean and … a skirmish took place between the Lord of Fowberry, at the head of 100 cavalry, and a party of Scottish infantry, who, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Most of the cultivated land was let by the abbey for 100 s. a year to a monk named Eadric, who possibly held it on … for the period from Candlemas (2 February) to St. James's day (25 July) as the holme was common for the rest of the … beans and potatoes were grown on 10 ha. There were 711 head of cattle and 161 sheep and lambs. Of the 11 farms …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Christ Church and the other by a curate from St. Modwen's, in Burton. Having secured grants from the Lichfield … Branston was added to Burton borough in 1878 St. Matthew's mission church in St. Matthew's Street was opened from St. … marquess of Anglesey, 13 June 1853 (with inclosed letter-head showing design of ch.), and Thos. Landor to Thos. Beer, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burton and Lichfield over the stream marking Branston's southern boundary existed by 1395. It was a county bridge … southern stretch of the road in Branston beyond the Gate inn was replaced in the late 1960s by the A38 bypass, from … Branston township. Near the southern boundary Robin Hood's ford, so called in 1546, was presumably part of a route to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Branston Manor Manor In 942 King Edmund granted an estate at Branston to Wulfsige the … 14th century 16 was evidently associated with the abbey's grange at Shobnall in Burton Extra, but it later became … for the loss of pasture rights, annual payments of 5 s. were awarded in 1500 to the churchwardens of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1836. A meeting-house was erected by Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, in 1825; and there is also a national school. … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 16. 17.; net income, 227; patrons and … annexed to that of West Knighton, and valued in the king's books at 15. 4. 2.: land and a money payment were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Brasenose Hall, who died in 1508, bequeathing 6 13 s. 4 d. towards the building of 'Brasynose in Oxford, if such … to the college by Sutton in 1519 included the White Hart Inn in the Strand; a set of rooms was reserved for the use of … when senior and junior fellows united in a petition to the king to avert financial ruin by ordering a visitation of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… the much earlier Brasenose Hall and Little University or King's Hall. The Old Quadrangle was begun at this date, but the … outer archway has cusped spandrels in a square head; it is fitted with the original oak doors in two leaves …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Marble which gives way on the lower slopes to Fuller's Earth interspersed on the west with a band of limestone. 7 … minors on succession and the manor was held by Isabel, the king's eldest daughter. 35 Richard Seymour, Baron Seymour, … secured a hide of land partly in Bratton by duel in the king's court 40 in a suit against Robert of Lovington and …