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A History of the County of Oxford
… Castle CASTLE The castle was built for the king by Robert d'Oilly in 1071, 1 and was owned by the Crown … Christ Church, 3 already owners of the site of St. George's-in-the-Castle. The college leased the site to Oxford … fortfied it for the Empress Matilda in 1138; in 1140 King Stephen's constable, Robert d'Oilly, declared for the …
A History of the County of Essex
… to Eudes the sewer. 11 It escheated to the Crown on Eudes's death in 1120, and remained in the king's hands, although held intermittently by hereditary … for the period 1173-4, during the rebellion of the young king, when Ralph Brito seems to have been constable. The …
A Dictionary of London
… the east side of Aldersgate Street, next to London Wall (O.S. 1894). In Aldersgate Ward Without. First mention : "The … Robert Fitzwater, Castillon and Banner bearer of London (S. 367). So named of an old Castle there (S. 364). See … by H. VI. to his College in Cambridge, called now the king's Colledge. Also a mill belonging to the 'Templars (S. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… the parishes of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, St. Benet Paul's Wharf and St. Gregory by St. Paul's and parts of the parishes of St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish … has been removed. Monuments: On E. wall(1) to Gregory King, Rouge Dragon, 1712, draped white marble cartouche …
A Survey of London
… vp to the south east gate of Powles churchyard, and by S. Austens church, is of this ward. About the midst of this … was also another tower by Baynards Castle, builded by King Edward the 2. Edward the 3. in the 2. of his raigne, … Templars of the new Temple, as appeareth of record: for King Iohn in the first yeare of his raigne, granted a place …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… the Somerton road west of Clanville and passes Fulford's Cross to become Mill Lane and continues as Woodcock Street … the parish church. The castle was successfully besieged by King Stephen's forces in 1138 but Ralph Lovel submitted and … the Crown. When civil war broke out he supported the king but managed to reduce his composition in 1646 by …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Presumably their houses had been granted to Walter by the king. 12 Walter was succeeded by Ralph Lovel, probably the son or son-in-law of Walter's son Geoffrey, 13 and Ralph's son Baldwin. Ralph Lovel, successor to the last, held Castle Cary against King Stephen in 1138. In 1147 the castle and possibly the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… demanded a new fire engine in 1896 and later. 13 Both Boyd's and Donne's factories had fire engines which assisted at a major fire … Records, 160725, 197. Records lost since 1938: J. E. King (ed.), Som. Parochial Documents (1938), 845. SRO, …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Cary - Religious History RELIGIOUS HISTORY CASTLE CARY'S religious history is dominated by the parish church. … the parish. In the 1780s the front bore paintings of King David, a coat of arms, and two carved antique but … 383/106, 504. H. C. Maxwell-Lyte (ed.), Register of Bishop King (Som. Rec. Soc. 54), 212; Bishops' Registers, 5. TNA, C …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in a southwesterly direction; the road to Lichfield, 'the king's highway' of the Middle Ages, later turnpiked from Radford … four days after the death of Thomas Earl of Stafford, the king appointed his own esquire William de Walsall as …