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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … Society, established under the patronage of the late Lord Napier, and which holds a triennial meeting in this … Murray, senator of the College of Justice by the title of Lord Elibank; Dr. John Rutherford, pupil of the celebrated …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field … held 2 knight's fees at Yatesbury, including 1 of a mesne lord, Walter son of Bernard. 31 By 1249 the manor had passed … (d. by 1654) on her marriage to Charles Seymour (from 1664 Lord Seymour, d. 1665), and it descended to Mary's daughter …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Burton-in-Kendal; containing 322 inhabitants. … to Sudbury: Earl Ferrers is a considerable owner, and the lord of the manor. The common laud, about fifty acres, was … whose descendant, K. J. W. Lenthall, Esq., is the present lord of the manor. It comprises by measurement 313 acres, of …
A Dictionary of London
… Ch. Bundle 68, file 12, No.333) (quoted in N. and Q. 11th S. 3, p.243). Not further identified. Yeuan (St.) See Audoen … York Abbot of London residence in parish of St. Peter Paul's Wharf, sometimes called the "Abbot of St. Mary of Yorkes … (Lond. I. p.m. III. 147). Given by Henry VIII. to Thomas lord Wriothesley, 35 H. VIII. (Dugdale, III. 540). Belonged …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Yelford by 1221. 99 In the later 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors 1 and the living remained a … was sold in 1984. 14 In 1254 the living was valued at 20 s. (corrected to 26 s. 8 d.), 15 in 1291 at £2, and in 1341 … Hardwick's fields. 25 A house and yardland held from the lord by the rector in 1279 as a freeholder for 10 d. a year …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 together with Yelford … to the subsidy of 1523-4 was John Hastings, resident lord of Yelford manor, assessed on goods worth £40. 41 By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… part of Yelford, and suit was paid to Bampton manor, whose lord had waifs, strays, and felons' goods in Yelford: there … tenants of the former Grey manor paid suit to Hardwick's courts, 89 which until the 1580s nominated a separate … until inclosure in 1853, tenants of Wadham College's Yelford estate, descended from the Grey manor, were still …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 40 a. given before 1279 to Robert Pogeys by the lord of Yelford. 14 Walter also held Eaton Hastings (Berks.) … in Gloucestershire, notably Southrop. 15 Later Walter's Domesday estate, sometimes described as the honor of … succeeded by his son John, a minor, who was recorded as lord of Yelford in 1346. 25 In 1428 the rector of Edington …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; containing 148 inhabitants. This parish … of its coroner, and pays all fees and fealty to the lord of Ogmore manor. The area is 332 acres, of which 30 … become mere farmhouses. The Marquess of Westminster and Lord Mostyn are among the chief landed proprietors, and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Yetminster 100 YETMINSTER (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XI, S.E. (b)XXI, N.E.) Yetminster is a parish and village 4 m. … busts of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Dominic and the Supper at Emmaus, probably fragments of communion rails. …