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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… defeated and captured at Boroughbridge, and beheaded at Pontefract. His relict Alice, in July of the same year, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Bayeux, 148 and later became part of the honor of Pontefract. Another estate there, assessed at half a hide, …
A History of the County of Bedford
… in 1711, 40 and in 1722 was created Earl of Pomfret or Pontefract. 41 He suffered a recovery of the manor in 1720, …
A History of the County of Bedford
… V, who was his nephew, and was in consequence beheaded at Pontefract by order of the Duke of Gloucester without any …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York, 2 miles (S. W.) from Pontefract; containing 254 inhabitants. The township …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… II. after his deposition, and previously to his removal to Pontefract, where he was murdered. During the great civil war …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1660, B.A. 3 July, 1660; M.A. from New Coll. 1663 (as Pontefract), rector of Shipton-uponCherwell, Oxon, 1675; …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… of Lancaster, which had been carried on before the King at Pontefract, was ordered to be publicly read and recorded, by writ dated from York, 6th May, 15 E. II. The process at Pontefract was taken on the Monday before the Annunciation of …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… de Langeford (Longford) and Nicholas her son, Richard de Pontefract, Robert Nicholesman and Henry his brother, and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… town in Yorkshire, after which it was named, is now called Pontefract. It was the centre of the production and …