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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of the peace for the county of Worcester assembled in sessions. Wee whose hands are hereto subscribed being the … inhabitants of the parish of Saint Clement lyeing part in the county of Worcester and part in the city of Worcester … to pay charges neither to maintaine her selfe and family humbly prays this honourable court to take into …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of the inhabitants of the chapelry of Lower Mitton in the parish of Kidderminster in the county of Worcester Sheweth That the chapel of Lower Mitton in this county is a very ancient building and now in so …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the justices of the county of Worcester assembled in sessions The humble petition of Charles Faulkner keeper of … the said prison having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present salary so inadequate to the … the distresses of his disconsolate wife and small infant family the hardships and sufferings of your petitioner and …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… & RADFORD. Elsi before the Norman invasion had two manors in Werchesope, which paid to the geld as three car. The land … following at Crokesden, amongst her ancestors of, the family of Verdun founders of that place. 39 Her son Thomas de … was begun to be built by George earl of Shrewsbury, (whose family pedigree is substantially related above by Thoroton) …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… steward of it for the Conqueror, who retained the manor in his own hands. Roger de Montford also possessed an estate … are known at the present day. A branch of the ancient family of Duke was afterwards long possessed of this manor. … of Suffolk, in 1835, and is descended from an ancient family in Ireland; Sir Archibald Acheson, Secretary of State …
A History of the County of Essex
… they were patrons. 45 Cardinal Wolsey dissolved the priory in 1525 and granted Wormingford church to his college at Oxford, and his school at Ipswich. 46 On Wolsey's fall in 1529 the church reverted to the Crown, and in 1532 Henry VIII gave it to the abbot and convent of …
A History of the County of Essex
… continued to hold 2 ploughs, suggesting a slight increase in the area under cultivation. The 19 sokemen had 2 ploughs. … including several to William Lynne who was building up his family estate. 71 From the late 14th century until the beginning of the 18th the Waldegrave family of Small- bridge (Suff.) and their relatives owned …
A History of the County of Essex
… cut through fields. Detached fields totalling 15 a. in Little Horkesley, 34 were transferred to that parish in … later building, was formerly called Cooks, after the Cook family recorded in the early 13th century. 67 Rochfords in … in the 16th cent- ury, presumably after the Maidston family recorded in 1411. 75 At the centre of the east front …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. In 1328 free warren was granted on Wormingford Hall manor. 25 Courts leet, recorded for Church Hall manor in the 15th century, handled transfers of holdings and … failing to clean ditches and repair boundary marks, taking in lodgers, keeping an unlicensed alehouse, allowing animals …
A History of the County of Essex
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. A manor in Wormingford assessed at 1½ hides and 10 a. was held in … The demesne tenancy of the manor descended in the Poynings family, through Michael who held it in 1303, 2 Thomas (d. … in 1742 to Samuel Tufnell of Great Waltham, 11 in which family the Wormingford Hall and Church Hall estates remained …