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A History of the County of Shropshire
… 84 Hamon granted it to his younger brother Robert before they left on Crusade in 1271. Early in 1273, when Hamon's … Joan Child held a carucate in Orleton in chief in 1393-4. They were allowed to have a private oratory in their house in … In 1655 the rectorial tithes were worth £120 a year. They were then said to be in Richard Steventon's possession, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… lofty steeple of the church of Wymondham, of which town they were both natives. In the reign of Mary, Richard …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… to the livestock. About 45,000 sheep are reared annually: they are chiefly of the Cheviot breed, with about 1200 or … chief are some oak-trees on the West Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than for the … spruce firs, intermixed with ash, elm, larch, and birch; they are well managed, and in a thriving condition. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 83 After the Lenthalls acquired both farms in 1904 they rearranged their estate so that Manor farm (302 a.) … The first lease to the Bakers has not been found, but they were tenants by 1768: O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. d 560. Cf. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… were deposited in a costly urn, and sent to Rome, where they were placed in the sepulchre of his ancestors. … was the seat of commerce and of literature, as far as they then prevailed in the country. During the Danish … of it till Atheistan demolished the castle which they had erected for their defence. In the peaceful times …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… the surviving defences were gradually restored, and they are now maintained by the Corporation with public access … E. and between their area and the bridge of the bailey. They were to enclose it with an earth wall up to 12 ft. high … to the lane leading to the mills near the castle provided they replaced it with another lane of the same size. 19 These …
Survey of London
… Westminster and the City of London, to deal with as best they could for the succour of the Holy Land, and to redeem … in the evening the company repaired to York Place, "where they sat down to a most sumptuous supper, the like of which … torches. "All these maskers daunced at one tyme, & after they had daunced, they put of their viziers, & then they were …