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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… into a free royalty. On the attainder of the Douglas family in 1455, the lands became forfeited to the crown, and … stones, pointing out the spot where seven brothers of that family were killed. A portion, also, of Elibank Castle still … the massive walls of Dryhope Castle, the seat of the Scott family, are entire. To the west of the church is a spot …
The Rulers of London 1660-1689
… 1687, 1690 (6) See Vis Wilts, 1623, pp 220-1, for the family of Yerberie of Trowbridge (1) CRO, MS 40/3, Boyd …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Tanner, his son J. A. C. Tanner, and other members of his family to trustees of Charles Harris (d. 1871) of Calne. 11 … south of the Avenue was bought by members of the Pickford family and added to Upper farm, Cherhill. 55 In 12423 Henry … bell was replaced by one cast by a member of the Cor family in the late 17th century or earlier 18th. In 1773 a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to have been possessed in the reign of Henry VIII. by the family of Lawrence, who held the manor of "Yeland-Redmayn" as … Wednesday in every month. Kitley, the fine mansion of the family of Bastard, contains some of the most valuable … in the king's books at 20, and in the gift of the Cripps family: the tithes have been commuted for 500, and the glebe …
A History of the County of Oxford
… burials in Yelford; 6 in the 16th century the Hastings family, despite rebuilding Yelford church, had its tomb at … held by Philip Hastings in 1221, descended in the Hastings family with Yelford manor until 1651; 11 John Bablake, who … sold it with the manor house to B. Babington Smith, whose family retained it when the house was sold in 1984. 14 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 together with … in Yelford, but in the later Middle Ages the Hastings family acquired Boys wood ( c. 72 a.) on the northern edge of … Isabel de Grey's Standlake manor. 35 In 1328 the Yelford family's estate in Yelford, of which parts belonged to three …
A History of the County of Oxford
… while the inclosed estate, held entirely by the Hastings family, was assessed independently; disputes with Hardwick's … estate, acquired some open-field land with the Walwyn family's Yelford estate in the mid 16th century. 63 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as the honor of Hastings, was held by the Hastings family for 5 knights' fees, of which the Oxfordshire portion … 16 Walter was probably a direct ancestor of the Hastings family, 17 of which, in Yelford, the earliest recorded … manor in 1221, was apparently of a junior branch of the family: certainly his successor Miles, probably his son, held …
A History of the County of Oxford
… has been found. 62 Several generations of the Baker family, tenants of Manor farm from the 1760s to c. 1820, were …