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A History of the County of Bedford
… 'fortunate Houghton,' and later as Houghton Regis or King's Houghton, to distinguish it from the parish of Houghton … Its annual yield was 10 of weighed money, half a day's provisions of grain, honey and other things pertaining to the king's farm, 65 s. for small dues and a pack-horse, the same …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Hill are marked by the Bronze Age monolith known as Dun's Stone (Dinneston in 1187) 7 and by a stone known in the … 1822. 18 In contrast, farmsteads called Nuttons and Paul's Guys, both in the north part of the parish on the high … St. Mary (in Lydeard St. Lawrence). 39 In 12845 Henry's barony was described as held of the queen, 40 and in 1292 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… called Clay field, and in 1738 the lord of the manor's tenants were said to have the right to dig clay from the lord's claypits to repair copyhold tenements. 9 Sheep have been … times, when it received its present name meaning Icel's farm, 16 and by 1086 there were 43 tenants in the parish. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… south are the hamlets of Up End, where stands St. John's Church, a chapel of ease to the mother church, erected in … and in 1254 the capital messuage was taken into the king's hands for the time being until a suitable arrangement … to hold for life and entered into possession on the earl's death in the following year. 17 In 1337 he obtained an …
A History of the County of Essex
… in 1769, was cut along the course of the river on Latton's northern boundary. 30 The Northern and Eastern railway line … probably united in the 11th or 12th century with the abbey's manor of Harlowbury in Harlow. 40 The abbey does not appear … 1184, 1197, and 1201 was Ralph of Latton holding 1 knight's fee. 47 In 1236 the fee was held by William son of Richard, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in Linwood and the bailiwick of Linwood for a rent of 60 s. 1 At some date prior to 1271 Peter de Linwood gave all his … of pannage and herbage without interference from the king's officers. 3 In the early part of the 14th century Edmund de …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… whose father, John Russel, had custody of her father's lands, 7 and Hawisia, first to John de Botreaux 8 and … 13th century Ralph Russel was overlord of half a knight's fee in Little Kimble, held of the heir and fee of … however, another John, held the overlordship of one knight's fee in Kimble at the time of his death. 22 He left two …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… demesne land for two ploughs; it was then worth 4 10 s., having had a value of 6 in the time of King Edward. 3 The … 11 In 1239 the manor was leased to Thomas, the abbey's porter, for seven years at a rent of 20 payable to the … the infirmary. The grant excluded yearly tallage, sheriff's aid and hundred aid with ward peny and other customs due to …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of the valley and the steep wooded rise known as St. Anne's Hill, which overlooks the town from that direction. The … Luton Hoo parks to the south and on the slopes of St. Anne's Hill to the east. To the north and north-east the chalk … have running powers over the Great Northern Company's line from Leighton Buzzard. The Great Northern Railway has …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… appearing probably as Cotes. Near the Cottons is Ford's Farm, and about a mile away to the west, Tithe Farm and … the Domesday Survey (1086) the Countess Judith, Waltheof's widow, held it. 9 The overlordship passed with the earldom … granted to John le Daneys, probably his brother, a knight's fee, being all the lands in Offord which had formerly …