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A History of the County of Sussex
… in the manor hall, 38 seems to have been hereditary in the family of Parker in the 14th century, 39 and its holder in … next found in 1546 in the hands of John Smith, 57 in which family it descended. A John Smith who died seised of the … had passed into the hands of Thomas Peckham, in whose family it descended. Mary, daughter of John Peckham who died …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the monks of Darley by Sewall, ancestor to the Shirley family: Queen Elizabeth granted it to the Hardwickes, whose … cruciform building, called Liveden, erected by the Tresham family, and richly decorated with sculpture, especially round … supposed to represent different members of the De la Beche family, and to have been executed in the fourteenth century. …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Arms was owned at the end of the century by the Taylor family's Northleach brewery. 80 It may have been the village … Charles sold the estate in 1766 to John Waine, 114 whose family had held a lease of it since at least 1717. 115 John … from the owners of the Williamstrip estate to the Waine family in 1767, 141 and in 1793 Lord Sherborne was lessee. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Alkekengi [alkakeng] A plant, Physalis alkekengi in the family of Solanaceae. It is also called winter cherry, from … berry of the Allspice tree, more properly Eugenia pimenta (family Myrtaceæ). OED online earliest date pf use: 1621 Found …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Mortain. 1 By 1234 overlordship had passed to the de Mohun family 2 who, with their successors the Luttrells, held it as … Tillard (d. 1933) 6 and it was the home of the Balmain family. 7 Admiral George Thring, nephew of J.H. Thring, … several landless cottages, each usually occupied by one family. 18 A lease of a 161-a. farm in 1812 required the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… rich in its details, and contains monuments to the Beridge family since the time of James I. The parsonage-house has a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… to them, together with numerous minor gifts by the De Port family of Mapledurwell. 8 The church of this priory, the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… a thirty-three years' lease of Appledurcombe to Sir James Worsley. 4 Priors of Appledurcombe 5 Hugh, in the time of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… has been suggested that the new prior was possibly of the family of Thomas Foxley of Bramshill, the constable of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… temporalities at Sotwell, Berks, which was held by the family of De Port under Hyde Abbey. 3 And in 1316 the prior … his house had received an early endowment from the same family. That the house had received benefactions from other …