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A History of the County of Oxford
… Aston and Cote Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Aston and Cote … more were common, some larger ones incorporating freehold, copyhold, and leasehold under more than one owner. There were … sold. Exeter cathedral received 176½ a., mostly held by copyholders in trust but actually leased at rack rent. 35 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Aston and Cote Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The lord of Aston Pogges claimed courts baron and views of frankpledge in 1279, though then and later … court, electing rival officers, extracting covenants from copyholders that they would not recognize the Sixteens' …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 8 ploughs were employed on the demesne at Avening, 17 and the same number of ploughs, each with 8 oxen, was in use … sheep-farming; only 4 ploughs were used by the 1170s, 19 and c. 1200 it was said that there ought to be 8 demesne … 7½ yardlands. 27 Widows had right of freebench, and copyhold tenure, usually for three lives, survived into the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Avening Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. An estate at Avening formerly belonging to … from the manor in 1651 to William Adams, the former copyhold tenant. The estate, later known as SUMMERWELLS, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 16 km. south-west of Gloucester between the river Severn and the Forest of Dean. The large parish contained seven … estates, numerous ancient farmsteads, the industrial and trading village of Blakeney which replaced Awre village … side and slightly higher up the hamlet. That inn was a copyhold under Etloe Duchy manor and was the meeting place of …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… PARISH, which lies east of the Fosse way between Ilchester and Shepton Mallet, comprises the village of Babcary to the … partly encircled by the river Cary, the hamlets of Higher and Lower Foddington on low hills to the east, Steart on the … of the land (846 a.) was held on lease, only 62 a. being copyhold. On Pury manor, c. 344 a. of leasehold land was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In the Middle Ages (perhaps from the 12th century) and until 1905 it formed, with the adjoining parish of … outlying houses. Badger Heath Farm, centre of the Heath copyhold estate enfranchised in 1662, stands in the … the northern boundary; both had gone by 1808. 7 In 1594 copyholders had held in yardlands or half-yardlands since …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Buildings BUILDINGS. 46 A cruck-framed cottage north of the churchyard was mentioned in 1440, 47 and the discovery of encased timber frames in some surviving … north end of Weald Lane, originated as the farmhouse for 3 copyhold yardlands on Bampton Earls manor. 73 From the late …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. AGRICULTURE. In … of a large unitary estate which cut across later field and township boundaries, 38 but by the 14th century and … of former customary land was leasehold by 1549, 45 but copyhold grants continued in the late 17th century; 46 in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Introduction BAMPTON AND WEALD THE townships of Bampton and Weald, together c. … the former chapel at the Beam, from the 17th century a copyhold cottage, 34 and the farmsteads and cottages along …