Search
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… and services due from the Abbot's freehold in Clyve and Drayton. Ralph and Matilda demanded the service of half a … Abbot and his successors that seventeen of their men of Drayton and the Vicar of Drayton might have estovers in their wood of Thyrlegh. 37 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Charities for the poor Charities for the poor …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Church CHURCH Possession of the advowson of Fen Drayton was much disputed during the Middle Ages. The church … 70- 80 marks a year, including probably 10 marks for Fen Drayton. 34 Sawtry abbey presented at least three rectors …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY All the 10 hides … pasture was already important. 81In the 13th century Fen Drayton was still dominated by its resident freeholders, an … grass money of 2 d. due from each commonable house. 91 Fen Drayton was commended c. 1630 for its excellent meadows by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Education Education Schoolmasters were recorded in … 20th century income from his bequest still assisted Fen Drayton young people when studying. 56 The curate started a … Bd. of Educ., List 21, 1927, 16; 1936, 17; 1938, 19. 'Fen Drayton Local Plan' (1973): copy in Cambs. Colln.; cf. Camb. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Introduction FEN DRAYTON THE parish, 2some 13 km. (8 miles) northwest of … and so belonged to Huntingdonshire. 6 The soil of Fen Drayton lies in the south-east upon Ampthill clay, in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Local government Local government In 1279 Richard of … evidence has been traced of manorial courts held in Fen Drayton itself in the later Middle Ages. About 1590 the men of Fen Stanton claimed that most Fen Drayton tenants owed suit to Lord Berkeley's court at Fen …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Manors and other estates Manors and other estates . … her successors as lords of Swavesey had any demesne in Fen Drayton, 63that vill was nevertheless reckoned a member of … 64In 1548 Henry Carey, then lord of Swavesey, sold his Fen Drayton manor with 200 a. of arable besides grassland to John …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen Drayton Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY In the 1650s some women …
A History of the County of Stafford
… on the site in 1921, the gift of Margaret Hudson of Market Drayton. It was still in use in 1940, 284 but by 1960 the …