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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Manor. Glos. Colin. prints 3.1 (Adlestrop church by la Motte, 1790); Shakespeare Libr., Stoneleigh MSS. ser. B, box …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Adwell to feoffees and the manor had been conveyed to John Motte, who was probably acting, as was his custom, for John … iv. 2745. Adwell deeds, no. 3; C.P. 25(1)/190/21/41. For Motte see Boarstall Cart. index. Ibid. 2312; V.C.H. Berks. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… are the remains of an Iron Age hill-fort with a Norman motte and bailey superimposed at the south-east end. 13 There …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… whose stone foundations survived in 1807, surrounded a motte up to 3 metres high. The type of fortification is …
A History of the County of Hertford
… in the usual way by a timber tower on top of the mound or 'motte,' which was surrounded by a moat. There was a bailey to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… topographical feature of Brinklow is the very fine motte-and-bailey castle crowning a slight hill just east of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… pp. 300 and 301), which seems inaccurate: cf. view by La Motte, 1790, and watercolours of 184751 and 1853 in scrapbook … penes Mr. Leigh. Views in scrapbook penes Mr. Leigh. La Motte's view of 1790 (scrapbook penes Mr. Leigh) shows the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the manor to William Cheyne, kt., John Aston, and Geoffrey Motte, in trust for himself and his heirs, 'in order to … was afterwards conveyed to John Hall, 20 while Geoffrey Motte remitted his to the other trustees. 21 Thomas St. Clere …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the north-west slope of the eastern ridge. A two-acre motte, surrounded by a wet moat 25 ft. deep, had to the … recorded in 1331 and 1371 83 presumably stood within the motte. Probably in the late 15th century a four-storey brick … so called in 1470, 353 stands north-west of the castle motte, is built of flint with stone dressings, and comprises …