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A History of the County of Stafford
… time) and burgesses the right to hold the town at a fee-farm rent, payable annually to the king's bailiff at Newcastle. 9 That payment of the fee-farm rent did not ensure freedom from external interference … 12936 the mayor and community, while they had claimed to farm the borough for 40 marks, renounced this right and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… trustees invested part of the funds in the purchase of a farm at Knutton. 14 In 1715 dissension arose over Henry … of the school in 1825 were reported to consist of a farm at Knutton (48 acres), a close at Knutton (2 acres), a … invested was 2,673. The mineral rights of the Knutton farm were by this date providing a valuable additional income …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the same distance to the west; and Newsteads, a fourth farm, is a mile and a half to the south-west. The township is …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… insufficient for the numbers of livestock on the demesne farm. Between 1278 and 1296 the priory took leases of parcels … college, parcels of demesne land and some of the farm buildings at the priory precinct were leased out. 13 … holdings, they included good-sized farms: in Malswick one farm, apparently that later called Rymes Place, had 92 a., …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… hill, and Madam's wood to Upleadon, and at Layne's Farm, Red hill, and Leachford (formerly Lydenford) to Rudford … as Mesne (Mine) wood, and a smaller part adjoining the farm called Black House as Jordan's grove. 2 That Jordan's … and 1286, 15 for that name, which survives at Tedgewood Farm in Upton Bishop (Herefs.), appears to have been used in …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… local landowners, for example Thomas Hooke of Crooke's Farm, in Pauntley, in 1581 and Randall Dobyns of Walden Court …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Westbury-on-Severn, contributed to the one night's royal farm. Soon after the Conquest it passed to the abbey of … abbey and the prior of Newent for the payment of a farm. 2 Manor and priory were again seized by the Crown at … fighting in 1324 and returned to the prior for an annual farm of 130. 3 They were once more forfeit from 1337, the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Hooke, presumably of the family that owned Crooke's farm in the part of Pauntley parish adjoining Newent, held … the north side of the NewentRoss road opposite Brassfields Farm, in 1876. 6 In 1882 the church at Clifford's Mesne was … in a tent or in the open air. Later they met at Ravenshill Farm, to the north of Clifford's Mesne, and from 1932 in a …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… a pre-Conquest site. 2 West of the church the domestic and farm buildings of Newent priory, from which Cormeilles abbey … (or the Hill), Reeces, and Tallys, the house and small farm belonged to John Curtis in 1539 and was sold in 1595 to William Rice (or Reece). He enlarged the farm and sold it in 1597 to Walter Nourse, whose heirs and …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… chief lord of much of the parish, owner of a large demesne farm, and rector of the parish church. Its local … local reputation was Timothy Nourse (d. 1699) of Southends Farm, theologian and writer. 1 His nephew and … Land Settlement Association estate founded at the Scarr farm in 1937 organized its own social activities in the mid …