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A History of the County of Oxford
… 75 presumably from tolls collected there for Godstow's fair. About 1540 it was called Stone Bridge. 76. The bridge … famous from the late 12th century by its association with 'fair Rosamund' the daughter of Walter Clifford and mistress …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to forty persons. Charles II. granted a market and fair to be kept at Shimley-Green, in the parish; the former … into disuse, and the latter dwindled to a small pleasure-fair held on the 11th of June. The manor-house of Tangley, … of bone-lace. The market, which was held on Friday, and a fair on the festival of the translation of St. Edward, were …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Richard: on the said Robert de Stretleys seal within a fair circumscription of his name, upon a large shield, is, … to those of Orton, but being worth little or nothing a fair church is unsupplied. Upon the top of the out-side of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which belonged before the Norman Conquest to Eddeva the fair and in 1086 to Count Alan 94 became the manor of DITTON …