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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was apparently granted to a member of the de Tancarville family, hereditary chamberlains of Normandy in the late 11th … 1325, 172 and it clearly continued to descend in the Bacon family. John Bacon held the land in 1397. 173 Thomas Bacon … above). In the 13th and 14th centuries members of the Cok family presumably held the freehold farm in Upavon called …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… claims. It was in very early times in the possession of a family, who took their name from it. Lucas de la Gare was … the church. It seems formerly to have been possessed by a family of its own name, one of them, Stephen de Horsham, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… later to the Yongs of Petworth, in Sussex, 11 and this family were still holding in 1629, when the estate was made …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… the site of the dwelling-place of the Capons, an important family of Upleatham in the Middle Ages. The name survives … In the 12th century this manor was in the holding of a family named Argentein. William de Argentein in 1166 held a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the park and grounds of Shuckburgh Hall, the seat of the family of that name. The layout was considerably changed in … the cousin (son of a sister of the grandmother) of John Hastings (died 1389), 24 whose family had acquired an … tenancy in Shuckburgh by the marriage of Henry de Hastings with Joan de Cantilupe, the elder sister of George …
A History of the County of Worcester
… manor of Upper Arley. 64 It originated in land held by a family named Hexton or Hekstane, probably as early as the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… last Duke of Buckingham of that creation, to whom the family honours were restored in 1485, suffered a like fate in … of the Normans in Upper Clatford had passed to the Sandys family, probably before Richard Becket's death in 1411. … that had belonged to Mottisfont Priory. 87 The Sandys family continued to hold their estate in Upper Clatford for …
A History of the County of Bedford
… otherwise TEWELSBURY, originated in the land held by the family of Tivill under Ramsey Abbey in Upper Gravenhurst. The … to Ramsey Abbey. 16 The manor remained in the Grey family, whose descendant, Lord Lucas, holds it at the present … near land which belonged to Joscelin de Stivecle. 18 This family evidently held this capital messuage from the abbey, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Hertford. Of them the manor of Hardres was again held by a family who assumed their surname from it; for in the record … the IId.'s reign, it was held in like manner by the family of Garwinton, whence it was sold to Clarke, and at the … which is as long as the church, is the burial place of the family of Hardres, where are several monuments and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Warren as her dower. 56 There is no further record of the family's tenancy. Isabel, Countess of Aumale, survived all … 1620 to 1648. 68 Then for a century and more the yeoman family of Merry leased the manor: Gabriel, son of Gabriel … figure. Families, however, had changed more; only one family name, that of Tanner, appears in both the medieval and …