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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Stumpe. It passed to Sir Henry Knyvett and in the Howard family with the earldoms of Suffolk and Berkshire. 100 In … the Moleyns and Hungerford families and to members of the Hastings family, earls of Huntingdon. An earl of Huntingdon … part of which was sold in 1571 with Boakley farm by Henry Hastings, earl of Huntingdon, to Anthony Webb and in 1593 by …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… made more eminent from its affording a surname to a family of good rank in these parts, who resided at it; one of … possessors of it, and they were succeeded by the Idens, a family of great antiquity and good estate about Iden, in … to the crown, of which it was afterwards held by a family who took their surname from it; one of whom, John, son …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to 390 in 1831 was attributed to the absence of a large family and to the fact that people had left the area for lack … 81 In the 18th century lessees, including the Tugwell family who acquired a lease in the second half of that … sold it immediately to Thomas Horton, members of whose family had formerly been tenants. 93 On Thomas Horton's death …
A History of the County of Worcester
… fabric and transforming it into the principal seat of the family, whose former house at Hampton Lovett had been …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 17 conveyed Wexham in 1610 to Edward Woodward, 18 whose family had owned land in the neighbourhood for at least four …
A History of the County of Surrey
… king of the French, his queen, and many members of his family, whose bodies were removed to Dreux in 1876. In 1881 … down the house built by George Payne, a friend of Warren Hastings. 67 A new house has now been built, the property of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… held. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries the Kent family 44 (co. Wilts.) held Blissmore Hall, but by the early …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is the only farmhouse outside the village. The Lucas family were victuallers in Whaddon in the early 18th century, … the fee by 1428, 83 presumably for life, since the Turpin family continued to hold Turpins manor until the 17th … whom from the 17th century to the 19th were the Moule family. 157 The demesne of Chalers manor was leased in 1593 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… held both of the honour of Trowbridge and of the Mortimer family. Humphrey de Whaddon's son and heir was Michael who … or about 1320. Whaddon remained the property of the Holt family at least until 1351. 21 No connexion has been found … on his petition, in 1554. 37 In 1555 Whaddon passed to the family of Long who have retained an interest in the estate …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Queene under it.' 15 After the property came to the Selby family, and eventually to the Lowndes in the latter part of … father, took the name of Selby, afterwards resuming his family name of Lowndes by licence. 66 He was one of the … of the park came, with that of the chase to the Giffard family, 89 as in 1541 Elizabeth Pigott claimed it as an …