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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … here, upwards of seven centuries; one of them was a baron of the exchequer in the reign of Edward IV. Wolsingham … are held every Tuesday; and a court leet and baron, under the bishop as lord of the manor, takes place …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… The seat of the Right Honourable Henry Willoughby, Baron Middleton, is situate about two miles west of … ownself best." I saw an old carbine, in the house-keeper's room, very curiously wrought in figures, doubtless one of … of Queen Ann, Anno Domini 1711, raised to the dignity of a Baron of England by the stile and title of Thomas Baron …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held in demesne. The manor descended with the rest of Roger d'Ivri's lands in the county and in the early 12th century was held … 1616 sold the manor to Sir John Walter of Sarsden, chief baron of the Exchequer. 65 Walter settled the manor on his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … to the peerage in 1782, by the title of Lord Grantley, Baron of Markenfield. There are two places of worship for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … let to Horton by the lord of Shifnal manor, the 8th Baron Stafford, in what was becoming the centre of the town. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Records of Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the … though their parents paid no education rate. The town's principal street, Market Street, was under two highway … levels; street traders could evade the sanitary inspector's jurisdiction by crossing it. Ten authorities had local …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … Inner Temple, 1718, bencher 1733, serjeant-at-law 1733, baron of exchequer 1739, judge of king's bench 1740-55, … re-created 22 June, 1660, a judge of common pleas 1654-60, baron of the exchequer 1670, and knighted 28 June, 1670, a …
The Environs of London
… free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, … Alderman of London, 1625; Anne, wife of Thomas Holbech, S. T. P. daughter of Patrick Melvill, 1666; Richard Bayly, … name of Reverend Father Archangel of Hastiville, Abbot and Baron of the vale of Holy Cross; Prior of Beaulieu, General …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … to crenellate the manor house in 1337 and 1377. 36 A court baron was still being held in 1863. 37 In 1226 the manor was … centuries. 118 In the middle of the 19th century courts baron for Woodford and courts leet for the halfhundred, …
A History of the County of Essex
… court. He claimed that, because of the annual payment of 4 s. to the exchequer, and references in the great roll of 1287 … the jurisdiction of Woodford Hall manor court. 6 A court baron was always combined with the court leet but as many as three more courts baron might be held during the year. The surviving parish …