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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in. (a)XII, N.W. (b)XII, S.W.) Folke is a parish 3 m. S.E. of Sherborne. The church, Manor House, West Hall and Font le … the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical a(1) Parish Church of St. Lawrence stands in the N.W. corner of the parish. The … Notley, 1797, William Notley, 1837, and William, their son, 1841, black and white marble wall monument by G. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter) FOLKINGTON ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Eastbourne, hundred of Longbridge, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 18 … A small Gilbertine priory was founded in the reign of Henry III., by Sir Robert de Fordham, as a cell to the great …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… parish, covering some 3,200 acres, occupies a narrow strip of land extending E.-W. across the Chalk escarpment. The E. extremity, on the dip-slope beyond the top of the escarpment, falls eastwards from 700 ft. to 420 ft. … and Lord's Prayer: In tower, four canvases, inscribed 'Richard Bishop, John Bennett, Ch. wardens, 1817'. …
The Environs of London
… river Cray, and from Godwin Fot, its owner, in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Situation. Boundaries, extent, &c. … seised of the manor of Foot's Cray in the year 1292 3. His son Roger appears to have had only a moiety of it; the other … of S r Thomas Josslen, Kn t, buried Sep. 11, 1605." "Mr. Henry Sherlye, grandchild to the right worshipful S r Thomas …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Ford FORD The parish of Ford, 37 which in the 20th century gave its name first to … owed 40 days' castle guard at Arundel castle. 14 Savaric son of Cane was granted Almnches abbey's estate c. 1102, 15 … Robert Southwell had a moiety of Ford in 15078. 22 Sir Henry Owen, son of John's other daughter Mary, was dealing …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at first to the royal manor; in 1285 it was claimed that Henry de Kemesek, lord of half the manor, had presented a clerk to it under King … and St. Nicholas, to which in the 13th century John son of Robert of Fordham gave all his Fordham lands, 63 was …
A History of the County of Essex
… and 1533 when the king presented. After the ownership of the manor was divided in 1543 the patronage alternated … appointed regularly. 53 The earliest re- corded rector was Henry in 1198, dean of Lexden, who in 1204 employed a curate. … who served until 1646 and later became an Independent. 67 Richard Pulley, his successor, signed the Testimony of Essex …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… £10 by tale, by 1086 blanch, besides a three-day food farm of wheat, malt, and honey. That farm had been converted to a cash payment of £13 8 s. 4 d. by 1086, when the manor's ten ploughlands, … 17th. 64 One who died in 1563 left his freeholds to one son, leaseholds and copyholds to another. 65 They …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. In 1299 the prior of Fordham, already in 1279 entitled to his tenants' fines for breaking the assizes of bread and of ale, 84 successfully claimed under a charter of Henry III, presumably one covering the whole order of …