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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… this manor, which is held of the manor of Swanscombe by castle-guard to the castle of Rochester. CHARITIES. A PERSON UNKNOWN gave to the …
Magna Britannia
… The Bishops of Exeter had, at an early period, a castle here, which William of Worcester speaks of as … the Great and Little Dennis, or the Great and Little Castle. The latter became the site of a small fort of the … in Cornwall that held out except the Mount and Pendennis Castle. Vyell Vyvyan, Esq. of Trelowarren, has some MS. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… style. It has an open timber roof. The builder was Joseph Castle of Oxford. The painted glass of the east window in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the 1st Lord Brooke had acquired and restored Warwick Castle in the reign of James I. The last member of the family … from this time the manor of Alcester was held as of Elmley Castle. 121 The moiety of the manor of Alcester which Peter … of Alcester of William Savage as of the manor of Elmley Castle. She left as her heir her son Fulke, then aged 20. 139 …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Hund. loc. cit. Dr. Fernie's Notes from MSS. in Kimbolton Castle. Hist. Mon. Com. Hunts, 12. There are bequests to the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… farmstead called Hillwood, north of Stock Lane. Lewisham Castle, east of Stock Lane Farm, is a circular medieval … were built. Between the junctions with Back Lane and with Castle Street and Marlborough Road, the lower part of Stock … line the western side of the street. There were houses in Castle Street in the 16th century 51 but most surviving …
A History of the County of Hertford
… as we find that Robert Kendale, constable of Dover Castle, had a grant of free warren over it in 1318, 135 and … of the earl of Clarendon. The house was then called Sly's Castle, being on or near Sly's Hill. 193a It was sold in 1818 …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… they continued down to Thomas Digges, esq. of Chilham castle, who in 1724 passed them away by sale to Mr. James … Heron, esq. of Newark-upon-Trent, afterwards of Chilham castle, and he that same year sold them to William Deedes, … abbey, was in very early times constable of Saltwood castle, in this neighbourhood. After this name was extinct …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In a petition of 1644 to the governor of Banbury castle, about his house in Banbury, he wrote that he had …