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Magna Britannia
… Halwell and Hendraburnick, held formerly under Launceston Castle, and the manor of Tremeal, partly in this parish and … brother of John Arundell, the brave defender of Pendennis-castle. This Thomas settled at Tremoderet, and purchased, not … in the reign of Edward IV., speaks of a dilapidated castle, called Bodleit 15, near Sir John Coleshill's mansion, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Strabolgies, earls of Athol, and owners of the honor and castle of Chilham, one of whom was probably the builder of … who was head customer of Sandwich, keeper of Rochester castle, and had been esquire of the body to king James I. He …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… passed into the hands of Robert de la Mare, 4 the lord of Castle Holdgate (co. Salop), probably coming to him by his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… county. Not long after the Conquest it acquired a large castle. 23 In 12756 Deddington was called a borough, and in … Deddington probably had no more than 30 or 40. With its castle in ruins, its pretensions to urban status fading, … have been further east, in the area between the church and castle. The main road into the town from the south, which now …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of Benjamin Moyer, married John Heathcote of Connington Castle, 98 and their daughter, another Lydia, inherited the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… it has descended with the manors of Yardley Hastings and Castle Ashby (q.v.). A capital messuage here in which John …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Grays Inn, the son of Sir William Whorwood, of Stuiton castle, in Staffordshire, his arms, Argent, a chevron, … of this parish, which, in the antient records of Dover castle is numbered among those estates which made up the … for Wortley Whorwood, son of Sir William, of Sturton castle, bart. lord of this manor, and patron of this church, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… consisting of twenty-four knights fees, to hold of the castle of Dover in capite by barony, by the performance of … caput baroni, or head of the barony, and he erected a castle on it, as was usual in those days, every part of which … in capite by barony, and the repair of a house in Dover-castle, called, from its possessors, Saye's-tower. 10 His son …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Henry II. 13 The event probably took place before Bedford Castle, 14 possibly when Henry invaded England in 1153. 15 In …
A History of the County of Hertford
… for some time previous to his death farmer of the king's castle and manor of Hertford, where he had executed extensive …