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A History of the County of Bedford
… seized and imprisoned at Bedford, and in the siege of the castle that followed the Dunstable people came in for great … carts for the carriage of his materials for Berkhampstead Castle. 195 During his tenure of the manor of Sundon the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… as of the honour of Peveril London and for ward at the castle of Dover. 4 This service, described as grand serjeanty …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… P.R.O., REQ 2/79/3. W.R.O. 490/1126. Ibid. EA/147. Alnwick Castle Mun. X.II.11, box 6, survey, 1634, p. 186. P.R.O., CP …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Aumale 81 of which his ancestors held their seat at Castle Bytham (Lincs.). 82 Under Roger the local preceptor of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… in 1401. 42 It then followed the same descent as Elmley Castle, passing into the possession of Henry VII in 1487. 43 …
A History of the County of Northampton
… a gabled front dated 1686. The village is 1 miles north of Castle Ashby and Earls Barton station. On the village green … valley below, 85 and occupies part of the site of a mote castle, or mound fortress, the ditch of which remains on the …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… was founded in 1152 by Roald, constable of Richmond Castle, for canons regular of the Premonstratensian order, … John Stanhope. 57 The manor descended among the Scropes of Castle Bolton (q.v.) until 1630, when Emanuel Scrope Earl of …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… held of the successors of the Bruses as of Kilton Castle 23 and Skelton Castle respectively. 24 The family of Rosel were … the knight's fee 'in Easington and elsewhere' of Chester Castle in 1272. 32 A Geoffrey Maucovenant was joint tenant …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of soldiers from time to time, for the defence of Dover castle, in which there was a tower called Turris dei inimica, … king in capite by barony, by the tenure of ward to Dover castle for the defence of it. Of him and his heirs it was … of Easling manor, called Huntingfield, held of the castle of Chilham; soon after which it became the property of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… de Tonebrige, as well from his possessing that town and castle, as from his residence there; and his descendants took …