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A History of the County of Lancaster
… mesne lord, William de Heaton, was said to hold it by the old rent of 3 s., 15 but in 1346 the immediate tenant only … contains some oak furniture and carvings formerly in the old church at Grimsargh. BROCKHOLES, as already stated, was a … was afterwards agreed upon, by which the former had Old or Higher Brockholes and the latter New or Lower …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was recorded as holding the oxgang of land by the old rent of 3 s. in 1258. 11 Geoffrey son of Peter de … manors, &c. His heir was his son John, only nine years old, but already married to Isabel daughter of Sir Charles … in 1742, added a new building on the west side against the old outer wall which had been retained in the rebuilding, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the township, though the land is only a fourth part of the old assessment, for in 1297 the vill of Haighton was found to … by 6 d. rent. George his eon and heir was seventeen years old; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 49. a In 1329 Roger … &c., in Preston. His son and heir William was eight years old; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. xviii, no. 6. William Wall died …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to collect this due or to make distraint for it. From the old court rolls it appears that money found on a drowned man … his story, with the addition that his aunt Cecily in her old age and infirmity had desired it to be known that he was … him a messuage and lands upon the waste of Hale, near the Old Barn yard, and a fishery in the Mersey called 'the Heegh …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Halewood HALEWOOD This township lies between the old course of the Ditton Brook on the north and Rams Brook on … A continuation of this road, which seems to be the old path from Liverpool through Childwall to Hale, has … 5 There are court rolls at Knowsley. The remains of the Old Hutt consist of a threestory gatehouse facing north-west, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… have stone slates. Almost the whole of the walling to the old part of the house, however, has been restored or … plan, though much altered from time to time; but the old west wing has been so much modernized that the original … though the kitchen and offices occupy pretty much their old position. The house seems to have been extended westward …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… about 1880. North-east of the church are portions of the old rectory house, consisting of a wall 55 ft. long, with … A bunch of laths used to be sold at Ormskirk by the old women at the rate of 3 d. a bunch, each bunch measuring … Gregson, op. cit. 218. Baines, Lancs. (1836), iv, 261. The old spelling seems to be Runacres, with variants like …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… who was to pay 16 s. to the king and 24 s. to the old tenant, after whose death the whole 40 s. would be due to … grandson Robert was tenant in the following year, by the old service of 40 s.; Duchy of Lanc. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, … the Gospel, on Whit Monday; ibid, ii, fol. 231. Thus an old chapel was not 'consecrated,' but licensed for use. It …
A History of the County of Stafford
… township, with the western part remaining heathland. The Old English name Hammerwich means a place ( wic) by a hill ( … 121 and remained part of the farm. The farm known as the OLD FARM by the 1890s 122 was formerly the endowment of the … dropped to 18, with an average of 120 children and 15 old and sick people benefiting each time. The seven ladies …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… stands near the brook, to the west of which is one of the old hamlets, Shuttleworth. The position of Birtwisle, another … and that to Dunnockshaw 354, so that the population of the old township was 3,870 in all. One principal road is that … family is more properly related under that manor. 16 The old residences of the lords of the manor are denoted by …