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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Darent, sometimes spelt Darenth, and usually called Darne. The name of this parish is spelt, in some antient writings, … Domesday, and some others, Tarent. It takes its name from the river Darent, which runs through it. This place was sometimes called North Darent, to distinguish it from the neighbouring parish or hamlet of South Darent. This …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Dartford DARTFORD LIES the next parish eastward from Crayford, on the high road from … to Smithfield, with some few attendants, and sent a knight to Tyler, to come there and confer with him, which … was decreed to the vicar, by the desinitive sentence of Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, in the year 1315, as an …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Dartmouth - Dunterton Dartington DARTINGTON, in the hundred of Stanborough and in the deanery of Totton, lies … Roger Vavasor, killed in fight, 1696; Sir Joseph Herne, Knight, 1698; and Walter Jago, Esq., 1733. The church of St. Petrock, situated …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xivxv cent.). Datchet is a low-lying parish sloping on the southwest towards the River Thames, whose mid-stream here … of the king in chief by Giles de Pinkney. 39 It formed a knight's fee 40 of the barony of Pinkney (the caput of which … 97 (q.v.), and the manorial rights are now vested in John Walter Edward, second Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. Pinkney. Or a …
A History of the County of Hertford
… (xiii cent.); Dachesworth, Daccheworthe (xiv cent.). The parish of Datchworth has an area of 2,018 acres, of which … Lee, from whom it passed upon his death in 1370 to his son Walter de la Lee, 27 who held it in 1376. 28 Walter's heirs … of Ralph Pennyfather, 58 who in 1673 sold it to Edmund Knight. 59 After this date there is no further record of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… is a parish of scattered hamlets and farmsteads in the valley of the Bristol Avon, southeast of Malmesbury, … apparently by lease. By 1086 the abbey had granted it as a knight's fee to Robert. 64 It apparently passed to Miles of … son Sir John 73 (d. 1405) and to that Sir John's son Sir Walter 74 (d. 1420). Sir Walter was succeeded by his sister …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Davington DAVINGTON THE next parish westward is Davington, which is situated … 19s. 9d. yearly revenue. About the year 1326, archbishop Walter Reynolds prescribed certain rules and ordinances for … at the yearly rent of twenty pounds, to hold in capite by knight's service. He died in the 1st year of queen Elizabeth, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Dalysford, Dailsford, Dallifford, Dallisford (xvii cent.). The parish of Daylesford, containing 670 acres, of which 266 … Despenser, for the Worcester chartulary records that Walter de Beauchamp held 3 hides there in the time of Henry … Eaton of Oxford, 52 and subsequently to sell it to Jacob Knight, 53 from whose trustees it was bought back in 1793 by …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Parishes Dean DEAN Dena, Dene (xi cent.). The parish of Dean lies on the northern boundary of the … that this treasure-trove was a sum of 800, the property of Walter de Hibernia, deceased, parson of the church of Dean, … 16 who is mentioned in the Testa de Nevill as holding a knight's fee in Dean. 17 Alexander was succeeded by John de …
A History of the County of Oxford
… north of Oxford and 5 miles (9 km.) south of Banbury in the north Oxfordshire uplands. 1 The large parish, 4,246 a. … for Oxfordshire lands (at the usual rate of 20 s. for a knight's fee), 188 and by his grant of a mill in Deddington … in Deddington was held by Alice, who was in the custody of Walter de Gray, archbishop of York, while 10 marks' worth was …