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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Deerhurst DEERHURST The parish of Deerhurst lies almost entirely between the … manor in 1613 to John King, 174 who apparently sold it to Walter King in 1617. 175 A Walter King was still holding land … Abbey, 215 and in 1303 Richard de Beer held it as knight's fee; 216 by 1346 it had passed to Fulk of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Delting DETLING. THE next parish eastward from Boxley is Detling, written in antient records, Detlinges. The VILLAGE of Detling is situated at the foot of the chalk … de Detling then held it of the archbishop of Canterbury by knight's service, as half a knight's fee. In memory of this …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Denchesworde (xi cent.); Denecheswrth (xiii cent.). The small parish of Denchworth covers 1,041 acres of … of Lancaster. Henry de Tubney son of Henry, held half a knight's fee here in the middle of the 13th century, 8 and … of South Denchworth was conveyed to feoffees in 1365 by Walter Catewy and Joan his wife. 22 They perhaps held it on …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Deneforde (xi cent.); Deneford (xii, xiii, xiv cent.). The parish of Denford lies on the eastern boundary of the … of the fee of Denford. 9 In charters of the same century, Walter son of Gilbert Denford appears 10 and he was succeeded … to trace. Probably, however, the manor was held as one knight's fee and the later moieties each as half a knight's …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Parishes Denham DENHAM Daneham (xi cent.). The parish of Denham contains 3,939 acres. Of this, 1,308 … was the tenant in 1166. 89 Another member of the family, Walter Durdent, was in 1225 appointed a justice of the assize … above mentioned was in possession in 1371. 105 He was knight of the shire in 138990 and in 13945, 106 and was …
A History of the County of Northampton
… or Little Doddington (xviii cent.). Denton is a parish on the road from Northampton to Bedford, 2 miles from the Horton … apparently, of 1 hides, namely 6 small virgates held by Walter fitz Winemar and 10 small virgates held by William de … Lancaster, 14 of whom Laurence de Preston was holding one knight's fee in Quinton and Denton in 1297. 15 Further …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… south. These long, narrow parishes would seem to represent the division of the marsh (fen) by Turchil. 1 He apparently added a narrow … by the Bishops of Lincoln as late as 1636, as a third of a knight's fee. 8 Beville. Gules a cheveron between three …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… GRAVESEND. NORTHWARD from Chalk lies Denton, called in the Textus Roffensis, Denitune, and in Domesday, Danitone, … which name it is supposed to take from its having been the habitation of the Danes, i.e. Dane town. It is now … confirmed to them (as well as the former grants of bishops Walter, Gilbert, and Henry) by John archbishop of Canterbury, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… LIES next to Barham south-eastward, being written in the survey of Domesday, Danitone, and at present Denton by Eleham, to distinguish it from another parish of the same name near Gravesend, in this county. It has only one … from it; for Simon de Danitone appears to have held it by knight's service, of the above barony, in the 56th of king …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… DEPTFORD, AS far as lies within this county, is within the hundred of Blackheath, and was so named from the deep ford here over the river Ravensborne, before the … but he dying soon after, she married Sir William Heron, knight. This family of Saye, from their long possession of …