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A History of the County of Worcester
… for administrative purposes in 1895. 1 It is on the north-western boundary of the county, and is divided into two parts by the Severn, which forms part of both the eastern and western …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Dowlish Wake DOWLISH WAKE The parish of Dowlish Wake, also called East Dowlish to … Bulstone hundred, lies 2 miles southeast of Ilminster at the western end of the hundred. 1 The name Dowlish is thought … effigies of Doulting stone on a Ham-stone chest of a knight and his lady, 144 probably installed under the will of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… lies Downe, which takes its name from its high situation; the word Dune, in Saxon, bearing that signification. This parish is but small; it is situated among the hills on high ground, the soil is poor, being clay mixed … resigned 1714. 9 Thomas, Walwyn, A. M. 1714, obt. 1747. 10 Walter Walker Ward, D. D. 1747, obt. 1755. 11 Wm. Farquar, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Donum (xiii-xiv cent.); Dowenome, Dounholme (xv cent.). The parish is composed of the townships of Downholme, … and Surv. [P.R.O.], R. 754), while John was descended from Walter de Egglescliffe, lord of Barden (q.v.) in 12867, the … given to Rievaulx Abbey for building their house by Walter de Gant with this Stainton, but, although this place …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… pp. 725; Witherington, pp. 757. This article 1 deals with the entire ancient parish of Downton whose lands, which now … 94 was born in the Parsonage where a portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh hung until it was sold to the National … were replaced in 1604. A new treble, founded by Samuel Knight of Reading and dated 1692, and a new tenor, by Clement …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… c. 1839 Draycot Cerne 1 is 5 km. NNE. of Chippenham. 2 The suffix Cerne is derived from the surname of the lords of … Sir Henry 76 (d. 1556), Sir Robert 77 (d. 1581), and Sir Walter 78 (d. 1610). From Sir Walter, whose disinheritance of … 108 In 12423 Ela Longespe, countess of Salisbury, held knight's fee at Knabwell. 109 The overlordship of NABALS …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Draycot Foliat DRAYCOT FOLIAT The ancient parish of Draycot Foliat lies 1 mile from … lands at Draycot in 1194. 28 Before 1207 Hawise, wife of Walter Brito, granted to her nephew by marriage, Walter … estate by his son Sampson Foliot, 45 who, in 12423, held 1 knight's fee of Henry Croke. 46 Sampson still held the manor …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… until 1867, when it was made an ecclesiastical parish. 1 The ecclesiastical and civil parishes are conterminous, the area being 1,851 acres. The early boundaries of the lands … the dissolution of the monasteries, 48 it being part of a knight's fee lying in Abingdon, Dry Sandford and Drayton. 49 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Drayton DRAYTON This small and narrow parish lies in the Oxfordshire wolds some 2 miles north-west of Banbury. 1 … 40 Henceforth until the 1380s the Arden family held by knight service of the earls of Warwick. Although the Ardens … Margaret. 79 In 1384 or 1385 she and her second husband Walter Power leased her life interest in Drayton to Sir …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… cent.); Dreiton (xiii cent.); Druton Bechame (xvi cent.). The parish of Drayton Beauchamp covers an area of 1,319 … Major S. W. Jenney, J.P., V.D., and residence of the Rev. Walter Neame. Grim's Ditch, now only faintly visible, and the … brasses; that on the south shows the broken figure of a knight in armour of the latter part of the 14th century. The …