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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… adjoining to Sturry northward, and takes its name from the Saxon word hyrne, or hurne, signifying a nook or corner. … in it, viz. Stroud, Hawe, Hampton, Beltinge, and Thornden. The borsholders of these boroughs are subordinate to the … of the see of Canterbury, of which it was held by knight's service, by a family who took their name from it, in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Hernehill HERNEHILL. The next adjoining parish northward is Hernehill, over which the paramount manor of the hundred of Boughton, belonging to … in marriage to her second husband Sir Alexander Frazer, knight and bart. in whose name it continued till the end of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Herrerd (xiii cent.); Hereyard (xiv and xvi cent.). The parish of Herriard covers an area of 2,978 acres of high country, which rises on every side from near the centre of the parish, where the ground is lowest and … latter acquired Herriard and held it for the service of a knight's fee and a half of Herbert Fitz Peter in 1235. 10 …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Parts of ALL SAINTS and ST. JOHN'S HERTFORD, including the liberties of Brickendon and Little Amwell. The following … 35 This is probably identical with the quarter of a knight's fee in Brickendon held of Alice Countess of Kent at … third holding in the Domesday Survey was 1 virgate which Walter held of Geoffrey de Mandeville. 43 It had previously …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Hertfordingebyre, Hertfordiggebiry (xiii cent.). The parish of Hertingfordbury has an area of 2,644 acres, of … and heir Gunnora de Valognes, 9 who married Robert Fitz Walter. 10 Their daughter Christine, 11 wife of William de … died in 1656, 130 leaving a son Thomas Trevor, baronet and knight of the Bath, who died childless in 1676, 131 after …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… SOUTH-EASTWARD from Eatonbridge lies Hever, called in the Textus Roffensis, and some antient records, Heure, and in others, Evere. This parish lies below the sand hill, and is consequently in that district of this … in Hever, to hold by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee. William de Hever, in the reign of king Edward …
A History of the County of Hertford
… cent.); Hextone (xv cent.). Hexton formerly belonged to the half-hundred of Hitchin, but when it came into the possession of the abbots of St. Albans it was probably … been the half-hide of land which was held of the abbot by knight's service as one-eleventh part of a knight's fee. This …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Heythrop, a parish of 1,763 a. (713.5 ha.), comprises the townships of Heythrop and Dunthrop. Although united early … by Hasculf Musard. Assessed at 5 hides and held as knight's fee, the manor descended in the Musard family but, … and in 1434 they granted her life interest in the manor to Walter Walkstead, rector of Charltonon-Otmoor. In 1439 Walter …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… with it belong to St. Mary of Sudwell, being a Piece of the two Prebends of Oxton. Before the Conquest in Echeling, … Another Part of this Town was Soc to Cranby, of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt, and was rated to the Geld for two Car. The … which his Father Gerard de Frnecurt held of him, viz. one Knight's Fee in Hickeling and Kinalton, and in Brunneby one …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Great Wycombe, Temple Wycombe (xvi cent.). High Wycombe is the first town in Buckinghamshire in point of size, and … BURY, which was held of the honour of Wallingford by one knight's fee. 213 Alan Basset received a confirmation of this … her life interest in one-third of a mill in Wycombe to Walter de Penn. 306 About the same date, or a little …