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A History of the County of Buckingham
… Iver IVER Evreham (xi cent.); Eure, Evere (xiixvi cent.). The parish of Iver contains 5,531 acres, of which 1,750 … 2,552 of permanent grass, 217 of woods and plantations. 1 The soil is loamy with a subsoil of gravel, and the parish … the ownership in fee was doubtless conveyed by him to Sir Walter Mildmay, surveyor of the Court of Augmentations, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Hythingho, Yvyngho (xiixiii cent.); Ivanhoe (xvii cent.). The parish of Ivinghoe contains 4,787 acres, of which 2,010 … to note that the name of this parish provided Sir Walter Scott with the title for one of the Waverley novels. … 107 Geoffrey de Lucy and his heirs held part of a knight's fee in Seabrook in the 13th and 14th centuries, 108 …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Jacobstow - St Just Jacobstow JACOBSTOW, In the hundred of Stratton and deanery of Trigg-Major, lies … of Launceston, and ten nearly south of Stratton, which is the post-office town. The only village in this parish is Sowacott or Southcott. The …
A History of the County of Hertford
… (x, xi cent.); Kelshulle, Kelshille (xiii cent.). The parish of Kelshall, containing about 4,703 acres, lies on the chalk hills. On its eastern side the land rises as high … 64 In 1229 John de Bassingburn, who was holding half a knight's fee in Kelshall of the Bishop of Ely, 65 claimed …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… KEMERTON Kemerton lies 4 miles north-east of Tewkesbury on the south-west slopes of Bredon Hill. It projected from the … Dixton and his heirs. 73 In 1190 John de Bonville held 2 knight's fees in Kemerton, presumably the whole of Girard's … de Bures, Katherine and Giles Beauchamp (d. 1361), son of Walter Beauchamp of Powicke. 89 The other half of the manor …
A History of the County of Worcester
… (ix cent.); Chemesege (xi cent.). Kempsey is a parish on the left bank of the Severn, containing 3,238 acres of land, … of the Bishop of Worcester as of his manor of Kempsey for knight service. 54 He left a son Thomas, aged thirteen, but … Part of his estate afterwards passed to his brother Walter, who gave it in 1311 to his mother Alice and his …
A History of the County of Bedford
… is a large parish and straggling village adjoining the south-west district of the town of Bedford. By section 36 … company. The Bury, a modern building, the residence of Mr. Walter G. Harter, stands in an elevated position at the west … yeoman, to hold of the king for one-twentieth part of a knight's fee and an annual rent of 6 s. 8 d. 151 William …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Kemsing KEMSING. THE next parish eastward from Otford is KEMSING, called in … the possession of the earl of Albermarle, who held it of Walter Fitzhelt, as he again did of the king in capite. In … paid aid for it, in the 20th of king Edward III. as half a knight's fee, which William de Grandison before held in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Kenardington KENARDINGTON. THE next parish southward from Shadoxhurst, a small part of … of Cockride, in Bilsington, which he held in capite by knight's service, together with the advowson of the church, 1 … granted the see of this manor and advowson that year, to Walter Moyle, gent. of the Middle Temple, London, who died s. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1 Population: 1911, 5,776; 1921, 6,751; 1931, 7,592. The parish, which in early times was heavily wooded and as late as the 17th century had extensive parks containing much timber, … the King's Arms Inn, later famous as the inn at which Sir Walter Scott stayed in 1815 before writing the novel which …