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A History of the County of Berkshire
… (ix cent.); Lamborne (xi cent.). This parish, which is in the extreme west of the county, included in 1831 the township … as tenant in demesne. 193 He granted one-eighth of a knight's fee in Blagrave to John de Rivers in 1230 to hold of … holding by the serjeanty of keeping the king's harriers. Walter de Hairez seems to have held this fee in 1130. 234 In …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Lamerton - Lustleigh Lamerton LAMERTON, in the hundred of Lifton and in the deanery of Tavistock, lies … Esq., 1653: there are memorials for the family of Knight, 17301769. The benefice is united to Countesbury. The … brought it to Langworthy. It is now the property of Walter Prideaux, Esq. About the year 1463 Thomas Gyll, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Parishes Landford LANDFORD. At this place, before the coming of the Normans, Leuric had a Manor which usually answered to the … unto him Landford, with the Appurtenances, to wit, a Knight's Fee, which Robert de Auvill, Father of the said …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… (or, ST. THELBURGA'S). These Towns went together before the Normans came, as they have done ever since, and do still. … was a considerable Share Soc to Granby, of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt, viz. in Langare as much as was rated to … she hath many Children. Her eldest Son, Sir Scrope Howe, Knight, hath lately married the Lady Anne, Daughter of John …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Parishes Langford LANGFORD Langeford (xi cent.). The parish of Langford, covering an area of 2,070 acres, lies … a thegn of Edward the Confessor, was in the possession of Walter Fleming, founder of the Wahull family. 2 This family … held of the Wahulls by service of a twelfth part of a knight's fee. 17 The first holder of whom mention has been …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Langley LANGLEY. THE next parish north eastward from Boughton Monchensie is … Langley, written in Domesday, Languelei, which signifies the long pasture, a name well adapted to it at this time. … 20th year of that reign, when he paid aid for it as half a knight's fee in Langele, held of the countess of Albermarle. …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… name from Christine de Marisco, who held it on lease from the Crown from 1282 to 1311. 1 It is a parish with an area of … are permanent grass and 701 are woods and plantations. 2 The slope of the land varies between 86 ft. and 237 ft. above ordnance …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Langport LANGPORT The town and parish of Langport was formerly a corporate … in the town, kept a museum in the Hanging Chapel. 178 Walter Bagehot (182677), economist and journalist, gained his … Ch. 3601; see below, p. 35. Mrs. R. Barrington, Life of Walter Bagehot; D.N.B.; Ross, Langport and its Ch. 35760; …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Hengende Hocton (xiii cent.). Lamport now contains the chapelry of Faxton, till 1935 a separate parish, as well … Population in 1931 was 263. Manors Among the lands of Walter the Fleming, otherwise called Walter de Wahull or … &c, in Lamport in 1276, 12 was in 1284 holding a knight's fee in Lamport of William Trussell, who held of John …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 2,984. 1 Population: 1911, 853; 1921, 885; 1931, 975. The parish forms a roughly rectangular block measuring 4 … the Falconer of Henley, and in 1349 half the land of Walter le Fowler was held by John Sweyn for 1 s. 6 d. and 2 … of land, held of the Honor of Leicester as half a knight's fee. 34 His son Henry was then aged 16; he in 1317 …