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A History of the County of Northampton
… HORTON Horton (xi cent.); Hortun (xiii cent.). The parish of Horton lies 6 miles south-east from Northampton on the … Olney; 5 2 hides, 1 small virgate held by Alouf de Merk, son of Otbert, of the fee of Wahull; 6 and 6 virgates held by … 28 He died without heirs, so that the estate passed to Sir Philip Botiler of Woodhall, co. Hertford, the grandson of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Kirkby. THIS PARISH contains about three thousand acres of land, of which four hundred are wood. It extends about two … about the 20th of king Edward I. to Roger de Kirkby, son of Sir John de Kirby, descended of the family of that … son, who succeeded him here, and in the next reign of king Philip and queen Mary, conveyed these premises, by fine and …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Horwood covers 3, 270 acres. The parish has 139 acres of woods and plantations. Roddimore Covert is in the south … and one of his successors was Geoffrey Berner or Geoffrey son of Berner, who in 1255 70 and again in 1279 71 is … who in 1306 conveyed lands and rents in Great Horwood to Simon de Bradwell and Hugh his son. 73 Hugh was holding here …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… accounted but as a borough to the adjoining parish of Reculver, to which, as to its ecclesiastical jurisdiction, it still belongs. THE PARISH of Hothe is situated in a lonely unfrequented country, both … to Thomas Culpeper, esq. of Bedgbury, in Goudhurst, son and heir of Sir Alexander Culpeper, who by an act in the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from the bothe, or heath within it. The greatest part of this parish lies within the hundred of Chart and … died in 1567, and was buried in this church, leaving one son John Tufton, who resided at Hothfield-place, and in July, … to that title. He married Mary, daughter of lord John Philip Sackville, sister of the present duke of Dorset, by …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… situation, lies the next parish eastward from Polton. Part of it only is within this hundred of Bewsborough; another … 1534, s.p. he by his will gave it to William, the eldest son of his brother Richard deceased, who afterwards resided … Mr. Michael Becker, of Dover, who in 1792 sold it to Mr. Philip Leman, of Dover castle, the present owner of it. The …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xiv cent.); frequently Houghton with Wyton. The parish of Houghton lies immediately west of St. Ives and has its … chamberlain to Henry I and a patron of Ramsey Abbey. 26 Simon de Houghton (Houton), sheriff of Cambridge and … 27 and died about 1260, may have been his successor. His son Stephen compounded for his father's debts to the King in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Parishes Houghton HOUGHTON The parish of Houghton, lying south-west of Stock-bridge and north-west … of 2 19 s. 9 d. 12 On his death the manor passed to his son and heir Robert, who dealt with it by a recovery in 1589 … to her only daughter Amphyllis, who married Lawrence Hyde, son and heir of Sir Lawrence Hyde, bart., in 1619. 17 …
A History of the County of Bedford
… (xii cent.); Octona, Hocton (xiii cent.). The parish of Houghton Conquest lies some 6 miles south of Bedford. It … The tradition long current that her brother, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote his Arcadia in the grounds of this house … here in 1621, the year of her death. 6 Her younger son, Philip Earl of Montgomery, who had a reversionary …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Houghton Regis HOUGHTON REGIS Houstone, Houton. The parish of Houghton Regis, to the north of Dunstable, contains about … and held the manor till his death. 38 His heir was his son Hugh, a minor, and during the latter's minority the manor … 72. The prior also farmed 1 hide and half a virgate of Simon Bobelin, part of which lay in Sewell, at a rent of 3 …