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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… WINCHESTER Bishops BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER Stigand Cons. to bpric. of Elmham 3 Apr. 1043, but depr. 1052. Nom. to Winchester … obits.: B.M., Add. MS. 29436 fos. 48v, 73r). 2 Henry of Blois 3 Previously and concurrently abbot of Glastonbury …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Castle CASTLE The County Hall, the great Hall of Winchester where the first Parliaments of England were held, is the only remaining portion of the castle where Norman and Angevin kings resided, where …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great, in A.D. 856 1 there is no authentic …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 3 ploughteams but 4 1/2 teams were actually being worked, of which 2 were on the demesne and 1 1/2 was worked by 10 … installed from Repton (Derb.) by William I. There was 8 a. of meadow and an unspecified area of underwood. Together with a mill, the total value of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 the manor of WINSTONE was held by Ansfrid de Cormeilles who had received it on his marriage to a niece of Walter de Lacy, 45 although Walter's son Hugh may have held the estate at some stage. 46 The overlordship of the manor descended with the honor of Cormeilles, 47 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … originally the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably … Dragoons; the sale may have been occasioned by his being drafted to the East Indies. The estate continued in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Charters of incorporation CHARTERS OF INCORPORATION Borough of Wisbech Azure represntations of … were empowered to choose their successors. 52 The other clauses of the charter repeat those of 1549 in greater …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene about 12 miles from its present outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a series of settlements spaced at two- to three-mile …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Later history of the castle LATER HISTORY OF THE CASTLE Secretary John Thurloe, who purchased the manor … replaced Morton's palace by a house in the style of the time, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones, but …