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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… IV, 756) History Owing to the multiplicity of land units in the Billings recorded in Domesday Book the … (BL Cott Vesp E xvii f. 55r). Since Winemar was a Domesday land owner in the area, a grant by Walter fitz Simon (BL …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… act was passed in 1840 for the more effectual drainage of land. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the … built almshouses for 3 aged couples, and endowed them with land producing 63 per annum. Thomas Bilney, a learned divine, … in thickness from the surface. The Birmingham and Staffordshire canal, which passes near the town, and several …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Prisoners committed to the Common Gaols of this Land. An Act for the Restitution in Blood of John Bassett, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to a family resident here; and among subsequent owners of land occur the families of Knowles and Stanhope: the present … is Viscount Downe. The township comprises 1180 a. 29 p. of land, tithe-free: the village is on the old turnpike-road, … at 3. 16. 0., and with a net income of 131: allotments of land were assigned in lieu of tithes for the township in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… year the king gave to Emery de Rivallis the custody of the land which Reynold Aguillon held of the grant of the Earl of … in Binderton, as being 'lands of Normans'. 7 Next year the land of Robert de la Mote, Norman, was granted to Hugh …
A History of the County of Sussex
… an Anglo-Saxon word meaning a heel or projecting ridge of land: it lies between the Binsted brook on the west and a … in 1899 and later, 15 derives from that of adjoining land, 16 which may have owed a customary payment (or scot). A … accounted for thirteen of those dwellings. The sales of land in that year 79 allowed new houses to be built on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 247 pasture, and 26 plantation: some of it is good wheat land, and other parts good turnip and barley soil. The living … now producing 50 per annum; and the half of 30, rent of land bequeathed by an unknown benefactor. Birbeck-Fells … Bretherdale, Rounthwaite, and Low Scales, is endowed with land producing about 40 per annum, purchased with a bequest …