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Calendar of Border Papers
… I must make such hard shift for the money, rather than the land be taken to the overthrow of my house. With thanks for … has an old book, containing most of the tenures in this land, in the times of Kings Henry 3 d and Edward 1 st: made …
Calendar of Border Papers
… and the safest place there, to murder John Musgrave the land sergeant, " discharginge above thirtie dagges and gunnes … man above the water of Irden reset in his house or on his land, any Scot not licenced by the lord warden, or any … under-officers failing in their duties: and that the land sergeant of Gilsland may presently have the usual place …
Calendar of Border Papers
… charges and losses, both cheap and dear, as by sea and by land: while, by Ardern's offer, the Queen is to take any gain … duties of officers, &c., partition of the Debateable land, offices, fees, &c. of the Lord Warden. Extracts. " Anno …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… been anciently a place of considerable importance. The land is generally elevated; the soil is fertile though … containing 18 inhabitants. It comprises 549 acres of land. Boscobel House is celebrated in history as the place … on the top of a stupendous rock, formerly part of the main land, but now connected with it only by a narrow isthmus: the …
Survey of London
… authority by Act of Parliament 23 to buy an acre of land for a new churchyard, the old one being "in the mydell …
Survey of London
… ft.) below its present level in relation to the existing land surface." The 1850 large-scale skeleton Ordnance Survey …
A History of the County of Sussex
… acres of coppice. There were some 4,000 acres of copyhold land, bringing in about 84 in rents, and they were of three … a grant of 8 Edward IV. Henry I gave 30 shillingsworth of land at BROADBRIDGE in Bosham to William son of Ernulf in … 59 This figures on the Pipe Rolls of Henry II as 'the land of rnald of Bradebrigge'. By the 13th century it was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the town have been drained and cultivated, a tract of rich land, of nearly 70,000 acres, has been obtained, which, … for the eastern division of the parish were commuted for land and a money payment in 1810. The church is a magnificent … and Wetherby. A chapel, a neat plain building, erected on land given by Mr. Samuel Tate, was consecrated in 1815: the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… uncultivated, about 45,000 consist of mountain and heath land used for pasture, 45,000 of woods and plantations, while … the Culm, a tributary of the Exe. A very small tract of land about Otterford drains into the river Otter. Staple …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Bodmeschell earl Tosti had twelve bovats for the geld. The land eight car. But after the Conquest the king had 1 there … held in the town of Bodmeshill, with the Sok, two car. of land and an half of the king in capite, by the service of … Elwyse two mess. one gareren, one orchard, sixty acres of land, one hundred of meadow, two hundred of pasture, forty of …