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A History of the County of Worcester
… is a good Jacobean bench, made for secular use, inscribed upon the front panel of the seat, 'Sit Down Ye Weary.' There …
A History of the County of Somerset
… to predominate in the parish. Although dependent primarily upon agriculture the parish's proximity to Ilminster …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… meadows bisected the borough. 56 It was crossed by Kingston bridge. 57 In the mid 13th century Downton probably … who was then constructing the near-by carriage under Kingston bridge and rebuilding at New Court. 75 The White … farm. 473 Lands on both sides of Moot Lane were built upon in the mid 20th century. In 1837 Milk Hills farm …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the 7 composition payment, which had been agreed upon in 1572, and it seems that some time before 1660 a modus …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was described by a contemporary as a 'fearful eclipse upon the church'. 193 When Archbishop Bancroft, finding no … i, pp. 233, 256. She was certainly dead by 1286 when Ryton upon Dunsmore (Warws.), having reverted to Sir Thomas Arden …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 1377, 25 the manor was inherited by Roger, who entered upon the estate and married without the royal licence; his mother Joan likewise entered upon her dower lands, for which pardon was obtained by both … two tiers; each holds his symbol and stands under a canopy upon a step on which is his name, while over his head is a …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… his right to the abbots. Lucy, Ralph's widow, called upon William de Curly, who claimed the wardship as belonging …
A History of the County of Worcester
… William de Bereford and others alleged that 'he had taken upon him so great authority in Staffordshire that no man … them.' 51 His unpopularity may account for a raid made upon the castle during his ownership of it. In 1321 Nicholas … Sir John Dudley, being for the rest of his life dependent upon his friends and known by the name of Lord Quondam. 86 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Ursula of Edmund Knightley. 109 In 1541 Neville entered upon a third of the third previously held by Elizabeth, widow … with William Dix, probably again returning to the Crown upon Philip's forfeiture in 1589. 187 In 1606 James I granted … lessee had wrongfully excluded them from common of pasture upon certain land, perhaps there. 224 By 1798 most of the 460 …