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A History of the County of Northampton
… ever took effect, as during the same year it was bestowed upon Sir Walter Manny in part satisfaction of 100 per annum … issue in 1542, 40 and was bestowed by Edward VI in 1550 upon Thomas Smythe, one of the secretaries of state, and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… time successive Bishops of Winchester retained their hold upon it until the Bishops' Resignation Act of 1869 vested all … her first husband, 88 but she evidently settled the manor upon her second husband on her marriage with him, 89 and it … The registers begin in 1621, the earliest being entered upon loose sheets of vellum mounted on paper and now …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… not usually seen', where 'they lie so thick as you may go upon them all the way'. 74 The site formed part of the Nature …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Sir William Springett, 19 by whom the manor was settled upon his brother Herbert of St. Catherine Hall, Cambridge, … his wife settled a third of the manor and advowson upon themselves and Robert's son Richard, and his wife … settled the reversion of a third of the manor of Ovingdean upon his son Robert on his marriage with Alice daughter of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… ecclesiastical parish of Colden Common in 1843. Upon the foundation of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Thorton, it should be noticed, was one who fat in judgment upon the unfortunate Charles the first, and was an active …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and a mason, were supported by trades whereas 29 depended upon agriculture. 216 Two carpenters were mentioned in the … 248 and a contract of 1788 made with a weaver of Upton upon Severn for the complete management for a year of all the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… John Hathewyk, recovered the estate as heir of Keynes 38 upon an assize of novel disseisin from Eleanor Stafford, as …
A History of the County of Surrey
… round it, showing that the sand was dug out and piled upon a natural knoll, and flint flakes of human workmanship … explanation for the loose sand being in a circular heap upon the harder sandstone unless it was piled up for some … Burrough, 66 who in 1691 conveyed it to Michael Edwards of Kingston. He in 1696 devised it by will to his nephew Sir …
Magna Britannia
… of the late Robert Strelley, Esq., who built a house upon the estate, now the property and residence of his widow. … fearing how large a reach such a precedent might have) upon a Sunday (belike the better day the better deed) called … three miles from Ashhy-de-la-Zouch, and ten from Burton-upon-Trent. Part of the townships and villages of Donisthorpe …