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A History of the County of Lancaster
… not only the parish but the hundred owed service. 5 By the Norman kings the town of Manchester with the greater part of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… that there was a church on Castle Hill well before the Norman Conquest. Gravestones, the artistic style of which … south doorway and the bowl of the font, both of the late Norman period, survive from the old church. 216 St. Peter's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… seen, the ancient Crown revenues, probably from before the Norman Conquest, were made up of (1) haw gavel and land …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by local need and ancient custom well before the Norman Conquest. The regulations in the Cross Book make …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of courts held at Cambridge in the century before the Norman Conquest, 18 some undoubtedly shire moots, held near … last Saxon sheriff its lawmen had paid a heriot, which the Norman sheriff Picot had increased eightfold, further adding … The Fitzwilliam Museum possesses a collection of pre-Norman silver pennies minted in Cambridge. See below, p. 123. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the castle to scrutinize the sheriff's roll there'. 2 The Norman castle, erected in 1068, was of the motte and bailey … though irregular bastions' were added on the verge of the Norman ditch, measuring 17 ft. in height and 70 in breadth at … C.A.S. Comm. viii. 173212; W. H. St. John Hope, 'On the Norman Origin of Cambridge Castle', C.A.S. Comm. xi. 32446; …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… it has been in general called, from about the time of the Norman conquest. 4 The origin of the city is said by Jeffry … seignory of it continued in the crown, and did so at the Norman conquest, as appears by the following entry of it in …
Magna Britannia
… to all our historians, it lay desolate till after the Norman conquest 3. None of the historians speak of any thing … English Street. In the reign of William Rufus, Walter, a Norman priest, began a monastery at Carlisle: it was … towards the latter end of the seventeenth century, to Mr. Norman, and it is now the property of Mr. Dixon; the …
A History of the County of Chester
… towns, mostly in the South. 5 At the time of the Norman Conquest Chester was in effect a provincial capital. … the hands of the West Saxon kings, and on the eve of the Norman Conquest it was one of the series of sizeable Midland … The fact that Chester belonged for over 150 years to Anglo-Norman earls rather than English kings, unlike most large …
A History of the County of Chester
… towns, mostly in the South. 13 At the time of the Norman Conquest Chester was in effect a provincial capital. … the hands of the West Saxon kings, and on the eve of the Norman Conquest it was one of the series of sizeable Midland … The fact that Chester belonged for over 150 years to Anglo-Norman earls rather than English kings, unlike most large …