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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… various donors, are yearly given away in money and coal. Henry Kirke White was for some time at school here. … upon the royalists, and to have driven them from their post, slaying 1000 men, and taking 2000 prisoners who had … the attainder of his descendant, Robert, in the time of Henry III. By this monarch it was given in 1265 to his son, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… a panel with the date 1659. ConditionGood. (4). House, now Post Office and two tenements, 30 yards N.E. of (3). The E. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on plan). These are very well preserved and fragments of post-medieval pottery have been found on them. On the higher …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the reign of Edward I., from which period till the time of Henry VI. it was invariably written Wysebeche. The name is … and 18 councillors, under the act 5th and 6th of William IV., cap. 76; the borough is divided into two wards; the … I. slept at Wistow Hall here, which is now the seat of Sir Henry Halford, son of the late Sir Henry Halford, Bart., …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Ulyat, who built the present house in 1806. John and Henry Ulyat are recorded as farmers in Parson Drove in 1851. … Hall lands which provided the endowment. 24 The Revd. Henry Pujolas, incumbent from 1692 to 1749, was an ejected … and Tydd (2,000 acres). R. Holinshed, Chron., ed. 1808, iv, 255. W. Watson, Hist. Wisb. 388; Fenland N. & Q. ii, 235. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in various recognizances, and in 1321 the inquisition post mortem on the bishop shows him as holding, inter alia, a … in 1535 at 16 s. 8 d. 93 They were leased in 1539 to Henry Webbe 94 and in 1552 for twenty-one years to Thomas …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… manor remained in this family for more than a century. 22 Henry Kervile made a settlement thereof in 1592; 23 at his … John III (d. 1704). 63 The next owner was John IV (d. 1743), the eldest son of John III. He was succeeded by … rise from the piers, but the roof itself, of the queen-post type, is modern. Three modern straining arches of wood …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The drainage can only have been that carried out by Henry Dereham in 1635 (see Tydd St. Giles) and Lumpkin's … The chief owners were: the lord (417 a.); the heirs of Henry Pitchford (86 a.); Nicholas Lumpkin (76 a.); the Rector … member of the family. In 1409 he was sent by Henry IV on an important mission to Italy, 25 and at the end of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… again in 1221, the most important being Adam (succeeded by Henry) de Sancto Edmundo, who held 200 acres in the marsh for … of bailiff's accounts, mainly of the reign of Edward IV, shows rents of assize usually of 3 6 s. 8 d. and … Bardolph, perhaps including Upwell, is mentioned in other inquisitions on the holders of the barony, 64 but before the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… early 19th century; John of Gaunt, late 14th century; and Henry VIII impaling Katharine of Aragon, first half of the … Rep., App. pt. i, 277. In that year the earl wrote to Sir Henry Vane, Ambassador at The Hague, suggesting financial … Cong. Mag. iii, 113 (1820). Lewis, Topog. Dict. (1831), iv, 293. Gladys Scott Thomson, Family Background (1949), …