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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… during ironstone-mining. It contained four circles of post-holes. Outside the enclosure were more post-holes, probably of a rectangular building ( Beds. Arch. … were found under the mound. In the 13th century a post mill was erected on the summit (Whellan, Dir., 431; J. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Willoughby, who died in 1471, and one dated 1528 to Henry, father of Sir Hugh Willoughby, who, with his crew, was … to have been the manor-house of the Bishop of Durham. Henry Pudsey, nephew to Bishop Pudsey, contemplated the … deanery of Windsor. In 1258, the town obtained from Henry III. the grant of a market and a fair; from which time no …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… in this place, of which Robert de Mortein lived in King Henry the firsts time, at the foundation of Lenton Priory; … the amercements of the Forest. Eustachius de Moretoin gave Henry, son of William 3 4 Hamelyn of Wollaton, his Villain, … in the County of Stafford, Knight, by whom he had Sir Henry Willoughby, Knight and Banneret, who had four wives, …
A Dictionary of London
… Denmars and was a public way to the Thames. In 17 Ed. III. complaint was made that it had been stopped up (Lib. … Former names: "Woodmongers Wharfs " (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 279). "Timber Wharf" (Rocque, 1746). Site now covered by … " Wdestrate," 5 John (ib. A. 2502). "Wodestrete," 24 H. III. (Ch. I. p.m.). Afterwards called Great Wood Street and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The old church had a ring of five bells cast by William, Henry, and James Bagley in 1707, 1710, 1742, and 1747; those …
A History of the County of Oxford
… largest was 214 a., another 197 a., and a third, farmed by Henry Osborn of Church Farmhouse, 176a.; the remaining three … (24 June) and the two following days, a grant confirmed by Henry II c. 1182. 68 The fair, which gave its name to Fair …
A History of the County of Oxford
… between 1726 and 1742. The early 19th-century tenant, Henry Osborn, added a new and grandiose front, incorporating … Rosamund' the daughter of Walter Clifford and mistress of Henry II, who was buried there in the late 1170s. Her tomb, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Reynold's son Bernard of St. Valery granted Wolvercote to Henry II who gave it to Godstow abbey. 63 The abbey held the … the Dissolution, and in 1541 it was sold to George Owen, Henry VIII's physician. 64 George Owen died in 1558 and was … younger son, William: D.N.B.; Alum. Oxon. 1500-1714, iii. 902. O.R.O., Mor. XXIV/2; Bodl. MS. Dep. d 72, f. 179. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… later built. 30 At the Dissolution the site was granted to Henry VIII's physician, George Owen. 31 It was sold, with the … abbey was enlarged or rebuilt between 1176 and 1188 when Henry II gave a total of £258, including £100 for the church, … ii (O.H.S. vii), 393. Reg. Epist. J. Peckham (Rolls Ser.), iii. 850. Below, Church. Visit. Religious Hos., i. 67. Gent. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of a priory of Black canons, founded in the reign of Henry I. by William Fitz-Alan, and which at the Dissolution … House, a portion of which was erected in the reign of Henry VIII. Wonersh (St. John the Baptist) WONERSH ( St. John … was built by John, Lord Seagrave, in the reign of Edward III., and the tower and north portico in that of Henry VI.: …