Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 53Society, 1902 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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Page 140 - The manor remained in the possession of the Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries, when it passed to the Crown, and was granted, in 1559, to Peter Grey, Esq..
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Page 58 - ... 6th for having acquired it without licence, and licence to retain it. Before May loth, 1308, he also alienated the manor of Piriton to John de Guise, and before October 23rd, 1310, the manor of Wakerley to John la Warre, who had married his sister Joan, and had obtained an acknowledgment for 6ooo//. from Thos. Grelley, to be levied, in default of payment, on his lands and chattels in the counties of Lancaster, Lincoln, Northampton, Rutland, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Somerset, probably for...
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Page 175 - Woodchurch for the time being | twenty pounds the interest of which is to be laid out in | bread and distributed amongst the poor of the said | Parish every Lord's day at the discretion of the Mini | ster and Church- £ wardens for the time being for ever 20 Thomas Woodfine and lohn Coley Churchwardens, 1792.
Page 53 - Grelley, her inheritance descended to the issue of her first marriage, viz., her son Wyscard Ledet. The principal estates which descended to his issue from both parents were the barony of Warden, or Westwardon, and the manors of Sutton, Potton, and Cadebury. It was said of two of those manors that John of Gaunt gave them, and an indefeasable title thereto, to one of his favourites, by the most concise charter ever known. It ran thus — I John of Gaunt, do give and do grant, To John of Burgoyne,...
Page 112 - Puddington halle ; there she would be bould to calle, & she hoped that she might pass for he was att service and she was at mass. The hare did shoute as shee went bye, and then they came out with a gallant crye. The hare did thinke ye worlde went rounde — 4 huntinge homes at once did sounde ! She found them pastyme for a whyle, in a leawge she dubbled they lost a myle.