Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders, Volume 1

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Page 340 - Proceedings, Precedents, and Arguments, on Claims and Controversies, concerning Baronies by Writ, and other Honours.
Page 452 - A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen that have compounded for their Estates.
Page 59 - Pentecost, [in the] 12th year of the reign of king Edward, son of king Edward.
Page xxiii - ... and having, like an almoner, placed them at a distance from him, he took them up one by one and ate them. The king requiring an explanation of this proceeding, Owen, with a smile, replied, " I thus follow the example of my lord...
Page 285 - England, greeting. KNOW YE, that I have granted, and by this my present charter have confirmed to my burgesses of Preston, all the same liberties and free customs, which I have given and granted to my burgesses of Newcastle under Lyne.
Page 285 - Faith, and Lord of Ireland, To all to whom these present letters may come, greeting. Know ye that we of our special grace, and...
Page 443 - ... and villages around it, which were no doubt mainly built of timber. Mr. Wright takes a different view of the matter — ' the bard speaks of Withington as the scene of one encounter with the Saxons, and calls it the White Town. Here we have again a purely Anglo-Saxon name which could not therefore have existed in this locality in the time of Llywarch Hen, and there is moreover a blunder in the interpretation of it. The name has no relation whatever to white, for Withington simply means in Anglo-Saxon...
Page 56 - Trowell' on the north side and the land of Robert son of William Badde on the south side, in the parish of St. George, Lincoln ; to have and to hold of me and my heirs to the aforesaid Henry and his heirs or his assigns, freely, quietly and unencumbered, with all its appurtenances, liberties and easements to the same land belonging.
Page 48 - Lidleie, and Leie (perhaps Lee Botwood), — to have and to hold to the said Fulk, his heirs and assigns, of the Chief Lords of the fee, by performance of all services due. Witnesses, — Sir William le Botiler, Sir Roger Corbet, Sir Richard de Harleie, Sir William de Lodelowe, Sir Robert de Stepleton, Sir Richard de Lechton, Roger de Smetheote and Richard de Eton.
Page 282 - ... predictis burgensibus meis de la Pole et eorum heredibus quod possint omnes latrones, homicidias et malefactores in dicto burgo inventos attachiare et in prisona sua imprisonare et per seipsos judicare. Ego vero dictus Griffmus et heredes mei predictis burgensibus et 15 eorum heredibus omnes libertates prescriptas ut prenominatum est pro me et heredibus meis in perpetuum warrantizabimus et defendemus. In cujus rei testimonium huic scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus: Johanne filio Alani,...

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