Abstracts of Feet of Fines Relating to Wiltshire, 1377-1509
Author : Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Law
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Author : Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Law
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Author : John Lavan Kirby
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 1986
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Wiltshire (England)
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Author : Joseph Biancalana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139430823
Fee tails were a heritable interest in land which was both inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to descendants of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins of the entail, and the development of a reliable legal mechanism for their destruction, the common recovery.
Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0192527479
Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author : Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 1996-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521555869
The Stonor letters and papers form one of only three surviving archives of gentry correspondence from late medieval England. The collection - which includes documents ranging from love letters to household accounts - provides us with a wealth of otherwise unobtainable detail about the lives and careers of a gentry family, their servants and their friends. Much of the material comes from the period of the Wars of the Roses, and allows us an insider's view on national events and the people involved in them. Originally edited by the historian C. L. Kingsford at the beginning of the century, the complete collection is reissued here, with a new introduction and annotation by Christine Carpenter. In many ways more representative of gentry life than the Paston letters, the Stonor letters and papers will be invaluable to scholars of late medieval England, and will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the Wars of the Roses or life in medieval England.
Author : Steven Hobbs
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Church records and registers
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Author : Steven Gunn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0191634883
The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his regime stood his new men, low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will and in the process built their own careers and their families' fortunes. Some are well known, like Sir Edward Poynings, governor of Ireland, or Empson and Dudley, executed to buy popularity for the young Henry VIII. Others are less famous. Sir Robert Southwell was the king's chief auditor, Sir Andrew Windsor the keeper of the king's wardrobe, Sir Thomas Lovell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer so trusted by Henry that he was allowed to employ the former Yorkist pretender Lambert Simnel as his household falconer. Some paved the way to glory for their relatives. Sir Thomas Brandon, master of the horse, was the uncle of Henry VIII's favourite Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. Sir Henry Wyatt, keeper of the jewel house, was father to the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. This volume, based on extensive archival research, presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the new men. It analyses the offices and relationships through which they exercised power and the ways they gained their wealth and spent it to sustain their new-found status. It establishes their importance in the operation of Henry's government and, as their careers continued under his son, in the making of Tudor England.
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Archaeology
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Great Britain
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Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.