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  • The Old Manor House by Charlotte Smith Part 3 19940The Old Manor House — Part 3Charlotte Smith War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should...
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  • ' 'Bohemian Magdalin,' 'The Lords of the Manor,' and 'Romances of the Nobility.' Emilia Pardo Bazan (see page 257) is the most distinguished woman writer...
    529 bytes (1,078 words) - 13:27, 25 December 2021
  • 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Hay (Breconshire) (category Pages with contributor)
    probably as the first fruits of his invasion, to St Peter’s, Gloucester). The manor of Hay, which probably corresponded to some existing Welsh division, he...
    347 bytes (832 words) - 18:31, 23 August 2023
  • at Button's every day. After he had published four plays, which Genest overlooks, his ‘Force of Friendship,’ a tragedy in verse, was acted at the Haymarket...
    455 bytes (867 words) - 12:24, 24 March 2024
  • of his ancestors. The manor house, in internal improvements and finish, resembled the Holland homestead. The lord of the manor resided there with his...
    1 KB (3,929 words) - 20:09, 26 December 2021
  • The New Forest: its history and its scenery/Chapter 13 (category Pages with override author)
    kinsman Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon, the ruins of whose castle still overlook the Avon. Here his son Baldwin de Redvers in vain fortified himself ​against...
    120 bytes (5,056 words) - 23:38, 28 September 2013
  • to his manor of Deepham, and John de Stutvile had the leet to his manor of Kimberley, Will. de Carleton had the leet of Carleton to his manor there, and...
    520 KB (87,265 words) - 19:25, 26 November 2022
  • habit. Its severe and classical building on a corner of Madison Avenue overlooking the Square, is but the outward presentment of an institution to be a...
    261 bytes (2,038 words) - 15:03, 5 August 2018
  • from lands in the manor, as well as in the parish, of Peper Harow. Hence we may fairly infer that Ryhill formed part of Peper Harow manor when it was granted...
    460 bytes (4,284 words) - 08:25, 10 July 2016
  • him to be a smuggler, frequently molested him. In 1848 the lord of the manor claimed rent from him as the owner of the surface ground, and on his denial...
    312 bytes (790 words) - 07:29, 29 December 2020
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Stanley, Montague (category Pages transcluding nonexistent sections)
    its name from the manor of Stanlegh, close to Cheddleton, but settled in Cheshire under Edward II on acquiring, by marriage, the manor of Storeton and the...
    318 bytes (1,584 words) - 02:04, 29 December 2020
  • Archaeological Journal/Volume 1/Rockingham Castle (category Pages using a custom leader spacing in TOC or Index content)
    portion of the northern parts of Northamptonshire, and on a lofty eminence overlooking the green vale of the Welland, stands the formerly Royal Castle of Rockingham...
    556 bytes (7,935 words) - 00:20, 2 December 2023
  • The Ancestor/Number 1/The Origin of the FitzGeralds (category Pages with explicit formatting in header fields)
    Windsor itself he held on the royal manor 1¾ hides and some woodland; that at Kintbury, another Berkshire manor, he held half a hide 'which King Edward...
    506 bytes (3,514 words) - 14:43, 24 July 2018
  • The Ancestor/Number 1/Review: The Gresleys of Drakelowe (category Pages with explicit formatting in header fields)
    next Appendix is devoted to the manors and possessions of the family, an alphabetical list of which covers several pages. This is a most careful piece of...
    527 bytes (3,473 words) - 09:39, 25 July 2018
  • episcopi baiocensis. The abbot of St. Augustin's has half a sowling of this manor in exchange for the park of the bishop of Bayeux." (D. B.) It is not stated...
    731 bytes (15,030 words) - 14:26, 13 September 2011
  • Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Bl. Richard Whiting (category Pages with contributor)
    and Moyle, arrived there without warning. Whiting happened to be at his manor of Sharpham. Thither the commissioners followed and examined him according...
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  • ancient manor once the home of the Delawares. Like all baronial residences of an early date, its site occupies a commanding position, overlooking the great...
    666 bytes (1,447 words) - 12:10, 20 July 2024
  • plan, the myths, with which the history of all lands begins, will not be overlooked, though these will be carefully distinguished from the actual history...
    321 bytes (1,914 words) - 00:16, 10 November 2014
  • furniture was a necessity. Throughout the State might be mentioned other manor houses and settlements contributing to the general need: between the Patuxent...
    266 bytes (2,012 words) - 04:18, 28 February 2024
  • Son, ought to have neutralized his resentment. How came Mr. Croker to overlook the coincidence between the Jacobite Johnson's hatred of an excise tax...
    384 bytes (3,073 words) - 15:29, 5 July 2015
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