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Manors held of the Bishop of Durham in capite, by knight's service, and other tenures, &c.
Date: 1775?]- Books
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An act for dividing and inclosing the moors, Commons, and Waste Grounds, in the Manors of Ugglebarnby and Eskdaleside, in the Parish of Whitby, and County of York.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1760]- Books
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An act for inclosing and dividing the common fields, Common Pastures, Waste Grounds, and Commonable Lands, in the Manors and Parish of Sow, in the County of Warwick, and County of the City of Coventry.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1756]- Books
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An act for confirming and establishing articles of agreement for dividing and inclosing several commons, Common Heaths, and Waste Grounds, in the adjoining Manors of East Lulworth and Combe Keynes, in the County of Dorset.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1761]- Books
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An act for impowering the Honourable Charles Howard, Esq; to raise money by sale or mortgage of the manors of Walden, alias Chipping Walden, Brook-Walden, and other Manors and Lands therein mentioned, for payment of the debts of Charles William, late Earl of Suffolk and Bindon, deceas'd.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1728]- Books
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An act for dividing, Inclosing, and Allotting, the Moors, Commons, and waste Grounds, commonly called Pool Common, within the Manors of Lanverchidol and Street Marcel, otherwise Street Marshall, in the Parishes of Pool and Guilsfield, in the County of Montgomery.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1761]- Books
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An act for dividing, Inclosing, and Alloting, the Moors, Commons, and waste Grounds, commonly called Pool Common, within the Manors of Lanverchidol and Stret Marcel, otherwise Street Marshall, in the Parishes of Pool and Guilsfield, in the County of Montgomery.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1761]- Books
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An act for raising money out of the personal estate of the late Duchess of Buckinghamshire and Normanby, deceased, to renew a Lease of certain Manors and Estates in the County of York, in the Manner, and for the Purposes, therein mentioned.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1759]- Books
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An act to ascertain, Establish, and Confirm the Boundaries of the Manors and Parishes of North Mims and Northaw, so far as the same extends to and upon the several Commons called North Mims and Northaw Common, in the County of Hertford.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1757]- Books
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The compleat English copyholder: or, a guide to lords of manors, Justices of the Peace, Tenants, Stewards, Attornies, Bailiffs, Constables, Gamekeepers, Haywards, Reeves, Surveyors of the Highways, &c. being the Common and Statute Law of England, together with the adjudged Cases relating to Manors, Copyhold Estates, Courts-Leet and Courts-Baron, Common Placed; Containing the whole practice of the Court-Leet, Court of ancient Demesne, Court-Baron, and Musick-Court of the Honour of Tutbury, and the Business of a Manor in all its Branches. And Also The Tenures, Customs, and Usages of several Manors in England and Wales, shewing who has Right to attend the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain, or to perform other Scrvices to them, or the Lords of the several Manors, collected from Records, Manuscripts, and printed Books; with Directions for distraining for rent; by the late Sir Bartholomew Shower. ... . By a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Gentleman of the Inner Temple.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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An act for vesting the forests and manors of Singleton and Charlton, and other Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in the Counties of Sussex and Wilts, in Trustees, and their Heirs, upon the Trusts therein-mentioned, freed and discharged from the Estates, Uses and Trusts, to which the same are at present subject, and for other Purposes therein-mentioned.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1758]- Books
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An act for vesting divers manors, lands, and hereditaments, in the Counties of Buckingham, Northampton, Salop, and Stafford, devised by the Will of Evelyn late Duke of Kingston, in the present Duke of Kingston, in Fee-Simple; and for settling other Manors, Lands, and Hereditaments, in the County of Nottingham, of greater Value, in lieu thereof, to the like Uses.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1759]- Books
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Annuities on lives, and for limited terms of years, considered: Being Observations on What hath been lately advanced by divers authors, tending to depreciate the Value of Estates on those Tenures. To which is Added, A supplement to the Gentleman's Steward, and Tenants of Manors Instructed. By John Richards, of Exon.
Richards, John, 1690-1778.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Geodæsia improved; or, a new and correct method of surveying made exceeding easy. In two parts. Part I, Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any Quantity of Land both accessible and inaccessible, whether Meadows, Pasture, Fields, Woods, Water, Commons, Forests, Manors, &c. by the chain only, whose Dimensions are cast up by the pen, and consequently freed from the errors of estimation that unavoidably attend the Scale and Protractor. With necessary Directions to map elegantly. Part II, Introduces Instruments, Trigonometry, preparative Remarks on the Earth's Superficies; and teacheth the invaluable Method of casting up the Dimensions of Instruments by the pen several Ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. With a most useful appendix Concerning the practical Methods of measuring Timber, Hay, Marl Pits, Bricklayers and Plaisterers Work. The whole being illustrated with proper Definitions, Problems, Rules, Examples, Explanations, and emblematical Types, rendered uncommonly easy. By A. Burns, Teacher of the Mathematics in Tarporley, Cheshire.
Burns, Arthur.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The history of the High Court of Parliament, its antiquity, preheminence and authority; and the history of Court Baron and Court Leet, A Chronological History of them from the earliest Times drawn down to the present. Together with the rights of Lords of Manors in common pastures, and the Growth of the Privileges the Tenants now enjoy there. ...
Gurdon, Thornhagh, 1663-1733.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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An act to impower certain persons to enfranchise several customary lands and hereditaments, Parcel of the several Manors of Nicol Forest, Solport, and Bewcastle, in the County of Cumberland, late the Estates of the Honourable Catherine Widdrington Widow, deceased, directed to be settled to certain Uses by the Will and Codicil of the said Catherine Widdrington, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1759]- Books
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The history of Framlingham, in the county of Suffolk;including brief notices of the Masters and Fellows of Pembroke-Hall, in Cambridge, from the foundation of the College, to the present time. Begun by the late Robert Hawes, Gent. Steward of the Manors of Framlingham and Saxted. With considerable additions and notes, by Robert Loder. Illustrated with ten Elegant Copper-Plates.
Hawes, Robert, 1665-1731.Date: 1798- Books
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Particulars of, and conditions of sale for, a capital freehold and copyhold estate, in the county of Surry; called Puttenham Priory, Situate between Guildford and Farnham, and about four Miles from Godalmin; Consisting of large and extensive Manors, a most elegant Mansion House, in perfect Repair, compleat Offices, Gardens, a Paddock containing Fifty-Four Acres of rich Land, beautifully laid out in the present Taste, with Walks abounding with charming Prospects, and elegant Shrubberies and Plantations. Also a small Farm in Hand, and several other Farms let to respectable Tenants, at the yearly Rent of Six Hundred and Twenty Pounds and upwards. Which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, At their House in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday the 30th day of March 1775, In six distinct lots, Beginning punctually at twelve O'Clock.
Mr. Langford and Son.Date: 1775]- Books
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A letter to James Stannus, Esq. By Mr. William Hill; in answer to a letter from Mr. Stannus, written as sovereign of the Corporation of Portarlington, affecting to dismiss Mr. Hill from the office of Seneschal of the Manors. To which he was appointed by the Earl of Portarlington. In which the power of the sovereign of Portarlington is considered, and a short view taken of the interest of the Right Honorable the Earl of Portarlington in the town and Corporation of Portarlington.
Hill, William, Mr.Date: printed in the year 1797- Books
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Facts, fully established, and submitted to the consideration of every member of both Houses of Parliament, to the Lords of Manors, and to the attention of the people at large, who consider themselves aggrieved by the abuse of power, displayed in the cruelty and oppression of the game laws. In which their inefficacy is clearly demonstrated, their desstructive tendency pointed out, and proposals offered for making game, guns, and dogs, contribute largely to the exigencies of the state, under an act of liberal accommodation, adequate to the wishes of all parties.
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Particulars of and conditions of sale for, a large and valuable estate, called Goldings; situate near Hertford, about 23 Miles distant from London: lately in the occupation of the Right Honourable the Lady Dowager St. John, deceased; Consisting of the Manors of Waterford Hall and Half Hyde, and the Demesne Lands thereunto belonging; together with a large and elegant Mansion House, with all necessary Out-Offices, a Pleasure Garden, and Wood of 10 Acres, a Kitchen Garden of about two Acres, all walled in, and bounded by about 14 Acres of Pasture Land; adjoining to which is a compact Farm, containing in the whole about 210 Acres; and several other Farms, all let to substantial Tenants, at an yearly Rent of about Six Hundred Pounds. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent garden, on Tuesday the 20th of March 1770, in seven distinct lots, Beginning punctually at Twelve O'Clock, viz. The said Mansion consists, on the attic story, of 7 convenient Bedchambers for Servants, a large Bedchambers neatly finished with Portland chimney pieces, closets, &c.
Mr. Langford and Son.Date: 1770]- Books
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Lex maneriorum: or the law and customs of England, relating to manors and lords of manors, their stewards, deputies, tenants, and others, Viz. Of the Lords Right to Deodands, Felons Goods, Waifs, Estrays, Wrecks, and Goods of Felo de se. Of the Privileges of their Tenants in ancient Demesne, and of Widow's Free Bench, &c. Of Copyhold Estates, Courts-Leet, Courts-Baron, and By-Laws there made, and of Amerciaments, Fines and Heriots, and how to be recovered. Of Surrenders and Admittances to Copyholds, and of Entailing them, and of Barring and Discontinuing such Entails by Fines and Recoveries in the Lord's Court, and by other Methods. Of Leases made by Copyholders with Licence, and without; Also of Forfeitures and other Determinations of their Estates. The Whole being a methodical Collection of the Cases dispersed in the several Volumes of the Law relating to Copyhold Estates, and to every Thing depending on that Tenure. To which is added an appendix of all the modern entries of declarations, Pleas, Replications, Rejoinders, Demurrers, Issues, Special Verdicts, Writs of Recordari, Certiorari, &c. relating to the said Cases. With proper tables to the whole. The second edition, with additions. By William Nelson of the Middle Temple, Esq;
Nelson, William, 1653-Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Customs and privileges of the manors of Stepney and Hackney in the county of Middlesex. Viz. Of tenants neglect, admission, &c. amercements, annoyances, appearance at two courts yearly, buildings, by-laws, claim, copyholders, drivers of common, fines, forfeitures, guardian, gavelkind, homage, heir, last will, leases, leet, mears and stakes, partition, quit-rents, reeve, recovereies, recognition, Stewards fees, severing, waste, &c. To which is prefix'd an act of perpetual establishment of the said customs and privileges, and for confirmation of the copyhold estates and customs of divers copyholders of the said manors, according to certain indentures of agreement, and a decrce in the High Court of Chancery, made between the lord of the said manors and the copyholders. With two alphabetical tables.
Hackney (London, England : Manor)Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Fragmenta antiquitatis; or, antient tenures of land, and jocular customs of some manors / Made public for the diversion of some, and instruction of others, by Thomas Blount.
Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.Date: 1784- Books
Fragmenta antiquitatis; or, ancient tenures of land, and jocular customs of manors / Originally published by Thomas Blount, esq. ... Enl. and cor. by Josiah Beckwith ... With considerable additions from authentic sources, by Hercules Malebysse Beckwith.
Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.Date: 1815