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A new & compendious history of the county of Warwick; from the earliest period to the present time, comprising views, of the principal towns, buildings, modern improvements ... - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...this manor belonged to Sir William Bagot, whose daughter and heir, with her husband, Thomas Stafford, Esq., sold it to John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, from whom it descended to Henry de Bullenbrook, afterwards King Henry IV., who gave it "to the dean and chapter of the collegiate church in Leicester, and their successors for ever; reserving the rent of ten marks to be paid yearly by them to the chantry priests in that church; subject to the performance of certain religious ceremonies." After its dissolution, Edward VI. granted it to Thomas Hawkins, alias Fisher, of Warwick, who disposed of it to John Smythe, by whom it was occupied as a farm, and has subsequently become the property of various owners and occupiers. Comprises the following parishes, hamlets, and chapelry; Ascote (or chapel Ascot); Bridingbury; Granborough; Hides pastures, (hamlet); Hodwell, (exIra parochial); lioningham; Itchington; Bishop's Itchington, long; Ladhrooke; Leamington Mastung; Marlon; Napton on the Hill; Radburn, lower, (extra parochial); liadburn, Upper, (extra parochial); Shuckburgh, upper; Southam; Stockton; Wappenbury, with Eathrope; Watergall, (extra parochial); Weston under Wetherby; Will's-pastures, (extra parochial); Wolfhamcote. Southam, Is a small market town in the high road from Coventry to Bambury, and is distant from the former place twelve miles: the turnpike road leading from Warwick to the metropolis, passes through; and, from the traffic on these roads, the town derives ils chief emolument. It has a weekly market, at which little business is transacted: in Doomsday-book it is written Sucham, and the town iy there said to contain four hides, having two mills rated at 4. and woods of one mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, all of which were in...
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