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3 giorni fa · His estates reverted to the Crown, and Wrenmore seems to have passed to Sir Thomas Moyle of Eastwell (Kent), a prominent government official. He was succeeded at Wrenmore by his daughter Katharine, wife of Sir Thomas Finch, also of Eastwell.
4 giorni fa · In 1086 NORTH PETHERTON manor was part of the king's land and had never paid geld. Its holders owed a fee farm to the Crown; in 1761 the farm of 5 guineas was paid to Antony Duncombe, Baron Feversham (d. 1763), presumably by grant.
5 giorni fa · Gilbert was followed by his younger brother Thomas. Thomas's claim was unsuccessfully disputed by his eldest brother Oliver of Edington. Thomas sold the estate to John Devereux in or before 1371, and Devereux in 1375 to Sir Thomas Fichet.
5 giorni fa · Quarrying at King's Cliff had begun by the 14th century when a Langport slater worked there. The quarry was regularly used in the 18th and 19th centuries, and gravel and sand were also extracted in the area in the 1960s. The principal route through the parish joined Bridgwater to Taunton.
2 giorni fa · Seringapatam. 1. 1799–1803 1807–1813 1815. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving ...
3 giorni fa · Cecily Neville. Signature. Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England .
1 giorno fa · Thomas Cromwell ( / ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution. Cromwell was one of the most powerful proponents ...
