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59 relations: Blore, Branscombe, Catherine of Alexandria, Chantry, Church of St Mary, Ilminster, Conveyancing, Dartmoor, Devon, Dorothy Wadham, Drayton Bassett, Duke of Somerset, Edge, Branscombe, Edward de Courtenay, 3rd/11th Earl of Devon, Edward Foss, Edward I of England, Edward III of England, Edward VI of England, English church monuments, Exmoor, Henry IV of England, High Sheriff of Devon, Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd/10th Earl of Devon, Jane Seymour, John Cary (died 1395), John Hill (died 1408), John Prince (biographer), John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, Justice of the Common Pleas, Knights of the Shire, Knowstone, Livery, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lustleigh, Manor, Manor house, Manor of Powderham, Member of parliament, Merryfield, Ilton, Moat, Modbury, Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609), Philip Courtenay (died 1406), Quitclaim deed, Rector (ecclesiastical), Richard II of England, Robert Hill (died 1426), Serjeant-at-law, Silverton, Devon, South Molton, The History of Parliament, ..., Thomas Fuller, Thomas Graham Jackson, Wadham College, Oxford, Wadham, Knowstone, William Hankford, William Henry Hamilton Rogers, William Pole, William Pole (antiquary), William Wadham (died 1452). Expand index (9 more) »
Blore
Blore is a small village and parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands District of England.
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Branscombe
Branscombe is a village in the East Devon district of the English county of Devon.
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Catherine of Alexandria
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, or Saint Catharine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲕⲁⲧⲧⲣⲓⲛ, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς – translation: Holy Catherine the Great Martyr) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius.
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Chantry
A chantry or obiit (Latin: "(s)he has departed"; may also refer to the mass or masses themselves) was a form of trust fund established during the pre-Reformation medieval era in England for the purpose of employing one or more priests to sing a stipulated number of masses for the benefit of the soul of a specified deceased person, usually the donor who had established the chantry in his will, during a stipulated period of time immediately following his death.
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Church of St Mary, Ilminster
The Church of St Mary in Ilminster, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
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Conveyancing
In law, conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of real property from one person to another, or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien.
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Dartmoor
Dartmoor is a moor in southern Devon, England.
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Devon
Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.
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Dorothy Wadham
Dorothy Wadham (née Petre) (1534/1535 – 16 May 1618) was the wife of Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and of Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon and as his widow in pursuance of his wishes, was the foundress of Wadham College, Oxford.
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Drayton Bassett
Drayton Bassett is a village and civil parish in the District of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.
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Duke of Somerset
Duke of Somerset is a title in the peerage of England that has been created several times.
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Edge, Branscombe
Edge, (originally, Egge), is an ancient and historic house in the parish of Branscombe, Devon.
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Edward de Courtenay, 3rd/11th Earl of Devon
Edward de Courtenay, 3rd/11th Earl of Devon (c.1357 – 5 December 1419), known by the epithet the "Blind Earl", was the son of Sir Edward de Courtenay and Emeline Dawnay, and in 1377 succeeded his grandfather, Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon, as Earl of Devon.
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Edward Foss
Edward Foss (16 October 1787 – 27 July 1870) was an English lawyer and biographer.
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Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.
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Edward III of England
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.
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Edward VI of England
Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death.
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English church monuments
A church monument is an architectural or sculptural memorial to a deceased person or persons, located within a Christian church.
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Exmoor
Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England.
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Henry IV of England
Henry IV (15 April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.
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High Sheriff of Devon
The High Sheriff of Devon is the Queen's representative for the County of Devon, a territory known as his/her bailiwick.
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Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd/10th Earl of Devon
Sir Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd/10th Earl of Devon (12 July 1303 – 2 May 1377), 2nd Baron Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton and feudal baron of Plympton, played an important role in the Hundred Years War in the service of King Edward III.
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Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour (c. 150824 October 1537) was Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII.
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John Cary (died 1395)
Sir John Cary (died 1395), of Devon, was a judge who rose to the position of Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1386–88) and served twice as Member of Parliament for Devon, on both occasions together with his brother Sir William Cary, in 1363/4 and 1368/9.
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John Hill (died 1408)
Sir John Hill (died 1408) of Kytton in the parish of Holcombe Rogus, and of Hill's Court in the parish of St Sidwell in the City of Exeter, both in Devon, was a Justice of the King's Bench from 1389 to 1407.
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John Prince (biographer)
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John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton
John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton (19 May 1400 – 25 November 1462) of Stourton, Wiltshire, was an English soldier and politician, elevated to the peerage in 1448.
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Justice of the Common Pleas
Justice of the Common Pleas was a puisne judicial position within the Court of Common Pleas of England and Wales, under the Chief Justice.
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Knights of the Shire
Knights of the shire (milites comitatus) was the formal title for members of parliament (MPs) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 ended the practice of each county (or shire) forming a single constituency.
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Knowstone
Knowstone is a village and civil parish situated in the North Devon district of Devon, England, halfway between the Mid Devon town of Tiverton, Devon and the North Devon town of South Molton.
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Livery
A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body.
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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales.
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Lustleigh
Lustleigh is a small village and civil parish nestled in the Wrey Valley, inside the Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England.
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Manor
A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.
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Manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.
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Manor of Powderham
Powderham is a former manor on the coast of south Devon, England, situated within the historic hundred of Exminster, about south of the city of Exeter and adjacent to the north-east of the village of Kenton.
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Merryfield, Ilton
Merryfield (alias Merrifield, Murefeld, Merefeld, Muryfield, Merifield, Wadham's Castle, etc.) is a historic estate in the parish of Ilton, near Ilminster in Somerset, England.
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Moat
A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.
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Modbury
Modbury is a market town and civil parish in the South Hams district of the English county of Devon.
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Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609)
Nicholas Wadham of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon was a posthumous co-founder of Wadham College, Oxford with his wife Dorothy Wadham who, outliving him, saw the project through to completion in her late old age.
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Philip Courtenay (died 1406)
Sir Philip Courtenay (c.1355 – 29 July 1406), of Powderham, Devon was the fifth son of Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (1303-1377).
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Quitclaim deed
A quitclaim deed is a legal instrument that is used to transfer interest in real property.
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Rector (ecclesiastical)
A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.
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Richard II of England
Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.
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Robert Hill (died 1426)
Sir Robert I Hill (died before 1426), sometimes written Hull, was an English politician and judge from the West Country.
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Serjeant-at-law
A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English bar.
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Silverton, Devon
Silverton is a large village and civil parish, about north of Exeter, in the English county of Devon.
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South Molton
South Molton is a small town in Devon, England.
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The History of Parliament
The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England.
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Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian.
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Thomas Graham Jackson
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet (21 December 1835 – 7 November 1924) was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation.
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Wadham College, Oxford
Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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Wadham, Knowstone
The manor of Wadham in the parish of Knowstone in north Devon and the nearby manors of Chenudestane and Chenuestan (more anciently known as Cnudstone and Cnuston with the possible meaning "Canutestone") are listed in the Domesday Book of 1086: "Ulf holds Wadeham.
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William Hankford
Sir William Hankford (or Hankeford) (c. 1350 – 1423) of Annery in Devon, was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1413 until 1423.
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William Henry Hamilton Rogers
William Henry Hamilton Rogers (1 October 1834 – 20 November 1913), Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), (works published as "W.H. Hamilton Rogers"), of Ridgeway Row in Colyton, Devon, was an English historian and antiquarian who specialised in the West Country of England.
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William Pole
William Pole FRS FRSE MICE (22 April 1814 – 30 December 1900) was an English engineer, astronomer and musician.
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William Pole (antiquary)
Sir William Pole (1561–1635) of Colcombe House in the parish of Colyton, of Southcote in the parish of Talaton and formerly of Shute House in the parish of Shute (adjoining Colcombe), both in Devon, was an English country gentleman and landowner, a colonial investor, Member of Parliament and, most notably, a historian and antiquarian of the County of Devon.
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William Wadham (died 1452)
Sir William Wadham (c.1386–1452) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon came from a West Country gentry family with a leaning towards the law, who originally took their name from the manor of Wadham in the parish of Knowstone, between South Molton and Exmoor, north Devon.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wadham
