That family was from a town called Bradninch, England, just outside the town of Exeter.

Bradninch dates back to before the 7th century and at this time there was a Saxon fortress on Castle hill.

During the First World War, Bradninch Hall was used as a Red Cross hospital and the students were moved to Hartwell House and two houses in Pennsylvania Road.

He was also appointed as steward of Bradninch by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587.

The king granted to this son of his the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon, which had escheated to the crown from William Capra, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding that barony.

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

Daniel's father, Squire ( his first name, not a title ) Boone ( 1696 – 1765 ) emigrated from the small town of Bradninch, Devon ( near Exeter, England ) to Pennsylvania in 1713, to join William Penn's colony of dissenters.

Around the time of the American Revolution, Milltown became more commonly known as Downingtown after the prominent businessman Thomas Downing, a Quaker immigrant in 1717 from Bradninch, Devon, England, who owned a number of those mills.

Bradninch is a small town and former manor in Devon, England, lying about three miles south of Cullompton.

The place-name ' Bradninch ' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ' Bradenese '; the name is thought to mean ' broad oak '.

Notable buildings in the town include Bradninch Guildhall, the Castle Pub, the manor house, Earlsland House, Comfort House, and the parish church.

In the 2010 UK General Election, the new constituency of Central Devon, which includes Bradninch, returned a Conservative Member of Parliament, Mel Stride.

According to the Office for National Statistics Bradninch Ward had a population of 1, 775 in April 2001.

In 1906 the city council bought the house, extended it and renamed it as Bradninch Hall.

The caput was not consistent either: women, for instance, were often valued at half a caput, and sometimes at other values.

" Philip Melanchthon, a writer during the Reformation, suggested that Romans was caput et summa universae doctrinae christianae (" a summary of all Christian doctrine ").

The first possibility is that the castle was built by Roger Bigod in either the late 11th century or around 1100, similar to the founding of Bigod's caput at nearby Eye.

Lelio Sozzini was the first of the Italian Antitrinitarians to go beyond Arian beliefs in print and deny the pre-existence of Christ in his Brevis explicatio in primum Johannis caput – a commentary on the meaning of the Logos in John Chapter 1: 1 – 15 ( 1562 ).

Often, an intermediate dish was served before the real caput cenae which was the dinner.

It was on this journey that Schoolcraft, with the help of an educated missionary companion, created the name Itasca from the Latin words for " truth " and " head " ( veritas caput ).< ref name =" DNRweb "> Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Itasca.

The Ojibwe name for " Lake Itasca " was Omashkoozo-zaaga ' igan ( Elk Lake ); this was changed by Henry Schoolcraft to " Itasca ", coined from a combination of the Latin words veritas (" truth ") and caput (" head ").

" Crendon " was the caput of the feudal honour held by Walter Giffard ( died 1102 ), created Earl of Buckingham by William the Conqueror.

Okehampton was the caput of a large feudal barony which was held at the time of Domesday Book by Baldwin FitzGilbert.

He was given by his father the modest lordship of Le Neubourg, in central Normandy, 12 km NE of his father's caput of Beaumont-le-Roger on the River Risle.

He was the third son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and the husband of Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, one of the co-heirs to the ancient barony by writ of Mauley ( or Maulay ), which superseded the feudal barony the caput of which was at Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, which barony by writ had become extinct in 1415.

Coin flipping as a game was known to the Romans as " navia aut caput " (' ship or head '), as some coins had a ship on one side and the head of the emperor on the other.

Wakefield formed the caput of an extensive baronial holding that extended to Cheshire and Lancashire and was held by the Warennes

Ormond Castle was the caput of the Barony of Ormonde, and was created into an Earldom in 1445 for Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde, third son of James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.

The wedge ( έμβολον, embolon in Greek ; cuneus in Latin, colloquially also caput porcinum, " boar's head "), was used by both infantry and cavalry.

the Latin caput porcinum, was invented by Odin himself.

De Burgh was given the honour of Rayleigh by John in 1215 as a reward for his services, but chose not to develop the existing caput of Rayleigh Castle, instead building a new fortification south of the town of Hadleigh.

Raby was the family's caput, their seat of power, and there may have been a fortified house on the site of the present building from around 1300.

On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The example of the kings was followed by the feudal nobles, sometimes by making a temporary concession permanent, sometimes without any form of commendation whatever.

The lay abbot took his recognized rank in the feudal hierarchy, and was free to dispose of his fief as in the case of any other.

This solution was opposed by the new pope, Eugene IV, who was nominal feudal lord of the King of Naples.

Lavoisier was a powerful figure in the deeply unpopular Ferme Générale, 28 feudal tax collectors who were known to profit immensely by exploiting their position.

Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying feudal homage to the King of Poland, Zygmunt August ( Ducal Prussia was a fief of Poland ), on July 19, 1569 in Lublin.

The Bantu-speaking society was highly a decentralized feudal society organized on a basis of kraals ( an enlarged clan ), headed by a chief, who owed a very hazy allegiance to the nation's head chief.

Bishop Wigers ( 1138 – 60 ) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447 ; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation.

This was problematic, as the patroon system of land holding, based on the feudal system and civil law, continued to operate in the colony until it was abolished in the mid-19th century.

As a result, Confucianism was promoted by the emperor and the men its doctrines produced became an effective counter to the remaining feudal aristocrats who threatened the unity of the imperial state.

In a much later period, when Greece was ruled by the Latin Empire, the same strongpoints were used by the new feudal rulers for much the same purposes.

This was most clearly seen in the feudal system, where a lord was expected to enter combat armored and on horseback and bring with him an entourage of peasants on foot.

Calixtus ' reference to the feudal homage due the emperor on appointment is guarded: " shall do unto thee for these what he rightfully should " was the wording of the privilegium granted by Calixtus.

The Declaration was part of a broader diplomatic campaign which sought to assert Scotland's position as an independent kingdom, rather than being a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, as well as lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce.

In the early period of the Crusader era, the Druze feudal power was in the hands of two families, the Tanukhs and the Arslans.

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

Medri Bahri was an area distinguished by a very weak feudal structure, with virtually no serfdom and a strong and democratic landowning peasantry unique for the entire region at this time.

That was easy to shoot compared to the Manhattan Island prison sequences which had few lights, mainly torch lights, like feudal England.

Created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the County of Flanders was divided when its western districts fell under French rule in the late 12th century.