But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

Following a wedding breakfast at Buckingham Palace prepared by chef Gabriel Tschumi, the new duchess and her husband honeymooned at Polesden Lacey, a manor house in Surrey, and then went to Scotland, where she caught " unromantic " whooping cough.

After stating the assessment of the manor, the record sets forth the amount of arable land, and the number of plough teams ( each reckoned at eight oxen ) available for working it, with the additional number ( if any ) that might be employed ; then the river-meadows, woodland, pasture, fisheries ( i. e. fishing weirs ), water-mills, salt-pans ( if by the sea ) and other subsidiary sources of revenue ; the peasants are enumerated in their several classes ; and finally the annual value of the whole, past and present, is roughly estimated.

The second period was when the castle, then in need of repair, was converted into a manor in 1462 by Geoffrey Boleyn.

The manor and castle were then sold by his father-in-law, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, to Hewer Edgeley Hewer ( heir to William Hewer, Samuel Pepys ' onetime servant and later protégé in the Admiralty ).

The original lord of the manor of Ickenham was Geoffrey de Mandeville, from whom it passed to William de Brock and then, in 1334, to John Charlton whose son John owned Swakeleys from 1350.

Edward III gave the manor of Kennington to his oldest son Edward, the Black Prince in 1337, and the prince then built a large royal palace between what is now Black Prince Road and Sancroft Street, near to Kennington Cross.

The manor house was sacked in 1688, as its then owner Sir Henry Bond was a Roman Catholic and staunch supporter of James II.

Plumstead manor, together with the church of Plumstead and the chapel of Wickham annexed to it remained part of the possessions of the monastery until its final dissolution in 1539, the 30th year of the reign of Henry VIII, when the abbey and all its revenues were surrendered into the King's hands by the then abbot, John Essex and its thirty members.

At this time the manor lands included Wimbledon Common ( then called a heath ) and the enclosed parkland around the manor house.

The town is bound to send to the sheriffs of Norwich every year one hundred herrings, baked in twenty four pasties, which the sheriffs are to deliver to the lord of the manor of East Carlton who is then to convey them to the King.

Historically the name Glossop refers to the small hamlet that gave its name to an ancient parish recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and then the manor given by William I of England to William Peverel.

This is in reference to the public manor road that went north from the manor along the east side of the Hudson to where Troy now is, and then turned east across the area to Hoosick on the Vermont border, ( the latter half of the road is basically today's Route 7, and is still known as Hoosick Road ).

In 1955, what then remained of William Smith's original manor was primarily located in Ridge and was surrounded by the world growing up around it, in the form of the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the surrounding towns becoming increasingly populated.

A second possibility is that Roger's son, Hugh Bigod, built it during the years of the Anarchy in the 1140s on the site of an existing manor house ; the castle would then be similar to the Bigod fortification at Bungay.

The manor house and lands were then owned by Lord William Howard ( the Lord High Admiral, and later 1st Baron Howard of Effingham ) and it was his son the 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham ( later 1st Earl of Nottingham ) who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada.

In 1585, Thomas Stanhope bought the manor house which was known as Bretby Hall and from then on was the home of the Earls of Chesterfield.

In the 13th century, Archbishop Grey bought the manor house at what was then St. Andrewthorpe and gave it to the Dean and Chapter of York Minster.

In 1855 the manor as then constituted, including the manor house, was sold to Frances Barlow for £ 20, 500.

Before the passing of an Enclosure Act 1817, the freemen of York, who were occupiers of houses within a division or ward of the city, called Monk Ward, were, together with certain other persons, entitled to common of pasture and right of stray or average, and had immemorially used and enjoyed the same, in and over a parcel of ground called Heworth Moor, of which G. A. Thweng, lord of the manor of Heworth, was then seised in fee ; another piece of land, called Heworth Grange, of which the king was then seised in fee ; and certain closes and other parcels of ground, called Hall Fields, of which E. Prest and others were then seised in fee.

It was purchased by the lord of a local manor, who passed it to William Bullock for public display in London where it created a sensation.

When they died, the holding normally passed to their next heir-who might be the eldest son / daughter ( primogeniture ); or youngest son / daughter ( Borough English or ultimogeniture ); or a division between children ( partible inheritance ), depending upon the custom of that particular manor.

Donington manor is also thought to have been passed from John de la Rye to Peter of Savoy about 1255, when a charter was granted for a market to be held at the manor on Saturdays.

After the manor came into the possession of Edward III he passed it to his son Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, founder of the Yorkist line.

At the end of the 14th century Edward III acquired Blemond's manor, and passed it on to the Carthusian monks of the London Charterhouse, who kept the area mostly rural.

Edward III acquired Blemond's manor, and passed it on to the Carthusian monks who governed it until Henry VIII granted it to the Earl of Southampton.

After her execution, the manor returned to the King who held it until his death in 1547, when it passed to his final wife Katherine Parr, who lived in the house with her stepdaughter Princess Elizabeth.

Upon Sir Thomas ' death in 1510, the manor passed to Sir John Peeche as his executor.

The manor belonged to the Archbishops of Canterbury until the time of Henry VIII, when it passed by exchange to the Crown.

Following the King's execution in 1649, the manor passed rapidly through various parliamentarian ownerships including Leeds MP Adam Baynes and civil war general John Lambert but, following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, was back in the ownership of Henrietta Maria ( now Charles I's widow and mother of the new King, Charles II ).

Before 1066 the manor of Wakefield belonged to Edward the Confessor and it passed to William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings.

When that family died out in 1508, the manor and castle passed to George Manners, who inherited the castle and barony through his mother.

Upon Gregory's death, the manor passed to his cousin George Gregory and then in 1860 to a distant relative, John Sherwin-Gregory.

The manor passed through several sets of disparate hands in the twentieth century.

In 1704 the manor passed to the Uthwatts, his relatives, and extended the house over time.

Charles I gave the manor of Ribbesford ( in whose parish the Borough of Bewdley lies ) to his brothers in 1627 and they passed it to him.

Abbot Gervace subsequently assigned the manor to his mother, and it passed into private ownership.

By the 13th century Count Alan ’ s manor had passed into the hands of the Lascelles family, who may have been resident landlords and were closely involved with the parish church.

This manor is earliest known to be held by Auduid, the Old English spelling of Old Swedish Ødhvidh, who once held Hanging Grimston near Kirby Underdale jointly with Godrida in the time of Edward the Confessor, but was passed to Osward and Rodmund by the time of the Domesday Book.

The other half of the manor passed to John Sigston of Allertonshire, granted free warren here, to the Pigot family and thenceforth to the Metcalfes.

The history of the manor begins in 1335 when King Edward III gave the manor of Datchet to William de Montacute, who then passed it on to Sir John Molins, who held it until 1631.