Under the feudal system the King owned all land and others could only hold it as the King's tenants. Transfers between tenants were known as 'alienations' and this required a licence from the King. Robert Dudley set up an office to manage this system, and to collect the fees and fines. Its role changed and shrunk over the years and by 1835 the system of land conveyancing meant that the Alienation Office could be abolished.
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Alienation Office
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Alienation Office
"Act 5 and 6 Will. IV.Cap.82" refers to a legal instrument created during the...
Other Subjects
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Councillor Ian Wilder
Councillor for the West End Ward from 2002 to 2009.
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Ramsay MacDonald
Born at Lossiemouth, on the Moray Firth, Scotland. The first Labour Prime Minister: 1924, 1929-35. The first prime minister to give cabinet office to a woman (Margaret Bondfield). Died on the lin...
1 memorial
Charlie Sumner
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Given on the mural as ‘Edwin Summer’.
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