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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… in the early 20th century the pioneering meteorologist W.H. Dines (d. 1927) built a small (now-demolished) observatory … of Fifield in 1662 to the Wallingford maltster Richard Sayer or Sawyer. 10 Sawyer's grandson sold it in 1708 to … ill prepared. 18 Further improvement came under J.M. Collyns (185867), who by the 1860s reported positive …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… were founded in 1681, and endowed with 1000, by Mr. John Sayer; whose endowment was augmented with 300 by his widow, … of the Ascension, which cost 500, the bequest of Mr. J. Harcourt, was put up in 1845. The living is a perpetual … Exeter, the Fursdon family, the Rev. E. W. Richards, and J. D. Basset, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for 545, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the sixteenth century paid yearly 20 s. 152 In 1674 John Sayer, cook to Charles II, who had a lease of Berkhampstead … Court of Exchequer on 27 November, 1674, in favour of John Sayer. 154 The markets now held are so small as to be … Domesday Book and Beyond, 214. P.R.O. Anct. D. A. 849. V.C.H. Herts. i, 317 b. As we find later repeated statements that …
A History of the County of Hertford
… of Mr. W. E. Costin, and the nursery gardens of Messrs. H. Lane & Son, give occupation to many persons. The town, … 26 Further westward along the High Street are the Sayer Almshouses, dated 1684, a range of low red brick … An interesting suggestion has been made by Mr. W. H. St. J. Hope that they are platforms thrown up for the siege …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 160 children. Almshouses for six aged men, founded by Mr. Sayer, of Nettlestead, in the county of Suffolk, and endowed … have been greatly improved by the incumbent, the Rev. J. W. Watts. The church, which is supposed to have been built …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… with Michael Joseph, London Adair (1790) Adair, J.M. (1790), Essays in Fashionable Disorders, Bateman, London … Anon (1908), A Book of Simples, with an Introduction by H.W. Lewer, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., London The … both Useful and Ornamental finally engraved, printed by Sayer, London, reduced facsimile, Alec Tiranti, London …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… afterwards Duke of Buckingham: it was sold in 1681 to Mr. Sayer; was purchased of his family by Earl Verney; and in … of the Gresleys, and is now the property and residence of J. Bateman, Esq. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued …
A History of the County of Essex
… predominated in the large amounts of land held by the Sayer and Birch families in the 14th century. 81 In the early … the Essex County Show was held at Birch Park. 29 Lt. Col. J. G. Round sold some of his land, 30 and Strutt and Parker … in Colchester and other towns, and also in London. V.C.H. Essex, i. 466, 498, 518; above, this par., Manors. E.R.O., …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… of Ælfwold, his predecessor at Sherborne, in 1059, see J. Earle, A Hand-Book to the LandCharters, and other Saxonic Documents (Oxford, 1888) p. 301, cal. P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: an annotated list and … by Lanfranc to stay on ( Letters of Lanfranc, ed. V. H. Clover and M. T. Gibson (OMT, 1979) pp. 34-7). Present at …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… 22 March 1136 ( Gesta Stephani, ed. K. R. Potter and R. H. C. Davis (OMT 1976) app. p. xxxix; John of Worcester III … viii fo. 137v; cf. Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon, ed. J. Stevenson (RS lxvi, 1875) p. 162, where he is said to have … Oseney p. 92; Chron. Wykes pp. 91-2). D. 21 Dec. 1247 (H. Wharton, Anglia Sacra (1691) I 565 n., citing Ann. …