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History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… D.H. The traditional courts and their successors in Ghana's legal history, 1800-1914. Brown, A.K.M. Ph.D., London. 1971 … special reference to the Mandates system and S.W. Africa. Smith, I.C. B.Phil., St. Andrews. Supervised by Seed, G. The … S. Mossamedes and its hinterland, 1875-1915. Clarence-Smith, W.G.R. Ph.D., London. Supervised by Oliver, R.A. …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… the court that the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew's had been under obligation to find a chaplain to sing mass … or prior's house. After the suppression of the Austin Friars in the city in November 1538, Rich took up his abode … St. Bartholomew's, eleven months later, he left the Austin Friars and made the prior's house of St. Bartholomew's 9 his …
Old and New London
… Old St. Pancras Church, and also through that of St. Giles's parish which adjoins it, without any unavoidable … churchyard of Old St. Pancras the line crosses the Regent's Canal, and then passes under the North London Railway, … by the branch which comes up from the Metropolitan at King's Cross, as mentioned above. The lines actually converge near …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… sand and gravel. The following estimate, taken from 'Foot's View of the Agriculture of Middlesex,' reported to the … other. That by Thomas Baird appeared in 1793, Peter Foot's in 1794, and John Middleton's in 1797, with a second edition ten years later. They …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or dry seasons. The rent of such land varies only from 25 s. to 30 s. an acre, 27 s. being a fair average. 2. The stonebrash is … 'Newmarket,' 'Waverley,' 'Potato Oats,' black and grey winter oats, &c. Oats are perhaps the most adaptable of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Country that lay in Wiltshire there was less sheep-walk than in the Chalk Country, dairying became more … to lie still. 62 Land that was never accorded a whole year's bare fallow was to be found in parts of the common fields … Libr.), 9293, 1779, 1979, 3834; Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith, i. 133, 137; vi. 52, 97, 106; Hist. MSS. Com. Var …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… writing of the area around Salisbury in the early 1790's, records much open field mixed with recent inclosure. 4 … dairying, and in sheep, a tendency that bears out Davis's complaints. 20 Some increase in turnip, potato, and … sheep such pasture could carry. It was not hardy enough to walk far for its food and return to the fold. In fact, the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… or cold in thick slices [Raffald (1769, new ed. 1977)]; [Smith (1758, facs. 1994)]. OED earliest date of use of use: … Sources: Diaries, Recipes. References: Raffald (1769), Smith (1758). Alamode hood [alomode hood; allamodes; allamode … Archive, and has not been noted in the dictionaries, but T.S. Willan suggests it may have been a mis-spelling of …
A Dictionary of London
… Alban (St.), Wood Street - Alderman's Walk Alban (St.), Wood Street On the east side of Wood … present alternately with the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. Strype speaks of the church as of great antiquity, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Alban's, St - Aldborough Alban's (St.) ALBAN'S (ST.) a borough and market-town having separate … locally in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's, county of Hertford, 12 miles (W. by S.) from Hertford, and …