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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the Nene) … and has been imposed upon an earlier structure. Oliver Goldsmith is reputed to have written She stoops to conquer …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Castle CASTLE The castle, not mentioned in Domesday Book, is traditionally said to have been first built by William the Conqueror after the submission of Hereward. 27 It may … breaking out of the prison in 1291, and in 1315 Richard Lambert of Lynn, illegally imprisoned in Wisbech Castle, was …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wigston, Wiston WIGSTON, WISTON. In Wiseton of the kings Soc of Oswaldebek belonging to Maunsfeild also, was one car. for the geld. 1 The land two car. seven sochm. seven vill. four … a young gentleman of this family, much esteemed by Gen. Lambert, was killed before Scarborough Castle, about the year …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at … Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum … upon his attainder for participation in the affair of Lambert Simnel. It was then granted with other lands of Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC HISTORY Medieval Trade and Industry During the earlier 13th century the recently founded borough, … Among them were members of the long-established Hering, Lambert, Abingdon, and Standlake families, who often held … that some were also prominent merchants or traders: Robert Lambert, who owned three houses and 20 a., was presumably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor …
A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century … the chaplain (fl. 1279), possibly the same as Richard Lambert who resigned in 1306, and Richard Dormer (fl. 1330s); of those, Lambert belonged to a prominent family of Witney burgesses. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a parish and suburb of London adjoining Walthamstow on the E. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Mary has been entirely re-built, except the tower, which is said to have been built in 1720. The … with the initials and date I LB 1580, possibly for John Lambert, grocer. On the S. side are cartouches of arms of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree hundred. … the present entrance to Snakes Lane. It was built by John Lambert, a London grocer: arms of the Grocers' Company … internal decorations and a stone escutcheon outside bore Lambert's initials and those of his third wife with the date …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the … in the 1720s. 87 In 1727 John Morse (d. 1737), a London goldsmith, 88 bought the house and in 1737 gave it to a …