Search
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… Feast of S. Barnabas [11 June]. Moton (Simon), woolmonger.To be buried in the church of S. Olave near the Tower. His … wherein he lived, situate in the said parish of S. Olave, to be sold within two years after his decease, and the … the same work are preserved in the King's Library at the British Museum. The Thomas de Chebeham (or de Cobham) here …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… providing chantries within two years after his decease. To Cristiana his wife all his tenements and rents in … elsewhere within the City of London for life; remainder to pious uses. To Thomas de Brencheslegh, his nephew, his … late Mr. Thomas Wright from Cotton MS. Titus D. xx. in the British Museum, and privately printed in 1882, there occur …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… Agnes within Aldresgate and the reversion of certain shops to be sold. Dated 26 August, A.D. 1327. Roll 57 (1). Horn 1 (Andrew).To the Chamber of the Guildhall of London he leaves a great … and of the Cottonian MS. Claudius D. II., preserved in the British Museum; and that both the books denominated 'De …
Survey of London
… Square, lies between Amwell Street and Farringdon Road to the east and west, and Lloyd Baker Street and Rosebery Avenue to the north and south (Ill. 315). It covers the greater part … Working Men's Club & Institute, and was later used by the British Legion and the Finsbury United Services Club Ltd, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 2600 acres. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to the rectory of Hockwold, and valued in the king's books at … church, which has been enlarged, was originally a chapel to the vicarage of St. Mary Magdalene, in Taunton, to which … by Baxter to have been the Caer-Guilo, or capital of the British prince, Caroilius, and subsequently a seat of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… SCHOOLS The Free School was founded with a bequest of 600 to the rector and churchwardens as trustees from Walter Dyer, … churchwardens and approved by the Bishop of Salisbury, was to be paid 20 a year to teach reading, writing, arithmetic … became a daily school and was affiliated to the Union of British Schools. In 1858 between 150 and 170 children were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… century. In the N. wall is a window of two lights, similar to the E. window, and also largely modern; at the level of … with a modern frame which opens into the stair turret to the porch-chamber. Further W. is the 12th-century S. … Strangman, c. 1570, formerly in the church, is now in the British Museum. Door: In the S. doorwaytwo leaves, each of …
The Environs of London
… In a survey of the manor, dated 1612, this parish is said to contain 1648 acres of cultivated land; its whole extent is … swampy 1. Wimbledon is charged the sum of 471 l. 8 s. to the land-tax, which, in the year 1791, was at the rate of … tracts on military affairs 47, which remain in MS. in the British Museum. The date of Lord Wimbledon's death is not …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… from the E. Dorset heathland in the S.E., north-westwards to Cranborne Chase. The central and northern parts of the … Wimborne St. Giles stands near the centre of the parish. To the S. of St. Giles lay Philipston, now deserted ( Dorset … 2468.) Roman and Prehistoric (36) Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement (01601775), on Oakley Down, associated …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… the field lay-out at the S. end; on the higher ground to the N. it is comparatively straight. The land exhibits the … variation from boulder clay in the N., where it rises to a scarp over 250 ft. above O.D., through chalk and gault, … in various marbles, according to R. Gunnis ( Dictionary of British Sculptors 16601851), 127 [1953] by Thomas Denman; on …