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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… first framed in the reign of Edward VI, which, Dean Peacock wrote, 'gave the first complete example of this … or Hesiod or Isocrates' and grammar. The third at 3 p.m. was a rhetoric lecture 'of some part of Tully'. In … 371; Dyer, Privileges, i. 104; Cooper, Annals, i. 2734. H. O. Evennett, 'B. John Fisher and Cambridge', Clergy …
A History of the County of Chester
… The V.C.H. Cheshire appeal THE V.C.H. CHESHIRE APPEAL The following … Brown, Huntington G. Burkinshaw, Exeter Dr. and Mrs. A. J. P. Campbell, Tattenhall Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Carnwath, Sandiway … Dodleston Mr. and Mrs. D. Okell, Great Barrow J. H. Peacock, Esq., Little Sutton Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Pickering, …
Survey of London
… John Foulds (17421815), his engineer assistant, with James Peacock, Assistant Clerk of Works, and James and William … Canal, was Joint Committee Engineer from 1893 to 1898, H. C. Baggallay took up that post in 1898, and he was … reported to the Secretary and General Manager, Robert P. Philipson, who in turn reported to the main committees. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Monuments: In chancelon E. wall, (1) to Richard King, S.T.P., vicar of the parish and chaplain to James I., black and … the roofs are tiled. It is of modified half-H-shaped plan with the wings extending towards the W. The … b (16). House, farmhouse, now two tenements, (see Plate, p. xxv) 400 yards S.S.E. of Cust Hall (4), was built, …
Old and New London
… the "Conjurer." He died here in 1784. In 1826, Mr. E. H. Baily, R.A., the sculptor, was living here; as also was … Scene in Macbeth," and the "Vow of the Ladies and the Peacock." One of Mr. Maclise's latest works was "The Earls of …
The Environs of London
… this manor to John Cage, from whom it passed to the Peacock family. Rechard, relict of Richard Peacock, having survived her children (who, being fourteen in … kept up at her own expence. History of Hertfordshire, p. 304. History of St. Alban's, vol. ii. p. 499. The descent …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was built. A key weighing 1 lb. and a crown were found' (p. 20). Gent. Mag. Mar. 1803, p. 220. Subs. R. Lancs, bdle. … a settlement made in 1548; Duchy of Lane. Plead. lii, H, 5; lv, H, 13. About the same time Katherine widow of … of Blackrod was confiscated by the Parliament in 1652; Peacock, Index of Royalists (Index Soc), 43. He afterwards …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the upper rooms is a good 17th-century fireplace with a peacock boldly carved on the chimney-piece above. Families … the old schoolhouse is a stone inscribed JOHN & MARY H ESKETH 1698 In a pleading of that year (Assize R. 408, m. … 1323 holding lands in Singleton, Claughton, &c.; Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. II, no. 45. His son Adam, afterwards a knight, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… land tax return of 1789 shows that the Earl of Derby, Sir H. Mainwaring, and Blundell were the chief landowners. An … was settled on Henry, younger son of Sir Adam. Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 12; the inquisition after the death of … covered the whole township; they went up Chipping Brook, Peacock Brook, Carr Hey Brook, east to Threapleigh, to Burn …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… but more probably a summer-house, with the initials H.G. (Henry Greenhalgh) and the date 1709 on the door-head. … m. 24 b. Henry was a juror in 1387 and 1394; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 27, 49. Robert de Greenhalgh occurs … been included in the third of the Acts of Sale, 1652; Peacock, Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 41. Dugdale, Visit. …