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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… there came an expansion in the number of the county's paid servants. A chief constable and a police force of 200 … of over 700 per cent. Of the latter figure the surveyor's salary of 260 a year formed a considerable proportion. As … 1866. Bridge, e.g. Q.Sess. Mins. East. 1842: 'That Henry St. Olivier, Rev. Edward Duke, William Curtis, Edward Hinsman …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… change in the character and social status of the county's rulers, though even in 1889 there was the portent of … Limpley Stoke, South Wraxall, and Winsley. 59 Cricklade St. Mary and Cricklade St. Sampson, the boundary between which lay down the middle …
The Environs of London
… with a close paling about five feet high, and Mr. Forsyth's composition has been applied to its decayed branches to … it has long fallen into disuse; there is an annual fair on St. Ethelburgh's day, the 22d of October. In the year 1616, … who sat in the see of London after the building of St. Paul's church by King Ethelbert. The monastic writers speak …
The Environs of London
… A weekly market (on Mondays) was granted to the Abbots of St. Alban's, then lords of the manor, by Henry the Second 2. It is … proprietor 6. The church. The parish church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient structure. Mr. Newcome, …
The Environs of London
… was sold, by his grandson Henry Snelgrave, Esq. to Walter St. John, Esq. 9, in whose family the manor became again … his son, sold a moiety of the manor of Beckenham to Oliver St. John, Esq. 13; from whom it came to Sir Walter St. John, … 19. Sir Thomas Grene, who had purchased it of the Vaux's, died seised of it in 1465 20. About the year 1510, it came …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset; containing 59 inhabitants. Courteenhall (St. Peter and St. Paul) COURTEENHALL ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Hardingstone, hundred of Wymersley, S. division of the county of Northampton, 5 miles (S.) from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Oxford, but except for the pie-powder court held by St. Frideswide's during the fair and the courts of the outlying manors 2 all … is evidence only for the courts of Abingdon abbey and of St. John's hospital. The abbot of Abingdon's court met in …
A Dictionary of London
… Cousen's Lane - Crachemilles Cousen's Lane See Cousin Lane. Cousin … could hardly have been the same persons. Peter Cusyn had a wharf in the parish of All Hallows at the Hay in the Ward of … but probably erected on the site of the Convent garden of St. Mary Graces mentioned in the grant to Sir Arthur Darcy in …
Old and New London
… the following chapter, extending, to speak roughly, from St. Martin's Lane on the west to Drury Lane on the east, and from Long … like Sir Christopher Wren in the cathedral church of St. Paul. In the well-known words of the "Connoisseur," the …
Old and New London
… '[Agopa 'y Athhyais Chaire] Aristoph., "Acharn." St. Paul's Church first builtDestroyed by Fire and rebuiltDispute …