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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cathedral, of which the only one now remaining is Edgar's tower. In 1041, a tax imposed by Hardicanute excited an … when endeavouring to shelter themselves in Edgar's tower, and put them to death. To punish this outrage, the … and the remainder chiefly arable; the soil is a dry brown mould, resting on limestone. The neighbourhood abounds …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… the ten canons, all of whose prebends were in the king's gift, and were always referred to by their numbers. 1 A few … dioceses. The prebends reverted to being in the sovereign's gift, although Mary granted the right of collation to … canons, copying almost word-for-word the lists given in Brown Willis's Survey of Cathedrals (1742), and thereafter …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Story xx shillings [quil...t?] Inhabitants of St. John's, Worcester. Ref.110 BA1/1/108/127 (1666) Wee the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… a taylor 3 children of one Nicholas 5 of one Jackson's and one of a certeyne woman called Black Besse, all lately … [illegible] county [illegible] [John?] Morley and Thomas [Brown?] [illegible] chirurgeons [That one?] [illegible] of …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of land and a Bordar; and the Abbot of Bury St. Edmund's held the other half, with five acres of land, worth twelve … gules, a cross engrailed, and a canton arg. Fitz-Osbert's shield was gules, 3 bars gemelles or. [Pedigree of … William Plomer 1471 Id. Robert Framlyngham 1492 Id. John Brown 1497 Id. Thomas Byngle 1501 Id. Augustine Thurkle Id. …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Poleghelegh which bordered Robert of Horkesley's wood in 1290, were probably assarts near the Little … 69-90. E.R.O., Q/SBb 472/19, 65. Nat. Soc. file. A. F. J. Brown, Meagre Harvest, 141-2. Beaumont and Taylor, … Lights (Essex Studies v), 13; e.g. E.C.S. 20 Jan. 1854. Brown, Meagre Harvest, 142-3. Beaumont and Taylor, …
A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … 14, Porteus Papers 30. V.C.H. Essex, ii. 349; A. F. J. Brown, Meagre Harvest, 228; Beaumont and Taylor, Wormingford, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 3 miles (S. S. W.) fromYarm; containing 143 inhabitants. This … the neighbourhood, and on the banks of which are some rich dairy-farms. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, …