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Magna Britannia
… road to Plymouth, Falmouth, and the Land's End, 173 miles from London. 1 The ancient British name of this city, … obstinate resistance. The King, who was then encamped four miles from the city, hearing of this their breach of promise, …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… The Commissioners appointed for Exeter were the Bishop (Miles Coverdale), the Mayor (William Hurst), Sir Thomas …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… the writer's personal knowledge. His notices of Bishop Miles Coverdale ( f. 350, Anno 1553) and of Hugh Latimer's … and devoured Iron barrs. The ashes were blowen above 20 miles. Never was the hand of God more visible. The losse was …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… to take the oath were ordered not to remove more than 5 miles from their houses, which were searched by the …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… did rise) at my Lord of Salisbury's gate, and rid 7 miles to lie that night. We are to take our Journey into … 30, 1612, see Rym., VII, pt. 2, p. 184. * i.e. John son of Miles Bodley ( d. 1595), who was the youngest brother of Sir …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… discreete and able conductor"; their march is to be at 15 miles per day; "the charge of coate and conduct money is for …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… at the mouth of its tributary the Hull, some twenty miles from the open sea; upstream, the Humber itself gives … the early years of the 14th century, but the Humber is two miles wide at Hull and the crossing has always been liable to …
A History of the County of Leicester
… justices. . . gentlemen in the towne and within five miles of it that will be fit to be inserted'. 62 Otherwise it … directors were Matthew Babington, John Hill, M.D., Samuel Miles, Thomas Paget, surgeon, Harvey Barber, James Cort, … 1835. Joseph Philips, Charles Inman, Geo. Lockwood, Wm. Miles; for a list of the new corp. see Greaves, Corp. of …
A History of the County of Leicester
… in the reign of Charles I. By commissions of 1627, Sir Miles Fleetwood was authorized to survey the forest and to …
A History of the County of Leicester
… and the canal, which were both badly polluted for several miles downstream from Leicester. 160 Many houses in the … parish, for example, the highways surveyor had fourteen miles of road to care for; in 1849 a rate of 4 d. in the … it to construct a reservoir at Thornton, about seven miles away, and to supply water to Leicester by pipes. 217 …