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The Environs of London
… Manor of Woolwich, in the early part of Edward the First's reign 8. In the year 1324, the manor of Woolwich belonged … know not what became of it immediately after Lady Hastings's death. Philipott says, that the Boughtons sold it to the … of it in 1575 17. About the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, it was sold to Sir Nicholas Gilbourne 19, of whose …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Redbornestoke, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Bedford; containing 1122 inhabitants. It … elevation. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 13. 6. 8., and has a net income of 236; the … Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's-Barton, union, and E. division of the county, of …
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 …
A History of the County of Essex
… manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. 98 Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to … Mountfichet. In 1267 on the death without issue of William's descendant Richard de Munfichet, the overlordship passed to … in 1375. His heir was his nephew Richard Poynings, Michael's son. 5 By 1383 the manor was held by Richard Waldegrave. 6 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of wider textiles. It is noticeable from the Dictionary's Archive that broader fabrics become more common during the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … but in the east there are thin north-south bands of Fuller's Earth and Fuller's Earth rock. 78 There were said to be light and dark blue …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was … later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates but not, apparently, Yarnton. In 1086 Eynsham's estates were held of the bishop by Abbot Columban, but 9 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… source whence the present account has been compiled. Day's great work on the British fishes contains but rare allusions to Somerset; although Baker's paper is quoted in the preface (p. iii.) it has evidently … Delaroche. This species appears under two names in Baker's list, viz. as the braize, Pagrus vulgaris, Cuv., and as the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Vertigo substriata is a mistaken identification of Miller's record of Turbo sexdentatus which is Vertigo antivertigo, … are those by the Rev. Canon A. Merle Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S., 1 and by Mr. E. W. Swanton. 2 A. GASTROPODA I. PULMONATA … were found scattered in various periodicals, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Entomological Record, Young Naturalist, …