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Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… Flanders PRIORY OF ST. GEORGE, HESDIN, CELL OF THE ABBEY OF ANCHIN, 1 FOR BENEDICTINE MONKS, IN THE DIOCESE … ( Niweberiam), on the terms that so long as he lived a clerk, he should enjoy that endowment, and should give the … it all. To both these gifts the wife of Arnulf and his son William and his daughter Ava gave consent, etc. . ABBEY OF …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Flaunden 46. FLAUNDEN. Note.The plan is reproduced by permission of the Victoria County Histories. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxviii. N.W. … Bells: one, inscribed ' Gloria in exelcisc deo ,' by William Knight, 1578. (Another bell by the same founder, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Flaxley FLAXLEY Flaxley lies 14.5 km. WSW. of Gloucester on the north-eastern edge of the Forest of Dean. It was formerly … before 1691 on a small freehold estate belonging to William Pritchard in the right of his wife Mary Bridgeman. 22 … Vincents Land. 46 Among the abbey's other benefactors were William de Mynors, lord of Westbury manor in the late 12th …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… and about seven miles north of Market Harborough. The soil is mainly boulder clay and blue-grey clay with some … in the hands of Ralph's heirs until at least 1475, when William, Lord Hastings, received it back from his feoffees. … the manor was sold by John Beaumont of Gracedieu and a William Hastings to Thomas Harvey of Elmesthorpe. 18 Thomas …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Fladburge FLEDBOROUGH. FLADBURGE. This manor was Godeva's the famous countess of earl Leuric of Mercia, and by them … to the Bassets, there mentioned to be of Normanton. 13 14 William Basset the elder, 6 R. 2. is stiled lord of Fleburgh, … 16 Richard Stanhope, knight, 10 H. 6. granted to William Basset, esquire, son & heir of Thomas Basset, a …
Old and New London
… INTRODUCTION. Frays in Fleet StreetChaucer and the FriarThe Duchess of Gloucester doing Penance for … of the old school, married the daughter of his master, William Wheeler, a goldsmith, who lived one door west of … On his way home to Seething Lane, the amorous Navy Office clerk with difficulty avoided two thieves with clubs, who met …
Old and New London
… (continued) CHAPTER V. FLEET STREET ( continued). The "Green Dragon"Tompion and PinchbeckThe RecordSt. Bride's … was hung for an intrigue in which he had been detected. William Venor, a warden of the Fleet Prison, added a body and … 3, Crane Courtwherein was carried on the business of Mr. William Last. It was here that Punch first saw the light. The …
Old and New London
… VII. FLEET STREETS (NORTHERN TRIBUTARIESCHANCERY LANE). The Asylum for Jewish ConvertsThe Rolls ChapelAncient … Csar"Trampling on a Master of the RollsSir William Grant's OdditiesSir John LeachFuneral of Lord … the son of a tradesman at Bedford, afterwards a merchant's clerk and an embryo architect. Mr. Canning appointed him …
Old and New London
… Street (Northern TributariesShoe Lane And Bell Yard). The Kit-Kat ClubThe Toast for the YearLittle Lady MaryDrunken … were originally Whig patriots, who, at the end of King William's reign, met in this out-ofthe-way place to devise … Godfrey Kneller, the great Court painter of the reigns of William and Anne, was a member; and he painted for his friend …
Old and New London
… Clifford's InnDyer's ChambersThe Settlement after the Great FirePeter Wilkins and his Flying WivesFetter … than deed or statute. Harrison the regicide was in youth clerk to an attorney in Clifford's Inn, but when the Civil … original, uninjured, Domesday Book, compiled by order of William, the conqueror of England. It is written in a …