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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of Somerset, 34 … engagements between the contending parties took place in the immediate vicinity of this town; in which, according … gleams of returning prosperity revived, for a time, a hope of restoration; the marriage of that queen with Philip …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… It consists of a rectangular nave of five bays 110 ft. 9 in. by 28 ft. 3 in., measuring from centre to centre of the pillars, and side aisles each about 110 ft. 10 in. by 14 ft. from the wall to the centre of the pillars, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the remains of Hyde Abbey, consists of chancel 28 ft. 1 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., small north vestry, north chapel 23 ft. 5 in. by 14 ft. … 'Give God the Glory, R. B. 1606'; the fourth 'God is my hope, R. B. 1606'; the tenor is plain. Marks on bell in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Henry I extended the fair-time for a further five days in exchange for lands taken from the bishopric. Stephen 1 granted six days more and Henry Plantagenet early 2 in his reign, characteristically ignoring his predecessor's … to twenty or twenty-four by temporary grants 3 and often in practice exceeded, seems to have been regarded as the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in the Domesday Survey in connexion with the manor of Clewer, … interest. By their removal from their original places all hope of recovering the original glazing scheme, even from …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, … the Confessor had granted Windsor with 20 hides of land in the neighbourhood to the monastery of St. Peter at … keys, released them and took them with her to Wales in the hope of placing them in the hands of Owen Glendower. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of the small riverside settlements listed as Winterbornes in 1086 (Domesday Book). Until the 17th century it was included in the parish of Winterborne Farringdon, and thereafter until … relief, each standing on a moulded corbel; they include Hope, Sisera, Samson, Judith with the head of Holophernes, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… existence for civil purposes was virtually recognized in 1874, when a separate Parson Drove School Board was established. 2 The parish consists in effect of the fen end of Leverington; it has no separate manorial history, and may be compared in status with Gedney Hill over the border in the Parts of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Interregnum, replaced Morton's palace by a house in the style of the time, said to have been designed by Inigo … the Southwell family were lessees for more than a century. In 1778-9 Edward Southwell was paying £30 a year rent. 83 In 1793 statutory powers were acquired 84 by Bishop Yorke to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, … about 1375, though his surname was probably hereditary. 2 In the early 16th century a chantry priest evidently taught … at his own expense, apprenticing several of them in the hope that the parish might join the enterprise; he received …