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A History of the County of Shropshire
… the east Shropshire coalfield, 4 km. east of Much Wenlock and south-west of Broseley which it adjoined. 64 At various times coal and ironstone were mined and iron was smelted and worked on … No separate figures available after 1951. J. Randall, Old Sports and Sportsmen (1875), passim; V.C.H. Salop. ii. 175; …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary February 1693 February 1693 Feb. 1. Depositions of … about four months ago he was taken by a French privateer and carried into St. Malo; last Saturday night he sailed … of St. Malo, Philip Welsh, commander, of fourteen guns and sixty men, and a week ago arrived at Ventry in county …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary June 1689 June 1689 June 1. Pembroke. Israel … that, three weeks agone, come from Rochell, with salt, and discharged, most part of it, at Scilly; the rest eight … work fortifying, a great wall being raised about the town and a fort at the isle of Oleron. They utter mournfully their …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary October 1691 October 1691 Oct. 1/10. Carmagnole. … eye-witness to give the King particulars about the siege and other matters in the campaign. Refers to the post of … by the motive of doing his best for the public interest, and he knows the friendship he bears to Spain; nevertheless, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Williamson. I have to-day received your letters of the 4th and 7th inst. [N.S.], but have not had an opportunity of … the quantums to be settled, they will next proceed to ways and means. It will be difficult to find funds for so much as … the Comte de Bonde was stopped by the ice at Rotterdam, and presuming this S.W. wind may detain him in Holland, I …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… 11 EDWARD I. Monday next after the Feast of S. Edmund, K. and M. [20 Nov.]. Waleys (Johanna le).To Katherine her … daughter houses in "Chykenale," 1 parish of S. Sepulchre, and assignment of the wardship of Johanna her god-daughter ( … The second Tuesday after Easter, when certain rude sports called "hocking" were practised. It was also …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… Secollane, parish of S. Sepulchre in the suburb of London; and to John his son rents in the same parish. To John de … atte More, Agnes, wife of the same, Elena their daughter, and others. The residue, &c. Dated London, Monday next after … (Richard), goldsmith.To Roesia his wife all his vessels and utensils of brass, lead, and wood whatsoever appertaining …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … much profaned the Lord's day by 'unlawfull exercises and pastimes in the great churchyard and the streets.' 174 As …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … 2 the site of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … of 1814, when '738 persons dined abundantly, and capital sports succeeded' were specially commended by Jeremiah … Wisbech, although there was no 'gross intoxication', the sports were spoilt by the 'unmanageableness of the …