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A History of the County of Warwick
… of Wyken, the area of which was estimated as 670 acres in the mid 19th century, 91 formed only the northern and … St. Michael's, Coventry, until it was transferred to Wyken in 1884. The area of the combined civil parish in 1891 was … 18. Cal. Chart. R. 1341-1417, 102, 103. See, e.g., E 317/Warws./11 rott. 2, 16. Bk. of Fees, 510, 515; Cal. Close, …
A History of the County of Leicester
… of the reformed municipal government and established in the parliamentary representation a monopoly that in 35 years was only broken twice. The dramatic theme lies in … last found a candidate, J. Boughton-Leigh of Brownsover (Warws.), a gentleman and landowner, their slender chances had …
A History of the County of Leicester
… the 12th of May 1660 King Charles II was duly proclaimed in Leicester, at the High Cross, the Barrell Cross, and the … easy. For many years the town had been represented in Parliament by Hazlerigg, a republican and a regicide. 2 … Ruding of Westcotes and Bertie Greathead of Guy's Cliffe (Warws.). 277 Smith continued to represent Leicester through …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… by the name of St. Felix, Bishop and Confessor; Capgrave, in his Life, tells us, 2 that he was a man every way learned, … 8th of March, (on which day his festival is celebrated,) in the year 647, and was buried at Dunwich in a church of his own foundation; but after a time, his …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the house of the Dominican Friars. This had been dissolved in 1538, 2 and the Vice-Chancellor petitioned that the place … monastery was purchased to be the site of the new College in June 1583 by Lawrence Chaderton, the Master-elect, and his … are in Cambridge, the City of London, Sutton Coldfield (Warws.), Great Gransden (Hunts.), and Ash (Kent); it owns the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… St. Radegund, commonly called Jesus College, was founded in 1496 2 by John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, upon the site of the … argued here whether the reasons for its dissolution given in the royal licence of Henry VII, the dilapidations of its … widows and orphans. A fee-farm rent of 50 from Nuneaton (Warws.) was to provide pensions for six widows, and one of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… as early as 14 September 1440. 2 The circumstances in which the King's scheme was conceived are obscure, but … the University, was from the first the King's chief agent in its execution, and probably played a leading part in its … Wawen, and the manor of Mockley in Wootton Wawen parish (Warws.); Brixton Deverill, Ogbourne St. George and St. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of earlier societies that had filled a considerable place in the medieval University and whose surrenders of their … Crown and the court. The earliest record of the existence in Cambridge of the society of the king's scholars, which … and Tuxford 153 (Notts.); Monk's Kirby and Withybrook (Warws.); Coxwold curacy with dependent curacies, 152 …
The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds etc.
… described by Dugdale and Hickes are no longer to be found in the muniment room, and a comparison of Wanley's list with … of the fidelity of the guardians of these muniments in the years succeeding the revolution of 1688. Some of them, … living memory. Those which remain are chiefly preserved in drawers in two presses in the muniment room. Of these Nos. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The Domesday survey The text Oxenefordscire In King Edward's Time Oxeneford (Oxford) rendered yearly to … of honey. Also (it rendered) to Earl Algar 1 10 li. in addition to the mill which he had within the city. When … (it is worth the same) now. The same Richard holds 1 h. in Foxcote [Foscot]. (There is) land for 1 plough. There (are) 4 …