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A History of the County of Hampshire
… the college underwent expansion, taking in three or four more quadrangles. It occupied the site of St. … a dependency of the monastery on the west, and the garden or playing-fields called Meads were extended at the expense … works in the Parentalia, nor are any designs for it in the collection of his plans preserved at All Souls College, the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… organization. Whether the gild merchant existed before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first … the year 1410 the city was in great difficulties as to the collection of the fee farm, with the result that the mayor … of the sheriff in the county, the chief duties being the collection of the fee farm and the annual accounting and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… is unknown, but St. Athelwold (96384) greatly enlarged it, or, according to the later account, completely rebuilt it. … west front of Walkelin's church. Lucy. Gules three luces or. William of Wykeham (13661404) seems to have done some … the tooling coarse, and the attached shafts semicircular or a little more than a semicircle in plan. The main arcade …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… no grounds for assuming it to be older than the Conquest or that any part of it occupies the site of defensive … now called the Van Dyck Room, from the magnificent collection of pictures by that painter which adorns the … Room, known recently as the Zuccarelli Room, from the collection of his paintings on the walls. They have now been …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 39 and it is not possible to decide whether Windsor Castle or Corfe Castle was the scene of the tragedy. On the whole it … forbidding her to raise money for his cause by selling or pledging any of his French fiefs, 68 but in the following … year the dean and chapter were warned not to try and evade contribution to the cost of the musters for Berks., 'stayenge …
Survey of London Monograph
… title has not been met (outside Lant) from 1380 to 1418 or 1419 when Windsor was sent to the Duke of Brittany … of Nobility, drawing largely on Tower records. Left great collection of MSS. and rolls, some in his own handwriting, … of the naturalist John Tradescant, Ashmole acquired his collection of curiosities and this was the nucleus of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… upon a retentive clay, and altogether unsheltered by woods or plantations; the substratum contains ironstone, which … mile north of it is a mineral spring, discovered about 60 or 70 years' since, which, on being analysed, was found to … found powerfully efficacious, either when taken internally or used for bathing. The present proprietors, also, have …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises 4140 acres, of which 467 are common or waste land. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in … The parish comprises 8656 acres, including 2035 common or waste; and is situated on the river Exe, which forms its boundary for 6 or 7 miles. Iron-ore is abundant, and there are indications …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at Elm who held by military service. Richard de Argentem or Argentan held 1 fee; Roger Mareis and Robert de Banstede ( … him as holding, inter alia, a messuage called Bealford or BEAUFORD, together with 776 acres and 7 marks rent. Of … in the Friday Bridge area, 25 and under the name Beauford or Bewford remained in the Balam family until 1699. 26 In …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Nene outfall, to the owners of commonable messuages or tenements in Leverington. Each allotment appears to have … Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church Croft, Paps Field or Hill Croft, Seafield, Ives Dyke Field or Doole, Park Field, Woolcroft or Walcroft, Wratfield, and …