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The Environs of London
… Wimbledon WIMBLEDON. Name. It is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon … early proprietors. I have seen ancient records in which the name of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language … who died there in 1754. He was son of Sir William Benson, sheriff of London. In the reign of Queen Ann he published a …
Survey of London
… and Park CHAPTER 6: WINCHESTER HOUSE AND PARK Early in the 12th century the Abbey of Bermondsey granted to the Bishop of Winchester and his successors a stretch of land …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Castle CASTLE The County Hall, the great Hall of Winchester where the first Parliaments of … Castle. 20 Henry III in December 1221 ordered the sheriff to cause the hall of Winchester Castle to be …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast … for current expenses, sealed up by the subescheator and sheriff. At Redbridge and the Romsey bridge over the Test …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winton, Wyncestre (xiii cent. et seq.). Winchester lies in the valley of the Itchen, surrounded by chalk down-land. Roman roads … the other citizens; ibid. 131. Moreover, Robert Daundely, Sheriff of Hampshire, was bidden to stay with divers …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The ancient custom THE ANCIENT CUSTOM OF WINCHESTER The 'ancient custom,' the … were wont to sue with the city of Winchester at the sheriff's tourn and pay their share with the citizens 37 till …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was … throughout the reign of Henry II and Richard I it was the sheriff, or a farmer under him, who rendered the farm, and in …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried … the castle-guard rents were often collected by the sheriff and handed by him to the constable. 504 A court for …
Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the service of the Order of the Garter, but if, as seems … Whorwood (d. 1704), of Holton, Oxfordshire, sometime High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, who was illegitimate s. of Brome …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the Nene) … and Ann, daughters of John Johnson of Richmond Hall, High Sheriff of Cambs. and Hunts., and it was they who erected the …