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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… St - Arbroath Andrew's, St. ANDREW'S, ST., a city, the seat of a university, and anciently the metropolitan see of Scotland, in the district of St. Andrew's, county of Fife, 39 miles (N. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… occupies a tract of flat mossy land between Kirkby Pool on the east and the Duddon on the west. The population in 1901 was 27. The Furness railway line crosses it. There …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Anglo-Saxon Gloucester must begin with some reference to the Roman town which preceded it. 1 Although there was no … 2 The earliest Roman occupation, the fort built in the 60s A.D. north of Gloucester at Kingsholm, was … in or near the channel later known as the Old Severn and crossed by the Foreign bridge. After the fortress became …
A History of the County of Oxford
… unit Oxfordshire does not receive actual mention until the time of Ethelred the Unready, 1 though it must have been in being long previously. Its boundaries, apart from that … course of the Thames, are sometimes regarded as artificial and due to the political circumstances of Viking days when it …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS If reliance can be placed on an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 577, and on the judgment of successive editors who agree in …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… to him for the Great Wardrobe. P. . Signed by Fox, Boyle and Hill. Endd. Date of order, 2 April. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, … account to William Roberts, Esq., paymaster of the works in Windsor Castle, or his assigns. P. . Signed by Fox, Boyle … had, some companies more than "Gaurnsey." We have three garrisons here, and they have but one. Since the peace we …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… for the foot. I am told the fault lies on the clothiers and transport officers. Please give notice to those concerned to come to Lord Secretary Nottingham's office in the Cockpit to-morrow at 11 a.m. to clear the matter up. … on the present establishment and providing and repairing garrisons, to take effect after the present cess laid on by …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… Aug. Windsor. Richard Warre to [Aglionby]. My Lord will be in London to-morrow and there is to be a Committee meeting on Tuesday. Details. … Anne 1, 65. 3 Aug. Windsor. Nottingham's Letters. 1. To the High Sheriff of Surrey. Queen's command:Further …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… Bathurst to [Nottingham]. Don Fernando Chacon, of Sevill in Spain, is now brought home a prisoner from Vigo. Details. He is of good family, as Mr. Malchor, Mr. Waite and Mr. Bowly and Mr. Chamberlain (English merchants that … given in writing and the ship ready to discharge under the forts, an English vessel the Oxford came in and took her to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… that Mr. David Lindsay's friends are very cautious in saying anything about him. They now say that he left … ago for London. If this be so, I suggest that, if you let the Earl of "Cromitty" know, he may, amongst his Scotch … means to find him out. I think that he is yet in Edinburgh and does not suspect that I have any directions concerning …