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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… signify among the antient Britons and Gauls, a bridge, or passage over a river; since it is no where used, but in … used by our Saxon ancestors to signify a city, town or castle) they called it Hroueceaster, and by a further … miles from London. The remains of the antient Roman road, or Watling-street way, leading from London hither, is very …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 39 The origin of the modern name is uncertain. 'Walegra' or 'Wallgrave Hill' was mentioned about 1611 as a local … Walsgrave Hill. Isolated references to the parish as 'Sowe or Walsgrave' occur in 1588 41 and as 'Wal(s)grave upon Sowe' … suggested from a compound of weald and graf (grove or copse). 43 It is possible that when William Brown rebuilt …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… Lord Byshopp at the tyme of the examynacon of the busenes or privatlie dealt with therein by the lord Byshopp or any from hym. Butt as wee have heard the said Schoolmaster … by the recognizance and before I had received your letter or informacion against hym towchinge the cause of his …
A History of the County of Leicester
… 3 Henry Mosley was described indifferently as yeoman or weaver. 4 Thomas Swan, yeoman, was a miller as well as a … yarn. 28 William Ludlam the butcher had no slaughterhouse or shop and was probably a grazing butcher. 29 John Boxall, … wool and locks from fells that might have been purchased or might have come from some of his own sheep. 54 Thus the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… he signed at the synod of Clovesho, A o. 747. 4. Cuthwin or Guthwine. 5. Alberth, Albert, or Albrith. 6. Eglaf, Algar, Elgar, or Ecglaf. 7. Heardred, Hardred, Eudred, Erdred; Godwin says, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… each of the entrances to the town, namely, the Stone Cross or North Gate Cross 3 at the north on the Sandridge Road, the … 5 which continued under the name of the barriers or burglays, 6 and are described in the charter of Edward VI … of St. Peter's parish within the borough; the Middle Ward, or roughly the Abbey parish; Holywell Ward, comprising the …
Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londiniensis
… of the Churche of St. Paul in London. Wheare there are ij or three gathered together in My Name, sayth the Lorde, there … of w ch Statutes that inordinate desyre of offendinge or hurtynge oon an other amonge us and o r successors might … before mentioned, ether by the othes heare by vs geven, or by thes w ch heareafter shalbe geuen by o r successors, to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… scholars, though the number of scholars might be increased or diminished according to the state of the College revenues. … three roses argent a chief party azure a fleur-de-lis or and gules a leopard of England.[Granted 1449] This was … in the following year, of an Amicabilis Concordia, or treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance for mutual …
The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds etc.
… the high altar, 98 lbs. "in les voutys" (the galleries or triforia), 36 lbs. in the refectory. The chapels lighted … therefore that these entries refer to extra allowances or "pitanti," given on the seven days before Christmas, the … and have not usurped the cognizance of any pleas, or taken amercements, or appointed bailiffs; but that they …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… writings were selected out of regard to the excellencies or peculiarities of their penmanship; but excepting these … that illustrate the social conditions of their periods, or are remarkable for the names of persons or places, or afford particulars likely to interest …