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Cardiff Records
… would be impossible in my dissertation to call the reader's attention to even a tithe of the matter of peculiar … Wills is the long preamble, setting forth the Testator's state of health, his sensibility of the certainty of death, … the reader and the documents, and hope he will derive both pleasure and profit from this portion of the Cardiff Records. …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… (1603-25). ANNO 3 JAMES I. Monday next before the Feast of S. Luke, Evangelist [18 Oct.]. Newman (John), grocer.To the … successors for ever, on condition they yearly pay to the parson and churchwardens of the parish of S. Thomas the … Aldermanbury in tail; remainders to his other sons. To the parson and churchwardens of the church of S. Alban aforesaid …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… I (1553-58) ANNO 1 MARY. Monday next before the Feast of S. Benedict, Abbot [21 March]. Bolton (Christopher), … and "J," weighing twenty ounces and three quarters. To the parson and churchwardens of the church of S. Mary at Hill he … among the poor of the parish of S. Mary aforesaid. To the parson and churchwardens of the said parish church he leaves …
Survey of London
… conservative rebuilding. Discussion of aspects of the area's early history and a chronological outline of development … Matthews, looking east from Bagnigge Wells Road to Merlin's Cave at the top of the hill. To the left, the Spa Fields … Warwick Wroth and Arthur Edgar Wroth, The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century, 1896, pp.545: …
The Environs of London
… that this calculation includes 800 acres of Lord Spencer's park, of which 600 are pasture and 200 arable. Two hundred … ground swampy 1. Wimbledon is charged the sum of 471 l. 8 s. to the land-tax, which, in the year 1791, was at the rate … property of Sir Henry Bankes, Knt. alderman of London. The pleasure-grounds, which are spacious and beautiful, adjoin to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… behind existing frontages 24 in Flingers Lane, Ireson's Lane, and Bond's, Clewett's, and Dowding's yards, all north of High Street. … 70. Ibid. 80-1. Ibid. 26, 87. The Diary of a Country Parson, ed. J. Beresford, i. 47. Bowden, Wincanton, 157-8; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was shed the first blood in the … structure, with its appendant gardens, parks, and pleasure-grounds, pre-eminently adapted to the purposes of a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… with pierced wood boards. Winchester: St. Bartholomew's Church The upper part of the base of the square font of … and those on the south the Five Wounds and the initials T. S. Above this tomb and a little to the west is a two-centred … south, having a common gutter, which was repaired by the parson and parish jointly. The plate consists of two silver …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in his reign, characteristically ignoring his predecessor's charter, doubled the number of days allowed by his … year 1162 we have a hint of the extension of the bishop's fair from the crest of St. Giles Down toward the Eastgate … Saturday in February, a cattle, horse, sheep, pigs and pleasure fair on 23 and 24 October. The latter was until the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In the reign of his youngest son we hear 3 of a fine paid … 9 The proceedings customary at Winchester for the landlord's recovery of the land when rent was in arrear are of … 0 s. 10 d., and seems to have held office at the episcopal pleasure. He was generally assisted by two 'servientes' or …