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A History of the County of Hampshire
… priest's dwelling, was till 1910 a library of ancient books. The lower, which from 1629 to 1875 was also a library, … breadth of the room; upon these the forms sit when "up at books." Along the room are set four parallel ranges of oak … cover serves the purpose of a desk; below it are kept books and implements for writing.' The ceiling with its rich …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… frequently mentioned in the 17th and 18th-century coffer books and the borough ordinances. 102 The office, though its … appears in the boroughmote proceedings and the ordinance books of the 16th century and later. In November 1552, for … until the beginning of the 17th century. The ordinance books and boroughmote proceedings show effort after effort on …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… at the lower end of the outer bailey, but certain pay books of James Nedam, surveyor of the king's manors, 24 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… were Papist recusants found in possession of Popish books and 'lewd trash.' 258 The account of a visit by one …
Survey of London Monograph
… of Guyer'. Twice married; left no children. Had many books, presumably his father's; Stow complained that he kept … Dethick (? or his father, Gilbert); some of Sir Thomas's books were certainly in Dethick's possession; Coll. of Arms, … rolls of arms, copies of grants of arms, treatises, books of precedents, church notes, charters, chronicles and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12, and in the patronage of Mrs. Hildyard, of … The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at 12, and in the gift of the Earl of Albemarle: the … tramway. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 9. 6. 8., and in the gift of the Rev. William …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… two tie-beams, and twelve carved figures of men, holding books, and standing on carved stone corbels, all apparently … England, by John Danyell, 15th-century, now cracked. Books: (1) Foxe's Martyrs, with life of Foxe, etc., three …