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Survey of London Monograph
… Acknowledgments Acknowledgements The Survey of London team has received help from many … to whom it is indebted are listed below. Particular thanks for support and assistance are due, however, to a number of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ACKWORTH ( St. Cuthbert), a parish, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York, 3 miles … of Lancaster; net income, 403. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, under an act of inclosure, in … by a grant from parliament. Upon its separation from that institution, the house, with 84 acres of land attached to it, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… Act of the Court of High Commission ACTS OF THE COURT OF HIGH … Plowden Petitions to be read. The court being informed for the bond that Sir Edmond still persisted in his contempt against the orders of this court for his wife's alimony, decreed an intimation of 50 l. to …
The Environs of London
… THIS parish is supposed to have derived its name from the quantity of oak timber which it produced; Ac, in the Saxon language, … springing out of a deep clay, which were in great repute for their medicinal virtues about the middle of the present …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (1,934 a., 783 ha.) 1 is a long, roughly rectangular tract of countryside running down from the south-facing slopes below Ragleth Hill across Ape Dale … the parish. 34 Four years earlier hearth tax had been paid for only 3 houses at Alcaston but for 15 at Acton Scott, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… dedicated to St. Mary existed by 1231, when Walter, rector of Acton, held a house from Peter FitzAlulf. 82 The church served the whole parish until 1872. 83 The … 1570 the rectory and tithes were farmed to John Garraway for £50 a year. 88 The living consisted in 1650 of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 31 In 1637 Viscountess Conway bequeathed a rent charge for teaching six poor children at 1 s. a week, which was paid … William Antrobus, in 1805 offered to assist the foundation of a school for the poor; 33 nothing further was mentioned, … managed by him in connexion with Wesleyan Normal Training Institution, Westminster Financed by Farmer and sch. pence; …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Growth GROWTH. Prehistoric settlement is attested by finds of palaeolithic and neolithic Bronze-Age burials at Mill Hill Park, and Iron-Age coins near Bollo Lane. 71 Although the name Acton, meaning 'oak town', is Anglo-Saxon, it was … Acton's proximity to London had made it a summer retreat for courtiers and lawyers. Sir Richard Sutton bought the seat …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. Richard Baxter (1615-91), the puritan divine ejected from Kidderminster (Worcs.) in … church. 37 He observed that the Independent ministries of Philip Nye, 1643-56, and Thomas Elford, 1656-61, had resulted in loss of support for 'the Independent separating vigour', because they had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… A public conduit was constructed in High Street in the grounds of the Bell, later Suffolk House, by Thomas Thorney, who in 1612 left a rent charge on the adjacent Conduit close for its upkeep. 73 In 1755 a Chancery order confirmed the …