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A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xiii cent. et seq.). Winchester lies in the valley of the Itchen, surrounded by chalk down-land. Roman roads … it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present area of the city is 1,906 acres, that within its ancient walls …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was … for his expenses in going to London to receive his commission for office, and in each compotus of the mayors … to assume extraordinary powers, arose in 1312, when a commission of oyer and terminer was issued concerning the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle Architectural history ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in the Domesday Survey in … well have been spared. The new works were entrusted by a commission appointed to carry them into effect to Jeffrey …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th … had been an annual allowance since 1608. 274 In 1631 a commission was appointed to examine into the frauds and … the sum allowed for their maintenance. 578 In 1655 a commission reported that the manor of Carbrooke in Norfolk …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… CAME (7088) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 68 NE, bSY 78 NW) The parish of Winterborne Came, covering some 1,560 acres immediately … is of very high quality, though much of this may be metropolitan. The Conservatory is notable. Architectural … Taxatio Ecclesiastica (Rec. Commn., 1802) and in 1397 a commission was set up to enquire into its defects (Episc. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 80 SW, ST 80 SE, SY 89 NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 Milton Abbas … corner of East Down Plantation was carried out by this Commission in 1965. A series of five turf-lines within the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Flasby WINTERBURN, with Flasby, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and … are governed by ancient customs, confirmed by a commission of inquiry in 1287; and all disputes and offences …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of … of Chichester: the tithes here of the Ecclesiastical Commission have been commuted for 1171, and those of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its … have now died out. Thorney Mill is mentioned in a 1470 commission de walliis et fossatis, 24 and the manorial … The area was declared to be drained at a Session of Sewers held at St. Ives in 1637, 48 but the following year …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west … in question. This agreement was ratified at a Session of Sewers held at Wisbech on 20 September 1632. The … in ancient times fall under any special drainage commission. The Marsh now falls within the area of the …