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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (5) to Richard Grenville, 1665, black marble, with arms in white marble. Piscina: in the chancel, sexfoil basin, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A district church was erected on a site given by W. P. Paine, Esq., in 1840; it is dedicated to St. Peter, is a … containing 533 inhabitants. It comprises 1197 a. 39 p., of which 837 acres are arable, and 359 pasture and … parish. There are extensive coal-mines, and quarries of white freestone; and fullers'-earth is abundant. The living …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wrytinge paper; wrytinge pap'; wryting paper; writting p'r; writing-paper; writinge paper; writinge pap'; writinge & … pap'; writeing pap] A special type of PAPER, usually a WHITE PAPER for writing on, with a smooth surface produced by … writing in the 1790s suggested that the manufacture of white paper only began in this country in the 1690s [Johnson …
A Dictionary of London
… St. Botolph Without Aldrichegate, I Ed. VI. 1547 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 100). No later record. Wrestler's Court South out of … III. (Anc. Deeds, A. 2056). "Wryngeres-alay," 1435 (Ct. H.W. II. 523) Not further identified. Wringwren Lane … of "Vernon's quay." It seems to be on or near the site of Bear Quay in Horwood, now covered by the Custom House. Wyeber …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is modern. Further E. is a 14th-century doorway (Plate p. 273) to the vestry with two-centred arch and stop-moulded … Door: In doorway between chancel and N. vestry (Plate p. 273)with vertical battens and horizontal framing, … order of arch slanting bands of terra-cotta colour and white with stars, now black, possibly formerly gold, also on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… civil parish and the moorland was transferred to Eyton C.P. At the same time the transfer of Walcot township (414 a.) … century, such as Admaston Hall, Oaklands, and Donnerville, bear witness to that phase of prosperity. Speculative housing … built in 1882 for Joseph Beattie, a Birmingham banker. 30 H. H. France-Hayhurst bought it in 1890 31 and lived there …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 46 In 1840 a friendly society began to meet at the White Horse inn. 47 In 1843 there was a school clothing … Bk. Wrockwardine (1882). This art. was written 1982. S.P.L., MS. 110, Wrockwardine jury presentment, 11 Oct. 1650, … Ann. Rep. Local Govt. Bd. [C. 4515], pp. xlvii, 191, 204, H.C. (1884-5), xxxii; V.C.H. Salop. ii. 229; Kelly's Dir. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wyndham and Wyndham Lane, below, Shermanbury, intro. V.C.H. Suss. i. 353, 443, 446-7; vii. 1, 125. Below, Shermanbury. Above, Tipnoak hund. P.R.O., JUST 1/909A, rot. 24d.; S.A.C. lxxxii. 27. P.R.O., JUST 1/924, rot. 61d. S.R.S. x. 60-1. Feud. Aids, v. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… above canopy two shields of arms and part of third in white metal, indent of fourth shield; 1st shield, a cheveron … a(6). Place Farm, or 'King John's Farmhouse' (see Plate, p. xxx.), about mile N.W. of the church, is of two storeys, …