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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… largest town described in this volume, stands in a curve of the R. Stour which bounds it to S. and W. The land varies … in altitude between 100 ft. and 200 ft. above O.D. and is of Valley Gravel and Chalk. Habitation probably originated in … were designed for wealthier professional men and leading merchants. They are rectangular in plan and narrow enough to …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… 1631. King's servant 1631. Surgeon. BS 1658.) Period of medical practice 1606-1658 Place of birth Amsterdam Date of death Apr 1658 Address Bartholomew … and imprisoned and so in accordance with custom and the Statute they committed him to the prison called "ye Counter …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Blaston BLASTON Blaston lies eight miles north-east of Market Harborough and five miles south-west of Uppingham (Rut.) in the valley of a small stream which is a tributary of the brook flowing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1086 when woodland attached to the nearby royal manor of Wootton was said to be in the king's enclosure ( in … built the first park wall c. 1110, and within its circuit of 7 miles kept beasts of the chase and exotic animals, including a porcupine. 31 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… medieval king's houses and park at Woodstock formed part of a conglomerate royal manor. Woodstock manor and its … contiguous royal estates 'commonly called the demesnes of Woodstock', 36 sharing customs usually associated with … Old Woodstock, which earlier had been treated as part of Wootton. The borough of New Woodstock, created out of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Blith. Blide BLITH. BLIDE. I Find little of Blyth in the book of Doomsday, saving that here was soc to Ordesach one bov. . … the closes (except before excepted) and in tythes of the merchants, (or chapmen) and servants, and in tythes of flax …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… BY NORWICH, Called Torp in the survey. Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury was lord of it in the reign of the Confessor, in his own right, and held it as a lay-fee; …
Old and New London
… his Noble-hearted WifeAn Historic RomanceLucy, Countess of BedfordAn Episode in the Life of Anne, Wife of the Fifth Earl of BedfordJohn, Fourth Duke … relief, by annual pensions, to distressed and aged gentry, merchants, tutors, and governesses, and persons who have been …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) BLOXWORTH ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Wareham and Purbeck, hundred of CoombsDitch, Wareham division of Dorset, 8 miles (S.) from Blandford; containing 306 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Bludworth-Brakell Bludworth, Charles y.s. Thomas, of London, equitis. Christ Church, matric. 13 Dec., 1682, … Cambridge, incorp. 11 July, 1598. Bludworth, John s. John, of London, 'mercator.' Pembroke Coll., matric. 2 Dec., 1625, … aged 17; B.A. 21 Oct., 1628, M.A. 18 June, 1631, vicar of St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet, 1633, rector of Newington, …