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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Industry and trade INDUSTRY AND TRADE. Like the other towns in the basin of the Bradford … to the cloth trade, set up business as fine quality glovers in Fore Street, Westbury, in 1883. 37 In 1908 a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Walter Pavely acquired from Monkton Farleigh in 1320, 64 and formed part of his estate at Brook on his death in 1323. … a number of small estates in 1599, three fulling mills and a grain mill were included in the Brook Farm estate … a corn mill. 20 In 1901 it was bought by Boulton Bros. (Glovers) Ltd. and converted into a gloving factory. 21 In …
Survey of London
… CHAPTER 18 - WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD [See plates 44, 45 and 46.] For the formation of the bridge approach on the … side the Commissioners of Westminster Bridge, between 1740 and 1746, purchased a strip of land from the Archbishop of Canterbury and just over an acre of ground in Lambeth Marsh from the …
Old and New London
… Westminster Tothill Fields and neighbourhood CHAPTER II. WESTMINSTER.TOTHILL FIELDS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. "No mead so fit For courtly joust or … Word "Tothill"Punishment of NecromancersGrant of a Market and Fair to be held in "Tuthill"Burials in Tothill FieldsThe …
Survey of London
… PALACEBUILDINGS Sorbire came to England about 1665, and has left his impressions on record. One of the places … very stately, because the rest of the Palace is ill Built, and nothing but a heap of Houses, erected at divers times, and of different Models, which they made Contiguous in the …
Alumni Oxonienses
… M.A. 27 Jan., 1613-14; vice-principal of Gloucester Hall, and chaplain to Katharine, Duchess of Buckingham, rector of … at Gloucester. 1640, ejected, became minister of Woodstock and master of the school there, and finally at Northleach, co. Gloucester, where he died, …
The Environs of London
… Hendon, Hampstead, a detached part of Chelsea, Paddington, and Harrow. It is computed that it contains about 3400 acres of land; the quantity of arable and pasture is always varying, but the proportion of grass … The soil is for the most part clay in the low lands, and in the high lands gravel. The quota paid by parishes of …
Statutes of the Realm
… William and Mary, 1688 Chapter I. An Act for a Grant to Their … [Rot. Parl. pt. 2.] The Reasons for granting the King and Queen a Subsidy. Grant to the King and Queen of 2s. in the Pound on Personal Estate for One …
Statutes of the Realm
… William and Mary, 1688 Chapter III. An Act for the granting a … Commons Assembled in Parlyament haveing entred into a due and serious Consideration of the extraordinary Occasions which oblige our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queene to a greate and present Expence …
Statutes of the Realm
… William and Mary, 1690 Chapter I. An Act for Granting an Ayd to Their … of Sixteene hundred fifty one thousand seaven hundred and two pounds eighteene shillings. [Rot. Parl. pt. 2.] The … Gracious [Soveraigne 2]] Wee Your Majestyes most Dutifull and Loyall Subjects the Commons in Parlyament Assembled being …