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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… I have received your letter of the 6th inst. new style, and hope you have now got into your own house, and that you have likewise found an admission into your … MajorGeneral Earle goes over with them. The wind is fair, and weather moderate. We have been in a concern lest we …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… the petition of Sir Will. Glynn, bart., Sir James Clarke and Stephen Glynn, esq.; asking for a writ of error … May 3. Whitehall. Proceedings upon the petition of Sam. and John Oakley and Jno. Evans, shewing that they were condemned for robbing …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ploughteams. 62Two demesne ploughteams, each of 2 horses and 6 oxen, were at work in 1251 on 309 a. evenly distributed … three open fields, named as West, Middle (later Cadwin), and Belsars. 63 West field stretched south from the village, … as £4,000, was among the worst anywhere during the Swing riots. 16In 1831 a third of the adult male population of over …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… West River, forming a triangle with a base on the river and an apex to the south. It covered 4,694½ a. until 1884, … mid 19thcentury fires were at the time of the Swing riots in 1830, during an outbreak of incendiarism in 1851 and … Wells, Bedf. Level, i. 197-8, 269-72. K. Lindley, Fenland Riots and the Eng. Revolution, 93, 184; Proc. C.A.S. xxxviii. …
Survey of London
… centred on Wilmington Square, lies between Amwell Street and Farringdon Road to the east and west, and Lloyd Baker … 1816 and 10 February 1817often misleadingly described as riots, following tendentious press reports of the timewere … the Resolutions and Petition of Nov. 15, 1816, and The Riots in London. Hone's full and authentic account, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Churches and Protestant nonconformity CHURCHES Leland's assertion that … precludes an accurate description of their architecture and appearance. It is possible, however, to identify, … the borough, exclusive of the abbey church of St. Edith, and four within the suburbs. It seems likely that the church …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Wincanton lies in the south-east part of the county and at its centre is the largest town of the district. 81 The parish is divided between one principal and three smaller areas, and many very small pieces of land consisting of isolated …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. Swithun, outside the jurisdiction of the mayor and corporation and within the bishop's own jurisdiction of … the Peasant Revolt of 1381, or the earlier Town and Gown Riots of St. Scholastica's Day at Oxford in 1354, forcibly …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … 2 the site of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing … severe unemployment, sharply rising poor rates, and bread riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's … of the masters'. 145 Witney people were involved in grain riots in 1795 and again in 1800, when local JPs reported …