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A History of the County of Hampshire
… existence of Winchester owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather … with the burghal community, and the 'twenty-four' were to be drawn from their ranks. But, and this is the important … in 1428, the order that those who slandered the mayor were hereafter to be imprisoned and fined 120 s. 109 is …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends … but are interesting as representing the traditions as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the … conventicles.' 379 Henry Martin, the regicide, was also committed together with various men who were accused of …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… arms as: Ermine, a lion rampant azure, crowned or. It may be suggested that, the arms of Pickering being the same as … representative of the line, when it was sold by her heirs to William Thornburgh of Hampsfell, esq., who purchased … 56 all the tithe corn, grain and hay growing or to grow hereafter on the tenements, intackes and improved groundes in …
A History of the County of Essex
… the younger, a minor. Lawton later sold the advowson to C. E. Egerton-Green (d. 1904) whose widow Alice Helen … 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's priory. 7 The rectory was said to be worth 7 marks in 1428, and £10 in 1535. 8 In 1650 the … to the living in 1564. 29 Formerly a weaver, he was a committed Calvinist, who had been exiled in Switzerland in …
Alumni Oxonienses
… college, New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … English college at Rheims; on returning to England, he was committed to the Tower and imprisoned for some months; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the … commission of the peace, although it could not prosecute felonies without special mandate. County justices and royal … (the Bull) there would be piping and dancing 'at 1 o'clock hereafter'. 21 In the early 17th century separate licensing …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… late 13th century, shortly before the manor was granted to Tintern Abbey, there was considerable demesne at … Woolaston Wood. 38 For a short time in 1660 the wood was committed to the care of the Commissioners of Dean Forest in … was reduced to 30 a. by 1842, and later ceased to be a separate farm. Under the Marling family new holdings …
The Environs of London
… Wollewic, &c. I can find nothing satisfactory relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, … in Woolwich. The whole of this parish has been decreed to be within the Royal manor of Eltham 5: but the principal … an alms-house in Woolwich for five poor widows, and committed the care of it to the Goldsmiths' Company 48. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue of cities belonging to the Britons, by whom, from the advantages of its situation … (judging from the Roman roads in the vicinity appearing to concentrate here) have supposed, it was one of those … for the execution of such of the citizens as should be found guilty of having betrayed Colonel Fiennes' soldiers …