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Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… etc. Provisions (flesh, fish, &c). I. 70. Letter from the Lord Mayor to the Lord Treasurer, stating that upon being reminded as to the keeping of the laws of abstinence from flesh, 1 he had gathered … the City, complaining that restraint had been made by the Justices of the Peace within the counties of Suffolk, …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… Affairs. I. 201. Letter from William Lord Burghley, to the Lord Mayor, by command of Her Majesty, thanking his lordship, the Aldermen, and … and Aldermen, requiring them, in conjunction with the Justices of the Peace for the counties of Middlesex, Kent, …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… Public buildings The county courts THE COUNTY COURTS. The Moot Hall was long used for the keeping of assize, sessions, and gaol-delivery, for the county of … the scite of the old Castle of Newcastle upon Tyne, to the justices of the peace for the county of Northumberland, for …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… Public buildings The new prisons THE NEW PRISONS. At the spring assizes in 1820, Newgate gaol was presented by the grand jury of the town, "as being out of repair, and inconvenient, … they are built and completed, they shall be vested in the justices of the peace for the town and county of Newcastle …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… Public buildings The Tyne Bridge PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The public buildings … to the ancient fortifications and religious institutions of the town have been before described. The other buildings … office of the town-clerk in Newcastle upon Tyne; and the justices of the peace and commissioners of the land-tax, for …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… Public grounds PUBLIC GROUNDS. The Town Moor, or Castle Moor, was originally, according to Bourne, a wood very famous for oaks, out of which were built many hundred ships, and all the houses of … called, comes from the Saxon word frith, which signifies peace; for the English Saxons held several woods to be …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Public health and medical services PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE MEDICAL SERVICES Leprosy, p. 318. Plague, p. 319. … Service, p. 336. Hospitals, p. 340. The early history of public health is largely a chronicle of epidemics. … and many of the regulations of town councils and county justices reflect both the inefficacy of treatment and fear of …
Survey of London
… Public Housing in Poplar The 1940s to the early 1990s Reconstruction and Retrenchment: … The Post-war Emergency The Housing Crisis As a result of the war, the conditions in which many families in Poplar … pleaded that houses rather than flats should be built when peace came. 276 Poplar Borough Council opposed the views on …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS Guildhall and Municipal Offices. The right to have a hanse house, or Guildhall, was granted to … paid 3 s. rent a year to St. Mary's chapel for the use of a building as a guildhall and from 1386 that payment was … in 1502. 65 Part of the house was let to the East Riding justices from 1611 as a house of correction, and the whole of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… late-Saxon and medieval road surfaces consisted only of a spread of gravel, 1 which presumably deteriorated … In an undated but possibly 13th-century petition to the king the burgesses of Oxford asked that the streets, … them, and in 1709 St. Cross parish required the backing of justices to levy a rate to repair Longwall, a street long in …