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A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxfordshire does not receive actual mention until the time of Ethelred the Unready, 1 though it must have been in being … Its boundaries, apart from that formed by the course of the Thames, are sometimes regarded as artificial and due … of Viking days when it marched on its other borders with London land in the Chilterns, Danish Northamptonshire, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Chronicle under the year 577, and on the judgment of successive editors who agree in identifying a place there … archology has a fixed starting-point for the treatment of post-Roman Somerset. The battle of Deorham, the event … brooch formerly in the Roach Smith collection and found in London, shows that portraiture in the same style and material …
A History of the County of York
… Objects Few antiquities have survived from the York of the 5th or early 6th centuries. From the Mount, however, … when St. Mary's Abbey was founded and the abbey's weekly market developed there. But a more ancient market may well … 217, 219. Similar specimens have often been found in London: V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 106, n. 126; another chessman of …
Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… Anjou Part 1 Part 1 ANJOU. ABBEY OF ST. MARY, FONTEVRAULT, FOR BENEDICTINE MONKS AND NUNS, IN … revenue from the ferm ( de redditibus meis de firma) of London and 20 marcs from the ferm of Winchester. This he … to the monastery 20 l. in money of Rouen for buying fish which are commonly called herrings ( qui wulgariter …
Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… Anjou Part 2 Part 2 ABBEY OF ST. FLORENT, SAUMUR, FOR BENEDICTINE MONKS, IN THE DIOCESE … all their men, a third part of [his] fisheries, freedom to fish in all waters, land for one plough with meadow; at … building. Lastly, they granted seven burgesses in their market-place, free from all toll and from all dues, save …
A Dictionary of London
… Anne (St.) Blackfriars - Archdeacon (Chapel of) Anne (St.) Blackfriars On the east side of Church Entry, north of Glasshouse Yard in Farringdon Ward … of St. Anthony (q.v.). Perhaps the most celebrated in London before St. Paul's School was erected. This school was …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… 1 To draw an order to pay 30,000 l. to Ralph, Earl of Montague, Master of the Queen's Great Wardrobe, or his assigns, portion of … to go from thence to Holland or Zealand, and to embark for London, where he is to apply himself to the Spanish Consul. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… 1 Ap. Whitehall. Hedges to William Blathwayt. The Duke of Marlborough is much disappointed that cloth has not come … p. 293. 2 Ap. Sick and Wounded Office. The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham. According to your orders … we shall send them when received. The jailers, whether in London or the county towns, are no officers of ours; and we …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… convictions for robbing Mr. Shelley. Declarations of Nathaniel Paulson, John Lawrence and John Browning. … Nathaniel Paulson, as a dying man, affirmed his innocence of the charge of robbing Mr. Shelley. John Lawrence alias … and that when he (Browning) was before the Lord Mayor of London, he swore that there were two members of his gang that …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… Aug. Windsor. Nottingham's Letters. 1. To the High Sheriff of Surrey. Queen's command:Further reprieving Gallery, who is … Issue a proclamation accordingly and publish it at the Market Cross at Edinburgh and all needful places. "And we, … a French ship of about 90 tons bound to Nantes with mud-fish from Newfoundland. A Dutch privateer had taken this fish …