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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Mar. 1. Whitehall. Sir William Trumbull to the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen of London. The King has been informed … in the guards, "being of a gentleman's family, in age and in want," for the next vacancy among the Poor Knights of … The King has been pleased to order that Thomas Richardson and John Brown, now in the gaol of St. Albans for …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… that has been applied has been with great success; and, I thank God, I am now at perfect ease, but very low and weak. The doctors assure me that by the end of next week … my journey for England. There being but one yacht here and the duchess of Ormond going for England I have ordered …
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 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… September 1701 Sept. 2. Loo. Royal warrant to the provost and fellows of Trinity College, Dublin; reciting that the … above 63 days in any one year without royal dispensation: and dispensing with the statutes of residence on behalf of Dr. Owen Lloyd, senior fellow of the college and professor of divinity, that he might remain abroad for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wincanton - Windy Nook Wincanton (St. Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a … embellished with remains of ancient stained glass of rich hue: the subjects are chiefly the Apostles and Prophets, and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present … borough of Winchester lay within the walls, but the east and west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and enactment, others clearly derive from remote antiquity. … the convicted citizen suffered brutal mutilation 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In … the warrant of royal charter to Wallingford, Portsmouth and possibly elsewhere. One illustration of this may be …
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 Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Wisbech and the civil war WISBECH AND THE CIVIL WAR The ship money controversy affected Wisbech … Corporation 'concerning the King's Majesties Shippinge' and 'about the Towne business to get abatement for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop …