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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… apprenticing one or two children annually. Henry Greswolde Lewis, in 1829, gave 1500, directing the dividends to be … considered the safest and most expeditious passage to the island: a steamer plies daily between Yarmouth and Lymington. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Curiosum II Pl. 84) and Pennant's plan ( Tour in Scotland I, Pl. XXXVII). a(14). Mayburgh (Plate 1), earthwork … known, from more than one source ( e.g. Pennant's Tour in Scotland, Pl. XXXVII), that in the 18th century there were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Hist. Suss. ii. 114, wrongly calling it a turnpike; Lewis, Topog. Dict. Eng. (1849). Pike, Dir. SW. Suss. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in recent years, and now consists of a sub-rectangular island, completely overgrown, with no visible surface features. The island is surrounded by a water-filled ditch between 17 m. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… S.E. of the house, formerly enclosed a roughly rectangular island, but is now fragmentary. ConditionOf house, good. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… unites with it about two miles from Selkirk. Yell YELL, an island, in the county of Shetland; containing 3450 inhabitants. This island, one of the most northern of the Shetland group, lies … of numerous hordes of gypsies, of whom the largest body in Scotland seem from time immemorial to have established their …
A History of the County of Oxford
… R.O., D/EL1 T2/1; ibid. T43, leases of 1797 and later. Lewis's Topog. Dict. of Eng. (1840), 640. Below, this …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… distributed in bread, and the surplus in money. Margaret Lewis, of Brecon, in 1733, bequeathed a house and a smith's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a large number of the English exiles, had arrived from Scotland for the same purpose. The garrison, to prevent them … About the commencement of the reign of Charles I., an island, since called Sunk Island, began to appear in the Humber, nearly opposite …