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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Jackson (Joseph), clothworker.Certain tenements near "the ould Swanne" in the parish of S. Laurence Poultney, which … will of the said James, dated 18 April, 1618, he leaves to the Masters, Wardens, and Commonalty of the Mistery of the … found set out in a Report made by Mr. Hare to the Charity Commissioners in 1864, appear to be regulated by a decree in …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Wills Mary I (1553-58) ANNO 1 MARY. Monday next before the Feast of S. Benedict, Abbot [21 March]. Bolton (Christopher), skinner.To be buried in the parish church cloister of All Hallows … ( not Henry VIII. as stated in the Company's Return to the Commissioners in 1884), dated 22 July, A.D. 1486, as a …
Survey of London
… Wilmington Square area CHAPTER X. Wilmington Square Area The area described in this chapter, centred on Wilmington … Square, lies between Amwell Street and Farringdon Road to the east and west, and Lloyd Baker Street and Rosebery … officer appointed by Robert Peel in 1829 as one of two commissioners to organize London's new police force. Of five …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilsford WILSFORD The ancient parish of Wilsford lies on the west bank of the … 1 The ancient parish extended some 2 miles from east to west, and 1 miles from north to south. Its area in 1878 … The prebendal estate was transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1838. 96 The prebend was endowed with lands …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Queen's Coll. 9 July, 1612, D.D. 8 June, 1614; chaplain to the master of the rolls 1614, of Lincoln's Inn 1621, rector … 3 March, 1597-8, aged 15; (son of William, D.D.); admitted to King's Coll., Cambridge, 1598; incorporated as D.Med. 12 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Decline DECLINE The outstanding feature of the later medieval history of … between the 13th and 15th centuries; all the evidence goes to show that while Wilton of the 12th century was still a … Wilton remained one of the commoner meetingplaces of the commissioners. The 'knights' disappeared about 1242 and in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Schools and charities SCHOOLS The Free School was founded with a bequest of 600 to the rector and churchwardens as trustees from Walter Dyer, … receive 5, 2 and 2 respectively. The report of the Charity Commissioners of 1903 showed that to some extent this charity …
The Environs of London
… Wimbledon WIMBLEDON. Name. It is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon … In a survey of the manor, dated 1612, this parish is said to contain 1648 acres of cultivated land; its whole extent is … Cecil had purchased 56. In 1658 it was presented to the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Wincanton WINCANTON The ancient parish of Wincanton lies in the south-east part … minster parish of Bruton. Traces of that link were still to be found in the 1080s when a new hundred was created of … of Wincanton People (1896), 60; Wincanton Monthly Messenger (Jan.-Dec. 1855); Bowden, Wincanton, 135. P.R.O. HO …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. … the immediate vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was shed the first … its ancient character: the other gates were removed by the commissioners appointed in 1770, by act of parliament, for …