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Old and New London
… ROAD.THE SURREY THEATRE, SURREY CHAPEL, &c. Formation of Blackfriars RoadThe Surrey Theatre, originally the "Royal … both in the country and in the metropolis. The Church of England pulpits were, of course, not then open to him; but … accompanied Dr. Blomfield to the Surrey Chapel. The two bishops were great Greek scholars, and as the preacher …
Old and New London
… And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent." Macaulay's Ballad of " The Armada." Situation and … Palologus, Emperor of Constantinople, who had come to England to entreat the assistance of King Henry IV. against … great state by the Duke of Norfolk, and a large retinue of bishops, knights, and gentlemen, "all richly apparelled." His …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Calne parish, and Blackland church stands 2 km. south-east of Calne church. 2 In the 10th century or earlier the land which became the parish was almost certainly part of the king's large estate called Calne, 3 and it was part of the land of Calstone (possibly Calne's east tun). It was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (b)lix. N.E.) Blackmore is a parish and village 3 m. E. of Chipping Ongar. The Church is the principal monument. … Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish (formerly Priory) Church of St. Laurence stands S. of the village. The walls are of … the following can be distinguished( a) France ancient and England quarterly; ( b) Vere impaling sable a cross engrailed …
Survey of London
… Blackwall Yard in 1987, it brought to an end a tradition of shipbuilding and shiprepairing on this site which had begun over 350 years before with the laying-out of a shipyard here in the second decade of the seventeenth … Yard, although not unique in early seventeenth-century England (Deptford, Plymouth and Chatham all had large …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Blackwater BLACKWATER, a large village, in the parish of Yately, hundred of Crondall, Odiham and N. divisions of the county of … the churchyard contains one of the oldest yew-trees in England. There is a place of worship for dissenters. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the 12th century. 54 It seems to have been the centre of the later Woodstock rural deanery until the mid 13th … probably much earlier, the parish included the township of Hensington and the borough of New Woodstock. 56 Despite attempts, notably in the 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Peter Hopkins, by will proved in 1643, for the education of poor children, was presumably paid to the keepers of dame schools, like the schoolmistress who died in 1701. 48 … aided status, and it became a controlled Church of England school. 66 Attendance, which had risen to 66 in 1954, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… (BLAEN-CARON), a hamlet, in the parish and union of Trgaron, upper division of the hundred of Penarth, county of Cardigan, South Wales, 4 miles (E. N. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1220 4 plough-teams were recorded there. 8 In 1301 Ralph of Abenhall's moiety of the manor included a carucate (containing 60 a. of … in Blaisdon churchyard; cf. H. V. Taylor, The Plums of England (1949), 104-5. Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, p. 13; C.P. …