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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Newsletter. The armies under the command of Mons. Villeroy and Mons. Boufflers are still in their former camps, but that … the King has been pleased to give it to the Earl of Arran, and the Earl's regiment in England to Colonel Daniel Harvey. … Tomorrow the King intends to review the English horse and dragoons at Dighem. We have received advice that the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… I have received your letter of the 6th inst. new style, and hope you have now got into your own house, and that you have likewise found an admission into your … MajorGeneral Earle goes over with them. The wind is fair, and weather moderate. We have been in a concern lest we …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… the Apostle, charged with the maintenance of Roger his son and with the payment of an annuity to Thomas his son, to whom … of S. Thomas the Martyr of Acon, 1 London. The master and brethren of the said house to maintain the aforesaid … in religion either in their house or elsewhere, and to provide two chantries in their church of S. Thomas the …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… towards the Tower. Bequests to the church of the same and ministers thereof; also to John Bolag his servant, upon … said John rendering account of all the testator's goods and chattels in his charge; to his apprentices and servants, to Blase de Bury and Amy, wife of the same, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Modern town government and poor relief MODERN TOWN GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES In great contrast to the early period of … large quantities of water; the chief danger was that of epidemics capable of diffusion by water supply. 29 In due …
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 union, in the hundred of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, … foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of … from William Rufus the grant of a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St. Giles, to be held 'on the Eastern hill of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… north from where Jewry Street meets the North Walls and City Road, passes west of the site of Hyde Abbey. There … in Hyde Street of early 17th-century date. It faces north and south at right angles to the street, and has been partly rebuilt, all the windows being …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … granting to the citizens of Winchester all the liberties and customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry …
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 …