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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… provocation, with intention as seemed to kill him, and did likewise draw his sword upon Lieut. Coll. Stanhope, … footguards, who interposed to save Davenant from danger: and that Powell could not or would not find security for … Commissions to Henry Devennish, esq., to be exempt and eldest captain of the second troop of guards [ S.P.44. …
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 … earl of Argile &c, [as in the foregoing list], they first swearing the oath of allegiance and subscribing the same, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Ellis, enclosing copies of a letter from Mr. Jno. Goddard and of affidavits, to be laid before Secretary Vernon. [ … the Cloudesly Galley, when she was burnt (off Majorca), and had taken a great deal of goods and money out of her at Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malaga and at sea, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… 1. Whitehall. Passes for Frances la Lussiere, with Peter and Mary her children, to go to Holland; for John Bonnet and his wife, Catherine and John her children, Peter Bonet, his wife, and Catherine …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… 1 at the entrance of their cloister. Bequests for pious and charitable uses for the good of his soul and the souls of Margaret his wife, his father and mother, Ralph and Robert ( sic), and others, including …
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 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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually belonging to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group seem to have been associated with the cloth industry and to have had London trade links, those from Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town may have post-dated her death c. 1176; …