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Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… &c., for the preservation of the peace on the ensuing May-day. Whitehall, 29th April, 1626. IX. 34. Letter from Mr. …
A Survey of London
… yeares the wrestling is onely practised on Bartholomew day in the after, in one after noone and no more. What should …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ride. 52By 1609 he was neglecting all weekday and saints' day services, failed to perform burials, and at last left his … where he 'continually preached God's word' each 'Sabbath day'. 56William Sayer, presented in 1634, held the living …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… both manors one. Besides carting the demesne crops in one day with 30 or more carts, each attended by two men, all the Denny customary tenants owed 1 day a year each for haymaking, and all, except cottagers, … the lord being entitled c. 1425 to a fee for each day's digging. The sale of turf outside the parish was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by then linked to the National Society, had 39 and 45 day pupils respectively. 87Three dame schools were still kept … laid down. 90About 1867 almost 150 children attended the day school, about half boys, but few over 10. Working boys …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… where a new and larger one was excavated in 1975. 17 May Day customs and village sports on the green, still kept up in … it was often well attended, some 80 visitors coming on one day in 1831, though it became less rowdy after 1860. 21In the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… hired men for gaming in alehouses at night and sleeping by day. 44It repeatedly demanded maintenance of drainage, and …
Survey of London
… in conjunction with those of His Allies, on the Eighteenth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and fifteen. The …
Old and New London
… Oldfield, was living when the latter was quite young. One day the girl was overheard reading a play with so much power … the most celebrated Whig toast and beauty of her day. The theatre was opened April 9th, 1705, with an Italian … loudly complained of the profanation of the Lord's Day. A scuffle ensued between the soldiers and the people, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in July, and the first Wednesday after Old Michaelmas-day for sheep. A neat obelisk was erected in 1820, on the …