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A History of the County of Middlesex
… that in Chelsea 'no progressive has a dog's chance....lord Cadogan rebuilt it fashionably and drove all the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… first mentioned as the venue in 1765 74 and the next year Lord Rockingham was asked to solicit a king's plate to be run …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Rushen abbey. He inspects a charter of Sir John Stanley, lord of Man, dated 1410, granting a rectory to the abbey. The … and Chiefe of [the] holy Church'. 6 After 1542, the lord would present his candidate to the Crown, who would …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the demesne with 60 ploughs, then with 17 harrows. Their lord could also summon up to 600 villagers for a day's hoeing. The 8½ works each were used to reap the lord's crops. Those tenants next provided c. 150 carts to … demesne was normally cultivated directly, either by its lord, as in the 1190s, the 1230s, 97 and the 1310s, 98 or by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to the judgement of the steward of Sir Philip Basset, then lord. 28 In 1313 villagers forced the steward of Basset's … answers at private discussions, in 1397 at night in the lord's barn, sometimes overheard. 41 The Rectory court still … court proceedings were largely formal by 1800, the lord of those two manors still c. 1810 gave a dinner for his …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… tenants, who held 465 a. there. 87 About 1242 each lord of Soham held his manor as ½ knight's fee, Hubert in … 1699 until her death in 1709, and her son John Chicheley, lord 1710-18. 38 In 1719 the lordship passed to Edward … by his daughter Audrey's husband Charles Townshend, 'lord Lynne', who succeeded his father as Viscount Townshend …
Old and New London
… de l'toileSt. Anne's ChurchThe Burial-place of Lord CamelfordVicissitudes of the King of CorsicaThe Parish … or else Soho Fields, and this name had been known, as Lord Macaulay points out, at least a year before Sedgemoor, … if we remember what Stow says of these parts in 1562, 'The Lord Mayor, aldermen, and many worshipful persons rode to the …
Old and New London
… Duke of Monmouth, and after his death it was purchased by Lord Bateman, whose family occupied it for a time; but, as … auction-rooms, but was demolished in 1773. The name of Lord Bateman is still kept up here by a row of narrow houses … not passed away along with the unsavoury name. Of this Lord Bateman, Horace Walpole tells the story that George I. …