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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Richard II (1384-5) ANNO 8 RICHARD II. Monday next before the Feast of S. Margaret, Virgin [20 July]. Heylesdon (John … and tenements in the parish of All Hallows de Graschirche, on condition that they maintain thereout two perpetual … so called from its being the property of the Crown, for Stow records a grant by King Henry IV. to certain mercers of …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… 9 Henry IV (1407-8) ANNO 9 HENRY IV. Monday next after the Feast of S. Luke, Evangelist [18 Oct.]. Dadyngton (John), … and shops, together with a tenement called "le horn on the hoop" in the parish of S. Dunstan in Fletestrete, he … spanned the Fleet. 4 On the west side of Smithfield, says Stow, were fair inns and country buildings as far as "Hosiar …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Jackson (Joseph), clothworker.Certain tenements near "the ould Swanne" in the parish of S. Laurence Poultney, which … the reversion of two messuages in the parish of S. Leonard on Fishestreete Hill, after his decease and the decease of … of a manor situate at the north-east corner of Mark Lane (Stow's 'Survey,' Thoms's ed., 1876, p. 57). 1 Prior to the …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Wills James I (1603-25). ANNO 3 JAMES I. Monday next before the Feast of S. Luke, Evangelist [18 Oct.]. Newman (John), … of Waxchaundlers, London, and their successors for ever, on condition they yearly pay to the parson and churchwardens … of copperas (sulphate of iron). 2 A grammar school at Stow-on-the-Wold was also founded by him. 3 It was probably …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Wills Mary I (1553-58) ANNO 1 MARY. Monday next before the Feast of S. Benedict, Abbot [21 March]. Bolton … 2 Jane Artur a certain sum of money, to be paid to her on her marriage. The residue of his goods, together with his … I, fol. 227 b). 3 A woman of this nickname, says Stow, for many years kept a victualling shop in Tower Street …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilsford WILSFORD The ancient parish of Wilsford lies on the west bank of the … to the Avon at Lake. The downland rises to over 400 ft. on Rox Hill. The meanders of the river below Amesbury have …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wilton - Wimpole Wilton WILTON, a hamlet, in the parish of Hale, union of Whitehaven, Allerdale ward above … 4 miles (W.) from Brandon-Ferry. The parish is bounded on the south by the Lesser Ouse, which separates it from the … living is a discharged rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Stow-Bardolph, and valued in the king's books at 5. 6. 8.: …
The Environs of London
… Wimbledon WIMBLEDON. Name. It is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon … two of Ethelbert's generals, Oslac and Cnebba, were slain. On the same common, near the village, is a well, the water of … Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 15. Continuation of Stow's Annals. It is remarkable that Wimbledon-house, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. … Wyndcaleton, and derived that name from its situation on the windings of the river Cale, by which it is bounded on the west. It was the scene of many sanguinary conflicts …
Survey of London
… and Park CHAPTER 6: WINCHESTER HOUSE AND PARK Early in the 12th century the Abbey of Bermondsey granted to the … extending from the precincts of St. Mary's Church on the east to the Manor of Paris Garden (the end of … Then nought must thou say, whatsoeuer thou thinke." Stow speaks of it as having been a prison "for such as should …