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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, USUALLY CALLED ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY. IN THE EASTERN SUBURB of the city, is the precinct … the neighbouring priory of Christ-church. King Ethelbert's two printed charters of the donation and foundation of this … him from Rome, and had directed (and that with the pope's licence) that he and all his successors should be buried in …
Survey of London
… in England, and in the same year William Arnaud, a king's knight, gave the friars a piece of land in the Strand to hold for an annual rent of 3 s. from the Abbot and Convent of Westminster, the chief lords of the fee. It had been part of Westminster Abbey's possessions 'a tempore quo non extat memoria'. 26 Here the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… suffered at and after the Reformation. In bishop Fisher's time the income of this see amounted to only 300l. in the king's books it is valued at 358l. 4s. 9d. and, like many other … was almost always made in conformity to the archbishop's Cong de lir till the year 1235, when the archbishop …
Magna Britannia
… the canons of Carlisle were banished by Gualo the Pope's legate, because, through fear of death, they had said mass … was joined by several English, attached to the Pretender's interest. The Duke of Cumberland having pursued the rebels … sword, but reserved to be dealt with according to the King's pleasure 12. Among the prisoners taken was the Rev. James …
Survey of London Monograph
… is more courtly, less breezy, in lieu of the guildsman's tunic and hood, we have the periwig and the curls. Writing … our passing a fine of the land which Sir R. Browne my Wife's father freely gave to found and build their Colledge or Almeshouses on at Deptford, it being my wife's after her father's decease. It was a good and charitable …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… de Pembroc, and Pembroke Hall it remained until the 1830's. The foundress was the daughter of Guy V, Count of St. Pol, … of the founder of Michaelhouse; it lay outside the King's Ditch and ran northwards along it. The foundress's confessors had been Franciscans, and perhaps it is due to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… them the peaceful enjoyment of the tithes of St. Peter's Church. Further controversy was only ended in 1340 after … same time the Master and Scholars were ordered to pay 20 s. a year to the hospital; and this payment, which is still (1952) made to St. John's College, was enforced by a threat of severe ecclesiastical …
Survey of London
… amenities of the site. 16 A Mr. John Halliday of Lincoln's Inn was particularly active in this opposition, and his … to the West End was shut off by the Duke of Bedford's estate, whose boundary intercepted, by a mere stone's … afterwards baron of the exchequer. No. 91. 180103, Dr. Curling; 182225, Robert Espinasse, barrister; 1826, Dr. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… who died in 1424, and was buried in this church, dying s. p. in the reign of Henry VI. Agnes his sister, married to … this seat with her presence; and it is said in Camden's Remains, to the reputation of this family, that there were … Wiltshire, clerk, and Thomas the fifth was of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury. Sir Alexander Colepeper, the eldest son, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and weakening its force, so that about king Henry VII.'s time, that part of the Wantsume, which ran by Sarre towards … lessened the force of the tide, and of the Stour's waters mixing with it, which occasioned the sands to … or. Tenche, of Birchington, in the visitation of 1619. Curling, of this island, in the same; arms, Or, on a pale, …