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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… ten years. Henry VIII established it by letters patent of 17 December 1540, in accordance with the statute 31 Hen. VIII c. 9, when the former monastery of St. Peter, Westminster, was reconstituted as a cathedral … was abolished and the monastery restored by Cardinal Pole, archbishop of Canterbury, and on 10 November the …
Old and New London
… For courtly joust or tourney brave." Cavalier Song. Origin of the Word "Tothill"Punishment of NecromancersGrant of a Market and Fair to be held in … is not greater than the annual setting up of the May-pole on the neighbouring village green, or the wayside inn …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Introduction WESTONBIRT WITH LASBOROUGH The rural parish of Westonbirt with Lasborough lies 3 miles south-west of Tetbury. Lasborough, formerly a separate parish, had … were united in 1868. Westonbirt was a small compact parish of 850 a., bounded by a Roman road on the north-east, an old …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WATELEY. There was in Wateleg besides what was a Berue of Lanum, the arch-bishop of Yorks great manor, of the King's wapentac or Soc of … court from three weeks to three weeks. 16 Michael de la Pole earl of Suffolk held before his forfeit the manor of …
Survey of London
… PALACEHISTORY The King did not wait for the completion of the legal formalities before taking possession of York … at Whitehall before Philip and Mary to receive Cardinal Pole as special ambassador from the Pope. A year later (4th November, 1555) Pole held a synod of both the convocations at Whitehall, that …
Old and New London
… Whitehall forsaken as a Royal ResidencePartial Restoration of the PalaceThe Cock-pitCromwell and Sir Roger L'EstrangeDeath of Oliver CromwellThe Ultimate Fate of Cromwell's BodyThe … colour, seemed to have grown after death. An ashen pole, pointed with iron, had received the head clumsily …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… been the greatest distress among all classes in all parts of the country. Let us try to be proportionably grateful. 2. … very soon also. Prostitution is carried on in some parts of London to a shameful extent, and the parishes in which … of his entertainment entitled 'A Journey from the North Pole to the Equator'. The proceedings were conducted in a …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… was favoured with a sharp thunderstorm, perhaps a remnant of that one which astonished Liverpool yesterday. The Queen … gone to Manchester; they take up their abode at the Earl of Ellesmere's during their stay there. The enquiry into the … diagrams etc. Fine and cold. Today the stoppage of the Wolverhampton Banking Company was announced, liabilities from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Count Alan's manorial demesne at Wicken included three out of the seven hides formerly assessed on the vill, and a third of its twelve ploughlands. But he had on it, with 5 servi, … a., over half on the Little Isleham fee, were held freely of Wicken manor, excluding Spinney priory's 115 a. The lord …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1500-1714 Widdis-Wilshman Widdis-Wilshman Widdis, Brian of Wilts, 'paup.' New Coll., matric. 23 Oct., 1601, aged 15. … 25 Feb., 1607-8, M.A. 27 Jan., 1613-14; vice-principal of Gloucester Hall, and chaplain to Katharine, Duchess of … B.A. sup. Oct., 1539; one of these names prebendary of Wolverhampton 1547, rector of Beaconsfield, Bucks, 1549, etc. …