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Cardiff Records
… would be impossible in my dissertation to call the reader's attention to even a tithe of the matter of peculiar … Wills is the long preamble, setting forth the Testator's state of health, his sensibility of the certainty of death, … usual, also, was the practice of bequeathing a ewe and lamb to a female grandchild, or a measure of corn to a …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… (1603-25). ANNO 3 JAMES I. Monday next before the Feast of S. Luke, Evangelist [18 Oct.]. Newman (John), grocer.To the … called "the Starr" in Colemanstreet in the parish of S. Stephen; remainder to such child or children of the body … a messuage called "the Katherine Wheele," near Holbourne Conduit, in the parish of S. Sepulchre, in fee. To Mary …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… I (1553-58) ANNO 1 MARY. Monday next before the Feast of S. Benedict, Abbot [21 March]. Bolton (Christopher), … 1546. Roll 246 (152). ANNO 1 MARY. Monday the Feast of S. Leonard, Abbot [6 Nov.]. Wylkyns (Robert), the elder, … London and their successors for the maintenance of their conduit pipes and water-course. Also to his aforesaid wife …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… united to the rectory of Hockwold, and valued in the king's books at 6. 7. 6. The church is in the decorated and later … hundred of Chewton, E. division of Somerset, 8 miles (S. W.) from Bath; containing 1480 inhabitants. Wilton (St. … hundred of Branch and Dole, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. divisions of Wilts, 3 miles (W. by N.) from Salisbury, and …
The Environs of London
… that this calculation includes 800 acres of Lord Spencer's park, of which 600 are pasture and 200 arable. Two hundred … ground swampy 1. Wimbledon is charged the sum of 471 l. 8 s. to the land-tax, which, in the year 1791, was at the rate … Record of Doomsday. See note, p. 10. Cart. Miscellan. Lamb. MS. Library, vol. xiii. N o 14. Recital of the grant …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Waterside and Silver Street in the west and to the foot of Conduit (later Bayford) Hill in the east, where Coylton … behind existing frontages 24 in Flingers Lane, Ireson's Lane, and Bond's, Clewett's, and Dowding's yards, all north … in the 19th century was largely in brick. The former Lamb inn is an L-shaped building of the late 15th or the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was shed the first blood in the … the hospital are the almshouses founded in 1558, by Ralph Lamb, who endowed them for the support of six widows. By a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester St Mary's College ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Immediately south-west of Wolvesey Palace in the … Next to it is the kitchen, formerly with a projecting conduit or covered bath-room, now marked only by a tap and a …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 'for the liveries of Nicholas the keeper of the king's house at Windsor.' The existence of a chapel within the … the first seven years nothing was done, but the chaplain's pay of a penny a day points to the maintenance of the … the castle, where it ended in a gorgeous fountain or head-conduit built in the middle of the upper ward in 15578. One …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. German), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 9 miles (E. S. E.) from Hedon; containing 139 inhabitants. The parish is … fertile clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12, and in the patronage of Mrs. Hildyard, of …