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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… September 1695 September 1695 Sept. 1. Whitehall. The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Capell. [ S.P. Ireland, King's Letter … is a memorial (undated) offered to the Lords Justices of England, relating to chantries and other superstitious … to prepare an order for Colonel Norcott's regiment, now at Portsmouth, to embark and go with Sir George Rooke to the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… September 1696 September 1696 Sept. 1. Whitehall. The Duke of Shrewsbury to the King. I have not this long while been sensible of so real a joy, as I was to find by your letter of the 24th … are ordered to be victualled for five months, and those at Portsmouth to be supplied every fourteen days with what they …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… III September 1697 September 1697 Sept. 1. The Marquis of Winchester to [Sir Joseph Williamson ?]. The House of Commons, by 90 to 74, has to-day carried an alteration in … The Earl of Bellomont intends to go next week to Portsmouth, there to embark on the Deptford man of war, which …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… 2. Whitehall. R. Yard to Lord Ambr. Williamson. Letters of 27 Aug. from Dublin state that several vessels, transporting Brigadier Belcastel's regiment of foot, arrived on the 23rd at Kinsale from Flanders; and … from Flanders, were also upon the coast. Letters from Portsmouth say that the seamen of Vice Admiral Aylmer's …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… 1. Loo. Commission to Francis Fowke, esq., to be captain of that company whereof William Forbes, esq., was late captain in colonel Edward Fox's regiment of foot. [ In the margin] This commission was prepared and … of the Board of Ordnance to the lords justices concerning Portsmouth. In obedience to your commands of 17th Aug. last …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Sept. 2. Loo. Royal warrant to the provost and fellows of Trinity College, Dublin; reciting that the fellows are not … royal dispensation: and dispensing with the statutes of residence on behalf of Dr. Owen Lloyd, senior fellow of … same letter to Mr. Edisbury at Harwich, the governor of Portsmouth and the mayor of Rye. [ Ibid. pp. 2267.] Sept. 6. …
The Environs of London
… WIMBLEDON. Name. It is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon and Wymbeldon, was derived from one of its early proprietors. I have seen ancient records in … of this county of Surry, and captain and governour of Portsmouth; and after so many travells returned to this …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from … progress, however, was interrupted by the destruction of Portsmouth and Southampton, in 1337, by the French; also, in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The ancient custom THE ANCIENT CUSTOM OF WINCHESTER The 'ancient custom,' the 'old law' of Winchester so often allowed to the rising boroughs 1 of … spread under the warrant of royal charter to Wallingford, Portsmouth and possibly elsewhere. One illustration of this …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the … of the treasury chest and treasure from Winchester to Portsmouth, Rochester, London or Southampton, &c.; sums for …