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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… upper storey projecting on curved brackets. a(35) Becket's Chapel, house, immediately N. of (34), consists of a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a hermitage with a chapel dedicated to St. Thomas Becket, for the repair of which the Bishop of Ely, in 1487, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Clevely. SHIREHEAD.See Clevely. Shire-Newton (St. Thomas Becket) SHIRE-NEWTON ( St. Thomas Becket), a parish, in the division and union of Chepstow, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… then contained the townships of Shrivenham, Watchfield and Becket, 4 the hundred of Wyfold the townships of Faringdon, … Edwinston (or Idstone in Ashbury), Compton, Odstone, Becket, Woolstone, Balking, Fawler, Kingston and Uffington. … constitution of the hundred has changed little since 1327. Becket (in Shrivenham) was not assessed separately for later …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1839, serves as a chapel of ease. Skeffington (St. Thomas Becket) SKEFFINGTON ( St. Thomas Becket), a parish, in the union of Billesdon, hundred of East …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… opportunities offered by the earlier communities Thomas "À Becket," born in Cheapside, the son of a London citizen, is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a place of worship in the township. Sourton (St. Thomas Becket) SOURTON ( St. Thomas Becket), a parish, in the union of Oakhampton, hundred of …
Old and New London
… to enliven their pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket, at Canterbury, by reciting tales to shorten the way. … as religious feeling that drew multitudes to the shrine of Becket, the first Englishman who, since the Conquest, had … along the Old Kent Road towards the shrine of St. Thomas Becket "The holy blissful martyr for to seeke." From this old …
Old and New London
… pilgrims who were bound for the shrine of the holy Thomas Becket at Canterbury. The 'Tabard' inn had been known far and …
Old and New London
… and boys, which was dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr ( Becket). For this ground, which adjoined the wall of the …