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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… London, as Bishop of Chichester, which bishopric is vacant by the death of Dr. Robert Grove. [ Ibid. 346, p. 448; Ibid. … and which Unfortunate can be to None, being a proposal by way of lottery, of advantage as well as encouragement to … and Mr. William Brown, with two post-horses, to go to Edinburgh [ Ibid. 344, p. 585]; for Abraham Packer and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to-day he petitioned for a writ of error, or to be heard by his counsel, and had retained Sir Thomas Powis and Sir … lawyers would have been called to an account how they came by a copy of the record, if Mr. Solicitor had not owned he … that he is a protestant, and apprentice to a merchant in Edinburgh. His master was obliged to send him into France and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of the Treaty of Ryswick, as far as they are concerned, by the restitution of the goods that came to their hands, or … to send you a petition lately presented to his Majesty by Mons. Fleury, the person employed by the French to solicit … Warrant for a grant to Alexander Cuningham, writer in Edinburgh, his heirs and assigns heretably, of the top-story …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… which for some months hath been frequently resorted unto by several of that religion, in so much that great notice … priest there in public and private Masses, is very evident by the guilt of his flying for the same, whose name is either … of the warrant for a gift to Alexander Wood, merchant in Edinburgh, and William Stuart, secretary to the duke of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… unjust aspersions of papists and jacobites, or, An answer by a French officer in Cork to a letter sent from an English … to serve King James [they] were so gratefully received by the papists, and we so soon reproached from the … of Cesnock: David Boyle of Kelburn: the lord provost of Edinburgh for the time. [ S.P.57. 17. pp. 4547.] Oct. 21. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… trials are in the county where the fact is committed, or by a jury summoned from thence. I don't see how this man can … unless those he accuses could be found and convicted by his evidence. He made the money and appears the greatest … house. He seems to have come lately in a great fright from Edinburgh, and speaks of the ferment they are in, now they …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Lord Seafield should know it, and I sent him the account by this night's post. I send you a letter I have received … almoner to John Law, one of the ministers of the gospel at Edinburgh, in place of James Kirktoun [ S.P. 57. 17. p. 415.] … merchants, whose effects were seized in the Danzig ships by John de Bart. They have not yet been able to obtain any …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… the margin] This commission was prepared and countersigned by Mr. Blathwayt and entered here by Mr. Yard's directions. [ S.P. 44. 168. p. 235.] Sept. 2. … granted by Act of Parliament, in 1693, to the town of Edinburgh, of 2 d. Scots upon the pint of all ale and beer, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 22 March, 1660-1, aged 17, B.A. 1664, M.A. 1667, D.D. by diploma 9 March, 1685-6; rector of Kingsnorth, Kent, 1663, … vicar of Tottenham, Middx., 1632, until sequestered 1646 by the Westminster assembly; perhaps canon of Lincoln 1664-5, … incorporated 9 Sept., 1661 (son of George, bishop of Edinburgh 1662-71); rector of Wyke Regis, Dorset, 1681. See …
A History of the County of Essex
… the lord of the manor was the only large taxpayer. 19 By 1524, however, the number of persons assessed for subsidy … 20 to 29 Wivenhoe men became Colchester bur- gesses. 22 By the 17th century shipbuilding, alongside the traditional … 7681. J. A. Galloway, 'Colch. and its Region, 13101560' (Edinburgh Univ. Ph.D. thesis 1985), maps 1011. V.C.H. Essex, …