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A History of the County of York
… 30 intra-mural churches and their parishes are spread more or less evenly over the city. Outside the walls there were, … seldom have been exercised: here were no burgess tenements or citizens to be taxed and civil disorder was unlikely to … certain closes to a public house (probably 'The Light Horseman') in Fishergate, and so to the well and the Ouse. …
A History of the County of Durham
… taxation had been internal, and had been imposed by bishop or prior as the case might be; but John now began to impose burdens which no appeal to ancient right or liberty could evade. 1 In Durham, during the long vacancy … hand, which after the Pilgrimage of Grace had hit hard. A horseman on the London road said to a man of Durham: 95 'Is …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… account are of wine (a sextary and a half, a sextary, or half a sextary) sent to the following persons: Roger … fines and rents which has no evidence of year, and may or may not belong to this account. Enclosed with this is a … of the price of armour and complete fitting out of a horseman-at-arms. Roger Atfurton sues Thomas Leynham for "1 …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… 24 Oct. to receive directions for the furniture of a light horseman. And other papers connected with this muster. 1588, …
Survey of London
… him to 'keep the necessary amount of money unemployed, or invested at a low rate of interest, upon the doubtful … 36 Subsequently an 'amended plan' for building 'two houses or a double house' on the site, with new designs by Wyatt and … Ibid., file 11119; P.R.O., C54/1666, Chamberlain et al. to Horseman, C54/2313, no. 22; K.P.L., Millington's Book, pp. …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… according to law. Mr. Annesley. I am against any new word or new way. Instead of the word "sequestration," which is a … any monies in their hands, belonging to the Commonwealth, or due and owing by them, or any of them, by contract or … with us, and I shall give my hearty yea to it. Major Horseman. All ordinances not confirmed by that act were void. …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… it in the lobby, but knows not whether he was a petitioner or no. It should seem, it was moved to give the petitioners … by his good services as a spy for Charles Stuart, or, in the plausible language of his biographer, by "secretly … to escape to London, riding behind one of them. The single horseman going before, went to an inn on the road, and, as he …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… seems to have been included in the royal demesne or held in thegnage at a rent or service of 10 s. a year. 2 About the middle of the twelfth … or suspected persons, was required to furnish a light horseman accoutred (or 24) for the queen's service in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of their own, and in 1705 the journey to London by water or by coach took less than an hour. 7 Ferries To cross the … Bridge was opened, 8 travellers were carried by watermen or used the ferry. The passage over the Thames at 'Cenlee' … charges at that time were 1d. for every horse or beast and horseman in the horseboat, and ½d. for everyone on foot. 1 A …