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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Coleford COLEFORD The Parish and former market town of Coleford, 7 km. ESE. of Monmouth, … parish which, being created by assarting from the woodland and waste of the Forest of Dean, had many detached parts. 96 … a local landowner, was levying tolls at Scowles for the maintenance of the road to Highmeadow by way of Crossways in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in the City of London Coleman Street … Ward includes the parishes of St. Stephen Coleman Street and St. Olave Old Jewry and part of the parish of St. Margaret Lothbury. The churches …
A Survey of London
… Warde on the North side thereof is Colemanstreete Ward, and beginneth also in the East, on the course of Walbrooke in Lothbury, and runneth west on the South side to the end of Ironmongers lane, and on the North side to the West corner of Bassinges hall …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… lying 12 km. SSW. of Cheltenham, covers 890 ha. (2,198 a.) and is irregular in shape. 1 The river Churn runs across the … brook, a tributary called Lyde brook in the 18th century and early 19th; 2 in a Saxon survey of an estate in … brook. 3 On the west the parish is bounded by the river and streams but elsewhere by field boundaries. 4 The Churn …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… COLKIRK ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Launditch, W. division of Norfolk, … 1487 a. 21 p., of which 955 acres are arable, 392 meadow and pasture, and 140 woodland; the surface is elevated, and the scenery …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Blessed Mary within the parish church, by Sir William Wade and others, in the year 1356. 1 The founder had represented the shire in Parliament from 1342 to 1352, and was afterwards buried at Manton. 2 His college was … for three chaplains, of whom one was to be warden, and their main duty was to sustain the divine office in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1 Although Henry IV provided the bulk of its endowment and figured as founder in 1410 2 the college owed its … there so that daily masses might be celebrated by himself and a fellow-chaplain for the souls of the slain. 4 The site … the endowments secured in 1410 as adequate for its maintenance. A small piece of land near the college in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… wife Adelize 1 is not out of accord with known facts and may embody some elements of truth. It seems clear, … the life-interests in the manors of Stoke St. Milborough and Morville which they had earlier been given. 2 Material … have imagined, too, that its church would form an imposing and attractive feature in the new town he planned to …
A History of the County of London
… of a vision placed an image of the Virgin there, and obtained a special indulgence from the bishop of London for those who visited the chapel, and contributed to its repair. 1 In 1442 John Somerset, … Surrey, part of the alien priory of Ogbourne, for the maintenance of a chantry of two chaplains to pray for the …
A History of the County of Durham
… 1 Having fallen somewhat into decay, it was reconstituted and endowed in 1292 by Bishop Bek, who erected a new chapel and other buildings for the canons, 2 and bestowed tithes to the amount of 10 per annum for a new …