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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… the Severn estuary. 4 It reverted to farm-land after the war and some of its buildings were used for pig- and … estates. 15 The effect of extensive felling during the two world wars 16 was repaired by replanting, and the woods … there were 962 people in 1871 and 885 in 1901. In the first 30 years of the 20th century there was a more rapid and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… were granted to the chapel, probably during the civil war in the 1140s. 97 The church had achieved independence by … Meath. 41 The rectory house was plundered during the Civil War and Walter Raleigh, rector 1620-46 and dean of Wells …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in the lower land to the E. may indicate that a castle was first constructed there, with subsequent removal to the ridge-top owing to the dampness of the first site. b(3) Earthwork, 150 yards E. of (2), appears to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and procorers of helpers to this werke and . . . them that first began and longest shall continowe . . . in the yere of … ceiling-beams and joists, some with foliated stops. On the first floor are original cambered and chamfered tie-beams. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… and one daughter, three shields-of-arms; (2) to Edmond, first Lord Bray, 1539, and John, Lord Bray, 1557, his son, … Cheyne, Viscount Newhaven, 1698, Jane (Cavendish), his first wife, 1669, and Catherine, their daughter, marble … 1702, table-tomb erected 1749; (7) to Simon Box, 1692, the first buried in graveyard, low table-tomb; (8) to Katherine …
Old and New London
… Brewer, in the "Beauties of England and Wales," "was first adopted in the sixteenth century, and the present mode … as the "South Sea Bubble." It may be added, too, that the first red geranium seen in England is said to have been … himself with this neighbourhood as to be known to the world in common parlance as "The Philosopher of Chelsea." Not …
Survey of London
… deposited in the church on two separate occasions, the first being the gift of the Ladies of Chelsea (in 1800), and … Gough was baptised the 22 d of December, and was the First that was baptised in the new Font given by Mr. Edward …
Survey of London
… and the great brick tower might easily be mistaken, at a first glance, for a product of the reign of Henry VIII. It …
Survey of London
… rests y e weary Marchant having tride And finding this world's traffick vaine deside That empty triffle now hes gon to trade In th' other world for gaines which never sade Thence yow shall see when …
Survey of London
… slabs of white marble. The Rev. John Rush was the first incumbent of the old church, after the new parish … of (left) Thomas Hungerford and two sons (the head of the first son is missing), and (right) his wife Ursula, daughter … 3 beacons burning or. The arms of Jervoise and of the first quartering on the impaled coat are given on separate …