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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Blofield Hundred Plumstede Parva PLUMSTEDE PARVA. Tovi held in Plumstede, which was afterwards (as I take it) the principal lordship in this town, a carucate of land, and one villain, with half … as delivered up to him. What belonged to the manor was, in King Edward's time, valued at 5 s. at the survey at 10 s. …
Old and New London
… Beggar's Bush"A Dangerous LocalityModel Lodging Houses in Streatham StreetBloomsbury and Duke StreetsMudie's … hawks, stood here; but on these stables being burnt down, in 1537, the hawks and steeds were removed to the stabling at … enlarged for their reception. "Indeed." remarks Mr. Jesse; in his work on London, "as late as the middle of the last …
Survey of London Monograph
… PURSUIVANT This officer, now one of the four pursuivants in ordinary, is said to have been instituted by Henry V for … the title is almost certainly derived. There is nothing in the public records to corroborate this, though Bluemantle did accompany Garter Bruges to France in 1448 (Warrants for Issues, 26 Hen. VI, nos. 110, 206). The …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of the church, till the end of the reign of Edward III. In the ninth of Edward I., Robert de Blundeston was lord; 1 and in the twenty-third of Edward III., in the year 1348, there was a conveyance from Osbertus, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… have. OED earliest date of use: 1866 under Board Found in units of C, SCORE Sources: Inventories (early). … for display. A method of preparing it has not been noted in the cookery books. However, in the second half of the eighteenth century, some of the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Bollome BOLLOME. Bolum in the book of doomsday is certified to be one of the Berues … of the arch-bishop of Yorkes great manor or Sok of Lanum. In Bolum likewise there was a manor of Roger de Buslies fee, … manor lay six bovats for the gold, of which the Sok was in Saundby. The land two car. There Gaufr. the man of Roger …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… otherwise Bolston BONVILSTON, otherwise BOLSTON, a parish, in the union of Cardiff, hundred of DinasPowys, county of … consisting chiefly of oak and ash; the soil is clayey in some parts, in others gravelly, and the produce is wheat and barley. …
A New History of London
… on June 18, was laid aside on account of the plague, which in the space of a year swept away 35,417 persons; a terrible … one third of the computed inhabitants! this calamity in all likelihood was the occasion of his not being crowned … commons were now sensible of their weight and influence in legislation, and had conceived an idea of attempting a …
A New History of London
… the forms of all public business were altered from being in the king's name, to that of the keepers of the liberties … of Wales 1. Even the king's statues at St. Paul's and in the Royal Exchange were pulled down, and in the niche of the latter was placed the following …
A New History of London
… Charles II. to the destruction of London by the great fire in 1666. King Charles II. was proclaimed May the 8th 1660, at … aldermen, recorder, and sheriffs, with the trained bands. In the mean time the city deputies arrived at the Hague, where in the name of the city of London they presented his majesty …