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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… London Diary, July-December 1856 1. JULY. Finished 'Tunny' and went to Mr Foster's at St Johns Wood. No news. Fine day. 2. Began a fish and also a machine. Went to cricket in the afternoon to … "Calvert," cut up wood. In evening went to Southwark Literary Institution to hear the annual recitations of my …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… 1. Finished Egyptian stamp, read two tales, cut up wood and began ancient wood cut figures. Very wet and in morning was favoured with a sharp thunderstorm, … school) annual recitations etc came off at the Southwark Literary Institution, Boro Road. It was about as good a show …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… had intended to have had a moonlight stroll round Warwick and perhaps to have gone as far as Stratford on Avon and to … errands, finished no. 1 engine, cut up wood, began the Literary and Philosophical Institute at Newcastle on Tyne. 20. Went to Cord's twice, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Woodside, North Wick WICK, a royal burgh, the county town, and a parish, in the county of Caithness; containing, with Pulteney-Town adjoining and the villages of Sarclet, Staxigoe, Reiss, and Ackergill, … incumbent of the parish in 1713, was eminent for his literary attainments, and was author of a work entitled Dying …
A History of the County of Northampton
… which here forms the boundary between Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. 38 The parish is separated by the river from Thornton and Beachampton (Bucks.) on the south, and is bounded on the west by Leckhampstead (Bucks.) and in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the whole benefice was taxed in the late 13th century, 76 and the 1270s. It was by then in dispute with Anglesey … of the church confirmed by the bishop of Norwich and the Pope. 80 No vicarage was established, and all the tithes, great and small, which in 1340 yielded …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… supervision of the local bailiff of the honor of Richmond, and the assizes of bread and of ale, with the right to a tumbrel and pillory, but infangthief, with a gallows. 51 In the 1410s …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are waste. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for 35, and the impropriate for 30. Widdington (St. Mary) WIDDINGTON … 2 r. 37 p., of which 1375 acres are arable, 337 pasture, and 248 woodland. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 25, and in the gift of W. J. Campbell, Esq.: the tithes have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a joint benefice was created, known as Ramsden, Finstock and Fawler, Leafield with Wychwood and Wilcote. 97 The first known presentation to the living was that made between 1209 and 1219 by Adam Butler, 98 and the advowson passed with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 It lies 4 miles (6.4 km.) south by east of Charlbury, and 5 miles (8 km.) north by east of Witney, for long its market and social centre. 50 Wilcote was from the Middle Ages and … analysed Aug. 1987 by Mr. I. Gourlay, Oxford Forestry Institute, whose assistance is gratefully acknowledged. …