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Calendar of Treasury Books
… etc March 1699, 16-31 March 1699, 16-31 March 16. Same to the Customs Commissioners to report on the enclosed extract [missing] of Secretary Vernon's letter … 25 l. to Nahum Tate for 1699 Lady quarter on his salary as Poet Laureat. Money Book XIV, p. 332. March 31. [probably an …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… 17. Money order for 10 l. to John Broadhurst, porter of the Exchequer gate, for half-a-year to Sept. 29 last on his allowance for the better securing his Majesty's treasure and for attending … for last Sept. 29 quarter on his salary or allowance as Poet Laureat. Money Book XV, p. 194. Same for 50 l. to Thomas …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… Warrants of the Protector and Council Warrants of the Protector and Council. Date. To Subject. References. … Abell to Holland 125 163 " " " For John Harvey and Eliz. Oldham to Holland 125 163 " " " For Jacob Cops to Holland 125 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… bedel civil law Oxford 1671; died 29 Aug., 1690; father of the next. See Ath. i. p. cvii, and iii. p. 884; & Harewood's … 1687-90; died 4 April, 1711, aged 48, buried in the college chapel; will at Oxford proved 7th. See Hearne, … Street, 1524. See Foster's Index Eccl. [Watson, Thomas a poet, and a Londoner born, died 1591-2. See Ath. i. 601.] …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Watchett WATCHETT, a sea-port and market-town, in the parish of St. Decuman, union of Williton, hundred of … an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Prestwich cum Oldham, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (E. by N.) from Oldham; containing upwards of 4000 inhabitants. It is about a …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… Water Water. I. 28. Letter from Sir Christopher Hatton to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen respecting an … arrangement made between his servant, Peter Morice, 1 and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City for … 24th, 1598. This nobleman was a man of letters and a poet. The first Marquis, his grandfather, married Elizabeth, …
Old and New London
… Fundamenta locant." Virgil, "n.," i. St. James's Fields in the Time of Charles I.St. James's MarketThe "Mitre Tavern" and Mrs. Oldfield, the ActressHannah Lightfoot and her Union with the Prince of … who has ever succeeded in realising to the full the poet's exquisite conception of "Marguerite," in Faust. This …
A History of the County of Hertford
… (xiii cent.); Watteford (xiv cent.); Watfurth (xvi cent.). The parish of Watford is situated in the south-western corner of the county. It is watered by two … and Bishop Gunning of Ely. Giles Fletcher, ambassador and poet, was born in or about 1549 at Watford. He went on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. From the late 18th century Wellington town shared some of the social advantages of the county's ancient boroughs and … 1949 22 and in 1962 an extension was declared open by the poet Philip Larkin, 23 librarian 1943-6. 24 In 1980 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wembworthy Welnetham, Great WELNETHAM, GREAT, a parish, in the union of Thingoe, hundred of Thedwastry, W. division of … E. by S.) from Bury St. Edmund's; containing, with part of the hamlet of Sicklesmere, 514 inhabitants. The living is a … was purchased in 1665 by Daniel Wycherley, father of the poet, and by him sold to the unprincipled Judge Jeffreys, who …