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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… were sitting in Westminster Hall, Gibbs said 'that he lyed and that he was a base rascall, and a t[urd] in his teeth.' Gibbs, the son of the … portions.' When Gibbs denied this Walsh gave him the lie and challenged him to fight, saying, 'Come and goe with me …
9th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… in the county of Middlesex, at the humble petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton, esq., and of the possessions thereof. L. 2a. An act for the …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… 4, ref. 11781] Abbey, Harry C., North St, York, joiner and cm (17871810). Died September 1810 aged 38; stock sold March 1811. [D; York Courant, 17 September 1810 and 18 March 1811] Abbey, Jonathan, Queen St, Seven Dials, … 105 Suffolk St, Bimingham, cm (1823). [D] Aston, John, 62 Navigation St, Birmingham, cm (1823). [D] Aston, John, Dudley …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… The common enemy having failed in all their former plots and conspiracies, for the ruin of his Highness 1 and the Government, resolved, (it seems) at last, to bring about their intended mischief, by a vigorous and bloody attempt upon his person. For this end and purpose, …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… drawn scraps of information from a wide variety of sources and touched on subjects dealt with in a great number of … however, would be served by the listing of all sources and secondary authorities consulted. Details of some of them … contemporary attitudes, but as references therein to furs and skinners are brief and incidental, they have nearly all …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises by measurement 1884 acres of land; and contains good building-stone of the granite species, and limestone, both of which are quarried. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 9. 9. 4., and in the gift of the Rev. Thomas Fox: the tithes have been …
A History of the County of Essex
… Abbess Roding Introduction ABBESS RODING Abbess Roding and Beauchamp Roding (q.v.) form the south-west part of the … Roding as part of its name. Of these parishes only Abbess and Beauchamp Roding became part of Ongar hundred, the others … is less clear in this case. 1 Geographically Abbess and Beauchamp Roding have much more in common with the other …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the hamlet of Cevnpawl in the hundred of Kevenlleece, and the hamlet of Gollon in the hundred of Knighton, county … to St. Mary, was founded in 1148, by Cadwallon ab Madoc, and was originally designed for sixty brethren of the … August, 1846, proceeds nearly parallel with the canal, to Navigation, where it joins the Tf-Vale railway from Merthyr …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… bank of the Nethan, a fine stream tributary to the Clyde, and is in the centre of the parish, and contains the parochial church. The inhabitants are … designation of the "Proprietors of the Aberdeenshire Canal Navigation," and empowering them to raise a capital of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Abbreviations ABBREVIATIONS abbreviations and shortened titles of works of reference Arch. J. Royal … Manuscript. Camb. Chron. Cambridge Chronicle. Cambs. and Hunts. Arch. Soc. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society. C.A.S. Cambridge …