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Alumni Oxonienses
… 1607, aged 14; demy 1606-11, B.A. 30 Jan., 1610-11; bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1619, as son and heir of William, of … fil.; fellow Oriel Coll., M.A. 16 June, 1620, incorporated at Cambridge 1621; will at Oxford proved 23 Dec., 1634. Yale, Samuel of "Danub" ( …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… building and contains some good plaster-work. The Tower, at the S.W. angle, is of three storeys with a moulded plinth and an embattled parapet, carried up at the angles to form turrets. The N., S. and W. sides have each a 16th-century window, at the first floor level, of five transomed lights with a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… lying north-south. The Old Malthouse and Laburnum cottages at the west end of the village are apparently 17th-century. … one house near the school in North End Road and another at the west end of Main Road have datestones for 1734. … the Sparks family, owners of an engineering works, lived at Church House, Yapton Lodge, Grove Lodge, and the large …
A History of the County of Somerset
… triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural … plateau to the south, before crossing the western boundary at 70 m. (230 ft.). In the east a small hill at Seamark 77 wood (143 m. (468 ft.)) separates the plateau …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it to the college, which failed to exercise its right at the first opportunity in 1761, and the bishop presented by … payments of a live beast. 57 The living was assessed at 20 s. in 1254. 58 By 1535 the vicar had the small tithes, … the house unsuitable, 69 and in 1847 Vaughan Thomas, at the behest of the bishop, added a two-storeyed extension …
A History of the County of Oxford
… contained 13 strips, the strips and shots being marked at their ends by pegs or stones. In each mead an area known … Oxey, West mead, Pixey. The allotment was made by drawing, at the head of each strip, one of the balls; when a whole … in 1281: the demesne meadow seems to have been improved at that period, its value rising from 8 d. an acre in 1272 to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at Blenheim and 'early maps' belonging to Sir Henry Dashwood … the parish is mostly fairly flat, rising gently to 61 m. at the village and more steeply to over 91 m. in the … in the 13th century when pressure on resources was at its greatest. Seasonal flooding, while beneficial to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estates In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at the same time he erected into a free royalty. On the … of their growth. There are also some remarkably fine trees at Hangingshaw, among which are a plane and a beech of very … by an accidental fire in 1840. There are small villages at Yarrowford and Ettrick-Bridge, chiefly inhabited by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… attributed with two mills, one of which may have been at Yarwell. In the Middle Ages the village was in Rockingham … it passed to the Earls of Westmorland, all of whom lived at Apethorpe. The manor house seems to have disappeared by … rebuilt during the 1892 restoration. There are offsets at the bases of the E. and side walls. Windows have square …