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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Boughton, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from … on the south. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 19. 16. 2., and in the gift of Lord H. … Appletree, and partly in that of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 5 miles (S.) from Derby; …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1500-1714 Barrowby-Benn Barrowby-Benn Barrowby, William s. Joh., of London, gent. Trinity Coll., matric. 6 Nov., … B.Med. 1709, D.Med. 1713, fellow coll. phys. 1718, F.R.S. 1721, physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1750, died … dec., another licence 2 Sept., 1608 (aged 21, and a bachelor), to marry Jane, daughter of Matthew Isham, of …
Old and New London
… X. BERMONDSEY ( continued).THE ABBEY, &c. The sacred taper's lights are gone, Grey moss has clad the altar-stone, The … holy shrine to ruin sunk, Departed is the pious monk; God's blessing on his soul!" Scott. The Dissolution of … and Bray's "History of Surrey" we read that he was a bachelor, that he desired to be buried in the church of St. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1538, took its name. 24 An alehouse stood at Bishop's Hall in 1642, 25 two (the Dun Cow and the White Bear) in Dog Row in 1652, 26 and one (the Half Moon) in Collier's Row in 1653. 27 Most early public houses were presumably … the green, including the Black Bull tavern, near Gerbier's house in 1642 28 and possibly identifiable with a timber …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… 1 Land in the parish belonged to the bishop of Worcester's estate by the river Coln in the early 8th century when land … but the floor of the Coln valley is formed from fuller's earth from which issue many springs, the most notable … called fish fee was recorded in the 1260s. 20 The bishop's fishery was mentioned c. 1285 21 and in the later Middle …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to do service to Miles of Gloucester. The rights of Miles's family evidently lapsed or were challenged, for c. 1170 Ranulph's son Hugh of Cyveiliog granted the fee of Bisley to Humphrey … son William (d. 1707). The younger William, who remained a bachelor, devised Daneway manor to Nathaniel Hancox, a …
A New History of London
… prince. The only check to the general festivity on James's arrival, was that old enemy of the metropolis, the plague; … was destroyed; and a pasquinade was fixed on St. Paul's church, promising an art to assist weak memories, in … of the earl of Suffolk. Mr. Thomas Sutton, a rich old bachelor, now purchased it of that family for 13,000 l; and …
Survey of London
… him en bloc in July 1721. 1 This particular part of Barlow's ground formed a hinterland behind the main street frontages … 1881 and the passage to the north and west of St. George's Buildings was called Bourdon Place. The remainder of … Broadbent Street), a small utilitarian red-brick block of 'bachelor chambers', of four tall storeys, the topmost lit by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Brasenose Hall, who died in 1508, bequeathing 6 13 s. 4 d. towards the building of 'Brasynose in Oxford, if such … Formby, Principal in 1502 and 150810, was one of Sutton's co-agents in holding the property purchased for the college … Lincoln Cathedral in 1508 and owned lands in the founder's parish of Prescot, but his name is not found in the …
The Environs of London
… at Brentford, (on Tuesday,) to the prioress of St. Helen's, and an annual fair on St. Laurence's day, the vigil, and the four days following'. For some time … of September, in the character of Heartwell in the Old Bachelor. From this period he remained in London, chiefly at …