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Alumni Oxonienses
… from Emanuel Coll., Cambridge, 1641; chaplain in Colonel Gold's regiment, minister of Brighthelmstone, Sussex, rector … John B.C.L. supd. June, 1540; perhaps vicar of Hillingdon-with-Uxbridge, Middlesex, 1540 (as Yeareth), chancellor of … co. Cardigan, 1541, rector of Hodgeston 1542, and of Nash with Upton, (both) co. Pembroke, 1542, prebendary of Trallong …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… yerd; yer; yearde; yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most important in the Dictionary … FOOT, 900 for the yard of 16½ FOOT Only loosely connected with the idea of a unit of measure was the nautical term for … yellow metal leaf, presumably as a cheap substitute for GOLD LEAF or SILVER LEAF. OED earliest date of use: 1647 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… most of the tower, the spire and the S. porch which, with the dressings throughout the church, are of Barnack-stone ashlar. The roofs are covered with lead. There was apparently a cruciform church on the … loft modern; on close lower panels on N. a band of gold monograms M.R., on a red ground, one to each panel, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… rectory, rated in the king's books at 5. 3. 9., endowed with 400 private benefaction and 400 royal bounty, and in the … importance. There is a day and Sunday school in connexion with the Established Church. Yn-Dre-Isa (Yn-Y-Dre-Isf) … found, in the year 1816, a very beautiful torques of pure gold, measuring fifty-two inches in length, and weighing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to Llwyd, the learned Welsh antiquary, it is identified with the city termed by the Britons Caer Effioc, and, among the towns mentioned by Ptolemy, with the Eboracum of the Romans. The latter name is probably … and which, after having been lost and stripped of its gold ornaments, was restored to the church by Henry, Lord …
Survey of London Monograph
… temp. Ed. IV unconfirmed. Query if he is not identical with John Water, Warwick and Chester. See Chester (7). Arms: … & later dictionaries add: Crest: A demi-talbot argent with an arrow gules in the mouth. 4. ROWLAND PLAYNFORD … between 3 bugle-horns sable stringed or. Crest: On a gold crown a stag's head erased argent attired or. Motto: …
Survey of London
… 5 granted "all his houses and the court, together with a certain stable which is not of the same court, in the … the Abbey granted to Hubert "all their houses and court, with a free chapel to celebrate and hear divine service for … also all the walls of the gallery hanged with cloths of gold and tissue of divers makings, and cloths of silver …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… Ottor, late of Walkamstoo in co. Essex, gent. 10 messuages with lands in Grymston and Hulskelf. 1516 TRINITY TERM, 8 … Thomas Kendall Wm. Acton and Cecilia his wife 3 messuages with land in Bawtres. 1516 MICHAELMAS TERM, 8 HENRY VIII. … and of a rental of 1 ? of pepper, 1 ? of cumin, 1 pair of gold spurs, and 1 knife of the value of 1 penny, free fishing …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… * Nicholas Fayrffax, kt. Thomas Thwaite, esq. 7 Messuages with lands in Folyfate. ** William Paulett, K.G., Marquis of … Wylton Manor of Spaunton and 30 messuages and 30 cottages with lands there and in Appleton, Hutton, Dowthwatdale, … and a rental of 13 s 4 d, 1lb of pepper, and 1 pair of gold spurs in Gargreve and Beamesley, which, after the death …